Nolan North has strong words for striking voice actors

[COKTOE]

binary solo said:

COKTOE said:

Street jockeys earn $50/hour for background chatter in my town. Bare minimum. It's a lucrative field. It's like getting paid to fart into a jar. I know people in this insustry. And I use the term industry lightly.

Yet they may only work for half a year or less. Meaning their annual income is actually quite low. People think being paid $100 per hour is creaming it. But it seems people think these actors are working 40hrs/week 48 weeks a year on contracts that have health insurance, sick leave, annual leave etc etc. But that is not the case. Most of the time the contracts are very bare bones with no or very few benefits.

It appears you might know people in the industry, but you seem to have little understanding of the industry. You certainly seem to place no valuon the inputs of the industry, and yet people seem to value the outputs of this industry to a very high degree. Some people spend the majority of their leisure time consuming (andf paying for) the outputs of this industry, yet for some odd reason they don't think this industry has any merit. Very strange.

If you can't get full time work as a voice actor, look into something else. Seriously. If you can get by on it solely, Bob's you're uncle. The very idea that this would be somebody's "end all be all " is absurd. If you have any work in this field, you've won the job lottery.