Would you let me perform your surgery without proper training?
Last week, we got a phone call from someone who wants to "change careers and work in voiceover." Great! We'd love to be a part of your VO journey. We train a lot of actors and voice actors from all walks of life and many have gone to have very successful careers. As we explain the basic process (a question we get asked a lot everyday), the caller very adamantly exclaims that they have no interest in training and would like to start auditioning right away and working. This is the moment where we stifle a laugh and ask for a demo or some sort of voice sample so we can hear their voice and skill level so if they seem competitive and we have something come through that they'd be right for, we can invite them to audition for us. The caller then states they "don't know what a demo is" and proceeds to ask us to describe a VO demo so they can make one to send to us. Oh boy. There are several things in this conversation that are unsettling (and to some, maybe e...