To give you an idea of how quickly tides can turn in an industry like this, allow me to briefly describe my day.

When I went to work this morning, I was in the middle of trying to schedule not one, but TWO jobs for the next day. VO for a national TV commercial and for a radio commercial. That’s a very good day in this biz. They both wanted me to record tomorrow morning and we were trying to work that out.

The TV commercial took precedence, though, because, well, I’ll be honest, they pay more. But the TV people (go into the light, Carol Anne…) were being cagey about what time they wanted me to come in and record in the morning.  And the radio people were getting antsy because they needed me to commit  so that they could book studio time and schedule the other actor I was going to be doing the commercial with. I was in a bit of a fix, but after a while, with no word yet from the TV people, I had to do the responsible thing and tell the radio people to give up on me, that they should probably go with their second choice because I hadn’t yet heard back from the TV people. Hey, being responsible is hard sometimes.

A little later I get a call saying that the TV people decided to release me. No reason given (but then that’s how it works in this town).  I get on the horn with the radio people. Too late. I won’t be recording with them tomorrow either.

When I woke up, tomorrow was gonna be a good day. By lunch, I had lost two jobs.

But it doesn’t necessarily mean that tomorrow’s not gonna be a good day…