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Suzanne WynnParticipant
Yes! Thank you.
So I’m hating on f’n old white dudes with huge backing trying to tell you how to run your business.
I’m hating on voice over dipshits practically masterbating over their microphones and how expensive they are. (As they say, it’s not what you’ve got, it’s how you use it!)
And audio “pros” who doesn’t understand the importance of music, sound effects and a real end.
I’m still working on how I got around it.
Thanks, Dre.Suzanne WynnParticipantI’m having a hard time drawing the link between what pisses me off about my industry (the self-proclaimed gurus, the sleezy “ya gotta have THIS”! offers and mic snobs for example) relates to my kindred.
I get that we all hate animal cruelty, US Healthcare and overpriced jeans … but why do my kindreds care about my industry? Especially if they’re hiring me to do this for them?
What am I missing?!?!??!? 🤣😂🤪🤬Suzanne WynnParticipantOh! And what excites me is meeting those girls that are sisters from another mister. Heart sister. The ones you meet in whatever setting and just click. I’ve met them all over. I’ve met them in grocery stores. I love making them smile. I love saying “fuck” for the girl ringing up my groceries because I know she can’t. Making someone’s day makes me happy. Mrs. Fucking Rogers over here. 🤣😂
Suzanne WynnParticipantDre,
I love that someone convinced you “they” *could* be wrong. I royally pissed off a GM and a GSM when I was told them their numbers game really pissed me off. That I was already doing a FT job for them (morning radio) with sales added on. They showed me this graph of my year which I was fairly pleased with. I had ups and downs but overall, I was in the same range. Apparently in sales that’s not good. That was the year I found out about my own health issues, the year I found out my husband was an alcoholic and the year I lost my dad. AND that those PTO days I had that they were so proud to offer me was ten. Ten total days. Whether I used them on a trip to Italy or chose to sit by dad’s side, while he was in a coma, for 4 excruciating days knowing the only thing worse than losing him would be him “surviving” this. Yep, they didn’t care one bit. Fuck that, too.
I’ve made “freebie” appointments, knowing there was a sales pitch coming and willing, to an extent to buy in. It was gonna be that final piece that pushed me into business. Three times the same woman stood me up. We’d make an appt. She wouldn’t show. Never said another word. THREE TIMES!
I’ve had too many people talk in circles around me. I’d ask a specific question and get all kinds of info but none of it answered my GD question!
They wouldn’t meet me where I was – already on step 8. But they’d damn sure sell me their BETTER way to start over.
I imagine finding my people like those good days on the playground when your girl had your back. Before boys and competition messed us up. I want us all to win. I was drunk girls in the bar bathroom. Complete strangers supporting each other and sharing lipstick. (Although, for real I hate lipstick lol but I think you get me)
It would feel so damn good to know I’m NOT a weirdo. I’m not the only one. Corporate men are dicks. Corporate cares only about the bottom line no matter what they SAY. And THAT is the bottom line.
#GirlsRunTheWorld
And lastly to share, I hate I missed the meeting between those same two GMs and a coworker who led me to my pissed off point. She legit told them that a PIMP paid better than they did. She was out there, working the streets for them and gave her, under the best of circumstances, 20%. I didn’t get to be there but I did get to help her work through the initial plan. We both left sales together the end of that year and remain friends. We left the company within 6 months of each other.Suzanne WynnParticipantYaaaaaassss!!!
Suzanne WynnParticipantWell, I don’t WANT to have to do anything lol. But no one’s gonna pay me to sit on my ass and ready dark, dirty romance novels all day so 🤷♀️
I’m moving away from voiceover because I love audio. I love writing the scripts because so many people are so bad at it. It’s the part I miss from radio. I heard myself going on and on about one day and felt like a big ole nerd but also wondered why I wasn’t chasing more of it.
So…yes …until I find something else that I love that pays well lolSuzanne WynnParticipantWell, I don’t WANT to have to do anything lol. But no one’s gonna pay me to sit on my ass and ready dark, dirty romance novels all day so 🤷♀️
I’m moving away from voiceover because I love audio. I love writing the scripts because so many people are so bad at it. It’s the part I miss from radio. I heard myself going on and on about one day and felt like a big ole nerd but also wondered why I wasn’t chasing more of it.
