After searching for months, you finally landed an assistant job. While you were excited to start a week ago, the first day is tomorrow, and now you feel clueless and apprehensive. You know you are going to make mistakes, and now your worries keep you up at night. Cut it out! The key with any job is to make the right kind of mistakes—mistakes that will allow you to learn and grow rather than look like an idiot. To that end, there are some simple Do's and Don'ts that will help you both on your first day and in the long run.

One of the best things about summer in Los Angeles is that all around the city, nearly every day of the week, someone is treating you to awesome live music in the great outdoors for FREE. From local indie bands to big acts, world music to jazz to Latin to country/Americana, there is definitely something you'll like at a price you can afford: FREE. Did we say FREE? Yeah, all these concerts are FREE. Check the BrokeLA.com calendar to see what's going on today. Now go listen!

Yes, that’s a joke. Celebrity stalking is illegal and also a bit silly. But, you know you're going to have friends in town this summer who will be all like "oooh, where can I see celebrities?!" Being the jaded Angeleno that you are, you will have to balance not caring with delivering the goods to the star-struck. So, we've got your list for some friendly celebrity stalking tips. And yes again, that’s Turtle from the Entourage shoot at the Farmers Market (please pay us TMZ).

Show us your…beads! In LA (and we don't mean Louisiana), there are lots of options for getting your gumbo, beignet, and celebration mask on. Slap on some feathers and head out to the fun all around town. As they say in New Orleans – Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler…Let the Good Times Roll!

It may not be a boiling hot August, but summer isn't quite over yet. For those in cubicles or coffee shops, dreams of a break should still have time for materialization. And, if a certain flight attendant is to be believed, a staycation may be just the ticket for your summer vacation time. It can save your wallet some groaning and introduce you to a whole other side of your city. Let your crackberry rest, put an away message on your work email, and get ready for a good ol' time. Right here at home.

Sometimes "I'm Sorry Officer" isn't enough. I was talking to this guy not too long ago and he was telling me about his $350+ in parking fines and how he was picking up extra hours at work to make it up. $350!! That's not small change. In some places, you could get ticketed and then towed immediately, putting you out a wad of cash and out of a car. Tickets can happen to anyone, but there are steps you can take to minimize the likelihood of it happening to you, and save yourself money and headaches in the process.

Los Angeles is the home of the movies. So why's it always gotta be so darn expensive to go out to one? Well, it doesn't. We've already discussed ways to watch movies at home and some ideas to get in for cheaper. Here's a fairly exhaustive list of discount movie theaters in the greater LA area. None of these theaters will cost you more than $10 to see a movie — ever. In general, the theaters that are more than $7 are first-run theaters (meaning they show movies currently in wide release), and the cheaper ones are second-run theaters (meaning they get the movies some time after their initial opening) with some getting the big movies just weeks after they open in the big theaters.