Add other things you need to do, like homework and applying for jobs. And consider the fact that thirty minutes of undivided attention with your kids beats an hour spent with them when you’re distracted by screens.Ĭreate a schedule that includes “must dos” and due dates. For example, try lunch instead of dinner with friends. Focus your time and energy on what’s most important to you and what has hard deadlines. There is a difference between what you need to get done versus what you want to get done. They’ve synthesized seven strategies to help with our juggling act. Cathy Francois is a single mom, Assistant Director of Career Programming at UMUC, UMUC adjunct faculty, and an entrepreneur who finished her MBA while working full-time and job hunting. Brian Booth is a husband, father in a two career household, Vice Dean at UMUC, and a UMUC faculty member. Tamar Thorne ‘07, ‘18 is a wife, mother, employee benefits representative, and recent MBA graduate. For this reason, when I sat down to right this piece, I decided to draw on the insights of three of our own. We’re balancing school and sometimes job searches. We aren’t just balancing work and family. If you liked this, please read our other reviews here and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter or Instagram or like us on Facebook.Lifestyle experts have great tips, but most don’t understand our UMUC community. Ultimately, if you can tolerate the characters, you may tolerate the film but it definitely doesn’t make it easy. Overall, this was an unbearable comedy with an overreliance on the offensive and no redeeming qualities whatsoever about a pair of unlikable and despicable idiots who do nothing but curse at each other for 80+ minutes.
Abrams and Pirie’s commitment to the horrendous material is commendable and their chemistry was actually decent but it didn’t matter as they were both unfunny and a pain to watch. In terms of other characters to help balance out the despicability, the film was lacking, offering only those who did nothing more than roll their eyes at Owen and Lacie and enabled their questionable behavior which often went too far and was not followed by any consequences whatsoever.īecause of the horrendous material here, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the acting wasn’t all that great. Though the point maybe was to not give them a happy ending, the film offered very little in the way of character development, leading one to wonder about the point of it all.
One would hope that with such despicable characters that the story would try to redeem them somehow but that of course didn’t happen. All the characters seemed to do was just drop f-bombs at each other. However, none of it worked because its overreliance on the offensive simply wasn’t funny. What was surely supposed to be funny was that the fact that they were both so lazy and misguided that they kept finding themselves in trouble. The story followed a drunk named Owen (Abrams) and a drug addict hooker named Lacie (Pirie) who did everything wrong while trying to scrounge for money to pay for bus tickets to leave the town that has done them both wrong. The film’s title, The Go-Getters, was intentionally ironic since these “Go-Getters’ didn’t go get anything as much as they tried. The sheer despicability of the characters on screen made this film often unbearable and a chore to watch, making an 80 minute running time feel much longer. Suffice it to say, this was nowhere near the case with this film as its characters are its downfall. They can’t be too over-the-top and they still have to be likeable and relatable enough to care about them. These types of films live or die on the characters themselves. Oddball comedies are a subgenre of comedy where strange or eccentric characters do outrageous things for comedic effect.
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