don’t be a $5 voice actor
If you are brand spanking new to voiceover, this post is for you.
If you have attended VO Atlanta or some other massive voiceover meeting anywhere in the world with stars in your eyes on how you are going to become a voice actor, this post is also for you.
If you are an experienced voice talent and you have or currently use Fiver as a way to get voice jobs, you have my sympathies for your difficult financial conditions but you’d be better off reading Monster.com or Indeed.com to find a new job than reading this blog post.
That ad at the top of this post, that’s a real ad.
Some young or stressed or imbecilic media producer may actually think they are getting a pro voice talent for that fee.
The voice (and no, I won’t say “talent”) doing the job for $5.00 for that producer may think they are a “professional” voice because they are getting paid.
Neither the producer nor the voice is correct.
I’ll make this brief.
The journey to becoming a professional voice talent is as unique as the person living the journey and no two journeys are exactly the same. There is no perfect way, mine included.
But every journey has universal pitfalls and $5 voiceover jobs…most any VO job in that range of pricing is less a pitfall or a pothole as it is an enormous moon crater that go so deep you cannot see the bottom.
Just follow this advice: don’t be a $5 voice actor.
I hope this helps.
