Field Trip

Took an "abroad" day to visit and schmooze with clients today. I had to drop my car off at the mechanic's for a tune-up first thing this morning. My mechanic's in Hollywood, so I got a rental and took it to my company's Anaheim client for the first schmooze of the day. The only thing worse than having to drive from LA to Anaheim is having to drive from LA to Anaheim in the rain. LA drivers are amazing… instant morons, just add water!

But it's always a nice break from the office grind. It gets me out and it's always good for company-client relations to show a face now and again. Which makes no sense to me... I don't care if I see my vendors, as long as I get proper service. But I'm not complaining -- if I plan the day right, I can be done with meetings by about one o'clock, and since one of the major accounts is 60 miles from the office, I can take the rest of the day "fighting traffic" and sneak in a little shopping or get my nails done.

So right now I'm sitting at a bar table at PF Changs in the Beverly Center, eating my combo fried rice with a nice lemon-drop martini, and writing this blog on my PDA. It's about 2:05 in the afternoon.

Later today, I have an audition for a national infomercial, but that's not until 5:30, so I have a few hours to kill in the meantime. I figured I could do some early Christmas shopping done. The audition's only a few blocks away.

On Friday morning I'm scheduled for a voiceover recording session in West Hollywood from 10 until noon, which means I won't be in the office until after lunch. It’s weird – I’ll make more in the two-hour VO session than I do in a whole week at my day job. I haven’t quite gotten used to that – not that I’m complaining, mind you… but it’s just strange to me to make that kind of money for doing something that I always found to be relatively easy. I was always the one that liked reading aloud in class. Although I have learned that makes me rather unique. Now, if I could only keep the VO jobs coming in consistently…

I have a demo script in the works so I can record a voiceover demo specifically to send to agents. It’s ridiculous that I haven’t been able to garner any real agency interest yet. I mean, earned about $20,000 in the first eight months of 2005 just doing voiceovers. If I can earn that much in eight months, working at VO part time, without representation (all of those were job I got from self-submissions), WHILE holding down a full-time day job, wow… just think what I could go with the right agent and the opportunity to work at VO full time! I would think that some agent out there wouldn’t mind 10% of that, you know?