Want to live like a celebrity, even if only for a day? Celeb 4 A Day makes it possible for you to live like the stars, by providing you with a personal paparazzi service that puts your face on the cover of a faux magazine. While their services are available to just about anyone, they market themselves primarily to D-List celebrities, entertainers or bands looking to boost their publicity at a public event. After all, if you’re being followed by cameras , you must be someone big, right? Well…no, but that’s what they want the public to think.

Currently Celeb 4 A Day’s paparazzi experience services are US based and available only in Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Each city offers a slightly different package, ranging from $299 – $1499 (plus tax!). No one ever said it was cost-effective to live like the rich and famous.

The cheapest package provides you with four personal paparazzi to greet you at the location or event of your choice and up to 30 minutes one-on-one time where you will be plagued with questions prying into your personal life, hear your name shouted into the streets and let’s not forget about the high-gloss photo that will appear on the cover of their MyStar magazine (not published, for your enjoyment only!)

If you’re willing to dish out the dough for the pricey MegaStar package, two more paparazzi are thrown into the deal, you have a limo at your disposal, receive a CD with all photos taken by your photography vultures (no matter how unflattering), a bodyguard to fend off your adoring public, and 2 full hours of personal paparazzi treatment. And, just incase their questions get out of line, they even give you a publicist that will field their questions on your behalf.

Finally, if it’s only the luxurious celebrity lifestyle you seek, you will have to get that charge card ready to have access to their $22,000 (plus tax) all-inclusive vacation for three, for just four nights in paradise. No consumers, I didn’t accidentally add a few extra zeroes onto that price; but what a profit!

In order to make an intelligent decision about acting as a way to spend your life, do the research. Its a shame they only write biographies on the successful actors, when in fact it would be much more instructive to talk about all those actors who never made a dime in the business. Because the public is only exposed to star actors’ lives, most people have the idea that that is the lifestyle of any actor.

Acting is a profession. And any profession requires a big commitment. Years of study. Years of struggle. If your family is very wealthy then that might not be much of a sacrifice, but the real challenge is not just doing without money, its doing without validation.

When your life is spent mostly with people saying: “No, Thank you.” all the time, it takes effort to stay positive. Psychologists tell us that we get our picture of ourselves from work. In that case, if you are not working, its hard to get a valid sense of self.

The reality is that every actor spends more time unemployed than employed and that his real job is looking for work. Stardom is, after all, only unemployment at a higher rate of pay. The actor’s life is grueling. For a long time, you may not be able to have a life other than pursuing work and when you finally do get work, you will work and pursue your next job at the same time.

Choice of career is not just the choice of ones nine-to-five endeavor, but the choice of lifestyle. Within the instability of the actors life, it is difficult to plan for children, vacations, illness, and other life necessities, luxuries or surprises.

When you are unemployed, its difficult not to be depressed;when you are working, there’s little time for a mate and family. If however you are able to get out of yourself, you will realise that family and mates will be there for you when management wont. You’ll be able to enjoy what some might call the downside of your lifestyle.

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