To many actors, bars, restaurants, and call centers hold attractive part-time employment possibilities due to their flexibility when it comes to swapping shifts for last-minute auditions. There’s also personal training, doctor-patient role play, karaoke and trivia nights, promo events, and a raft of other alternatives that appeal for similar reasons. But the thing is, they all suffer the same downside.
In his best-selling book, ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’, Robert T. Kiyosaki explains that people often struggle to get ahead because they swap their time for money, meaning that if the only way to make more money is to work longer hours, you inevitably run out of workable hours, leaving you with an impenetrable income ceiling (not to mention a heart attack or nervous breakdown).
An actor requires as much available time as possible in order to study, audition, and work as an actor. Being stuck behind a bar or the steering wheel of a vehicle is not even really a survival job, it’s a suffocation job, slowly sapping you of your energy and, sadly, your passion.
From my years of research into revenue-generation for artists, an online business that can be operated from anywhere in one’s own time is the absolute
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