So…yes …until I find something that I love that pays well lolSuzanne WynnParticipantIf she’s weirded out by bow-bedecked Dre, c’mon down lol.
That’s some good shit tho. I kinda wanna print it and frame it in my booth.Suzanne WynnParticipantThanks Crystal. I appreciate you. It’s definitely been rough. I lost probably my truest #1 fan but also #1 tormentor in one fell swoop. And the asshole left me alone to deal with my mom, who’s falling into Alzheimer’s.
But confidence. I’ve got that. I KNOW I’ve got that. Until I’m in a room full of people that I don’t know (or don’t know well) that I really need to chat with. Ugh. Then it’s high school feels all over.
My adhd is self-diagnosed. I don’t want to take stimulant meds because my BP is already high. So I’m slowly trying out assorted supplements. (Happy to chat privately sometime if you’d like)
Sounds like you’re definitely doing too much (IMHO) but it happens. Hopefully this is gonna help straighten and focus us both. Cheers!
Suzanne WynnParticipantOh if I’d had THIS mouth, I’d have been kicked out of school 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Thanks, Dre. 😘
Suzanne WynnParticipantI always come back to audio production. I’ve loved it ever since I learned not to be afraid of it. There’s nothing better to me than getting a few copy points from a client and getting to work my magic. Crafting the perfect script, voicing it just right…the emotions and the emphases…then adding the music and finding the PERFECT sound effects. Jeebus! Goosebumps!
But now I worry about AI. Why would you pay me to deliver what AI can do, FREE, in minutes. Additionally, that sort of audio belongs to a dying media- radio and I’m at a loss as to how to spin it. (Also, I fucking HATE podcasts and audiobooks)Suzanne WynnParticipantI second how helpful Dre’s shares are. But I also sometimes feel like a “me too!” Copycat lol. Perhaps I just wanna BE Dre? 😘
My why’s are all over the board but I’ve realized they all stem from mostly wanting to help others. I want to adopt all the dogs and All the kids. I want to retire my husband because his thankless, BS job is wearing him out mentally and physically every day and it makes me feel so helpless. Same with my mom. We’re headed down the Alzheimer’s road and I’d give anything to take she and I to Tuscany. She turned 80 in June. I’m literally on borrowed time and still $25k in debt.
But I also want to travel and have a super cute house that’s not in need of repair. I also have my own health issues so some days I ain’t getting out of bed. I need a life that respects that.
Also these 4 current rescue pets are expensive AF.
Fuck going back to working for some old dude who believes in bootstrapping things and wants to tell me what my schedule is. Also, fuck getting up at 4 am for the privilege of his paycheck.
I have numerous regrets. Mostly buying those new, shiny programs and exclusive memberships that practically guaranteed my success but really, only added to my guilt from buying things I’ll never use. And while I’m at it, fuck Mastermind groups. I didn’t do sororities in college. I sure AF don’t need one now.
Damn, that got mad. I feel like I’ve wasted so much time and money with nothing to show and still no idea what I’m doingSuzanne WynnParticipantJust getting back to this. I’ve been trying to think it through.
Confidence for me is those days where I’m at least mentally wearing black leather and kicking down brick walls. I know what I bring to the table. I’m. I’m not afraid to tell you to take it or leave nor am I afraid to tell you why my “ideas” are better than yours. I’m quite snappy but I’m usually saying it with a smile because I’m happy. I KNOW what I’m talking about and you really should listen to me.
There are a lot of “other” days tho.
I’ve been looking through my calendar looking for the “leather” days but also was reminded of what a shit 18 months I’ve had. Family illness and my brother’s untimely death.
I’m also learning that a lot of my weirdness and “laziness” is adhd and I’m trying to navigate that as a 45 year old woman.
Most of my confidence issues stem from shits at school and on the bus. And honestly, I’m a whole grown ass woman and fuck them. But sometimes I still hear it. I was and still am a fat kid. Now I wear glasses sometimes. And I have a lazy eye. None of that makes early life easier. And internet trolls…well, sometimes they’re the brick walls Leather me is kicking the fuck down. (It’s also often made of the old white dudes I’ve worked for for so long. As they say, fuck the patriarchy!”
Which all leads into my “whys” for wanting this to work so badly. -
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