When Pay Does Become A Factor
Jul 9th, 2009 by Alan Yu
Recently I was asked by my agency if I wanted to do some simple background work for an upcoming movie. It would be pretty demanding too as they wanted people for about 2 full weeks. The hours were pretty gruesome it seemed such as some of them starting at like 4am and the travel time would take about 40 minutes with a car. As well, some of the scenes required some physically demanding stuff.
However, unfortunately I was told that the pay scale would be the minimum bottom of the barrel pay and therefore it simply wasn’t worth it and I turned it down. My reasons were pretty simple as not only did I have to sacrifice a lot potentially to be there for minimum pay, but opportunity wise it’s not like this was anything that would greatly help my acting ambitions.
So the bottom line, if I don’t feel it is something that I would be passionate in doing with the opportunity being more “I just need bodies” type of arrangement, it comes down to the money as that is the only real reason why I would do the work. Even I have my personal limitations.
