Nolan North has strong words for striking voice actors

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COKTOE said:

binary solo said:

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.

Exactly.  Just because you train for something or go to school for something doesn't guarantee you a job.  It's the same for all careers.  And you definitely shouldn't think you're going to be getting similar pay or benefits of someone who has been in the business for 20+ years.  Esepecially when that person got in it when conditions were even worse and they weren't just sitting there bitching about it.  They were working their asses off to get to where they are, now.  If you get those jobs as people in the background, working a couple of hours for $200, count your blessings.  Either get another job and just continue doing VA as a side job.  Or try to prove to the higher ups you have great talent and can start doing more central characters, working weeks, instead of just a day or two.