VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Bruce]

Here's a story for you:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/24/millennial-quit-job-moved-into-bus-makes-money-as-voiceover-artist.html

Yes but, making $15,000 per month with 181 jobs? That comes out to less than $83 per gig.

Here's her YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbskEDUMALhx3FiPGFRljeg

There's more than one way!

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VO-BB Member #31 Enlisted June, 2005

I'm not a Zoo, but over the years I've played one on radio/TV. .

[Philip Banks]

When I first started one of the main jobs for a "Jobbing Voiceover" was to get in the car and travel to local commercial radio stations around the UK. In the Midlands one of the stations had a production dept called "That'll do Productions". In our business at the sharp end for most customers "That'll do" is good enough! One regular trip for me was to Pirate FM in Cornwall, 300 mile round trip. In 1992 the union rate per script for Pirate FM was £13.75 and a tag change attracted the full fee. My session including tags amounted to 26 scripts or £357.50 which, adjusted for inflation, now would be £891 or north of $1,000. Hoorah! Was I a great talent who paid it forwards? Did the craft honor me like an honored thing? Was I trained by the best of the best of the best? NO! Commercial producers heard my work and concluded.

"That'll do!"

Will I continue to honor the profession and master my craft? No, never did and it was never my plan. Just trying to pay the bills a bit like a girl in a School Bus somewhere in ...

[melissa eX]

Updated article - this is getting more traction:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/02/millennial-quit-her-job-works-less-for-more-money-as-voiceover-artist.html?fbclid=IwAR171RJV7Jdq4e6Eb2xW4y4cUeo7YgNxaAjXaRRlkovgHj_Pn6fnXviA1tM

So she was a news producer at MSNBC. That had to have helped. She knew her way around an adjacent industry - and she had contacts.

[Philip Banks]

A bit like all the kids who made it in the IT revolution; they all started with nothing except a Harvard degree, connections and a trust fund.

Most VO people start with nothing and stay there, if they're lucky.

[todd ellis]

i started with nothing and still have most of it!
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[Philip Banks]

Got change for a Zero?

[Lee Gordon]

Sure. You want two fives and a minus ten, or two threes and a minus six?
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[Mandy Nelson]