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Faizan
Before choosing a new life path, we often explore the idea in imagination. Let's imagine voice-over work. Everybody has a voice. Most want to be heard. Most are also shy about being seen. Voice-over work might appeal to many people, if they thought about it.
Does using your voice to earn money-and command a little attention-interest you? It's often just as much fun as it sounds, resembling, as it does, what we loved to do as kids. (Occasionally, it is also work.)
I started a voice-over gig at Fiverr.com after retiring from private practice psychotherapy. I wanted to improve the audio when recording video classes at home. Instead of paying $15,000 to develop my voice-over technique, I decided to freelance, learned voice work, earned $7,000, and had a grand adventure.
I became the voice of newsmen and presidents, generals and soldiers, assorted aliens and video-game voices galore! Now, I make my own video classes that incorporate what I learned by being the voice for other people's messages.
Voice recording is an easy freelance skill to deliver since our voice is a "wind instrument" that-unlike the oboe-we all practice daily. You can begin with whatever microphones and skills you find lying fallow about the home and then learn like crazy on the job. Study, while you are doing the work, is easier; concepts are more immediately relevant in this teachable moment.
Fiverr freelancers, and millions more, are earning while learning (whatever skills they want to perfect). Voicing can be as simple as reading an announcement or as limitless as the world of voice acting. For those who are part performer and partly shy, voice acting lets introverts perform while hiding.
Einstein used his famous "gedankenexperiments," or "thought experiments," to explore bold new ideas, and, since I like dropping his name, let's use a thought experiment to imagine how you might first consider doing voice work. We're just thinking out loud here. This is only a pre-test; do not adjust your mind-set. We're only "pre-preparing" for voice work.
Can you imagine using your voice as a tool? Did you ever love reading stories to someone? Have you had a seductive encounter with a microphone's power to magnify and transform your voice and, therefore, how you experience yourself? Even if you normally avoid attention, is there not some part of you that, at the least, longs to be listened to, and maybe even to perform?
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