Talent Agents in Holleywood

[fantolay]

I want to become a talent agent in HW. Obviously the career path begins being very rough and it takes a while before one can actually become an agent's assistant and eventually an agent.

I'm a little disillusioned by what I'm reading about the career though. I've read that agent salaries range from 23k to upper 80k /yr. That can't be right. At the peak of my career I'd be making 80k/yr? At a big Hollywood talent agency?

The shitty early stages one must go through to rise through the ranks are fine by me as the final job is imo exciting, but based on those numbers it doesn't seem to be truly financially rewarding.

I'm in college right now about to commit to a major(s) and think about a career path. I go to the third best small liberal arts school in the country and based on the experience of friends from this school I feel comfortable that I could go to a top 14 law school or if I majored in economics, land internships such that I could do investment banking or be an analyst for a couple years out of school and then go to business school, and then get hired by one of those firms as an associate. Obviously both of those careers become lucrative much earlier on than being a talent agent. That said, I had always thought that being a talent agent could very well be a lucrative job... I just can't find statistics to support this.

Further, do you think it would be valuable for me to go to graduate school such as law school and then try to become a talent agent? Agents have to have to be familiar with a lot of legal matters in order to negotiate the best contracts for the clients they represent... would this be something that might get me further in the door, and quicker, at a talent agency?

 

[Printer Bandit]

1) It's spelled Hollywood.
2) Watch Entourage.

 

[roguerower]

Do you want to live in LA for the rest of your life? Are you business savvy enough to even make it in the long run?

Picking careers based upon how much money you can make ALWAYS works out.

 

[fantolay]

1) It's spelled Hollywood.
2) Watch Entourage.

1) it's called a TYPO
2) GFU

 

[fantolay]

Do you want to live in LA for the rest of your life? Are you business savvy enough to even make it in the long run?

Picking careers based upon how much money you can make ALWAYS works out.

I think I would like to live in L.A. for the rest of my life.

I am business savvy.

 

[zinfamous]

1) it's called a TYPO
2) GFU

we got a live one here.



and no: Holleywood is not a typo. That's a misspelling--different concepts.

example: "teh" instead of "the" is a typo.

 

[Saint Nick]

Someone has been watching too much Entourage...

 

[fantolay]

we got a live one here.



and no: Holleywood is not a typo. That's a misspelling--different concepts.

You're right!

 

[zinfamous]

I think I would like to live in L.A. for the rest of my life.

I am business savvy.

Important question: How many scientologists are you willing to blow?

 

[fantolay]

Important question: How many scientologists are you willing to blow?

You don't have any advice to offer me and aren't constructively responding to my OP so get out of my topic.

 

[roguerower]

I think I would like to live in L.A. for the rest of my life.

I am business savvy.

Yet you are asking an online forum's membership (a forum not in any way tied to that industry) for advice.

Yea...real savvy. Go back to putting on improv shows and tattooing your feet.

 

[preslove]

OP, you should check out house inspecting instead...

 

[Dr. Detroit]

1) Become a lawyer and study contract law - intern at a agency or two while attending UCLA Law
2) Be a jew

 

[zinfamous]

You don't have any advice to offer me and aren't constructively responding to my OP so get out of my topic.

so you're professing ignorance towards the fact that you have to cozy up to scientologists to make it in Hollywood? OK, good luck with that.

but why do you claim that you could live in LA? Have you ever visited, actually lived there for some time? Or is it based on what you've seen in the movies?

 

[BoberFett]

Seems to me that if you were cut out to be an agent, you'd already be mingling with that crowd and asking them this question in stead of ATOT. Being an agent is about knowing people.

 

[fantolay]

Seems to me that if you were cut out to be an agent, you'd already be mingling with that crowd and asking them this question in stead of ATOT. Being an agent is about knowing people.

My father's best friend is a board member at United Talent Agency. I'm determining whether or not I want to have him get me an internship if this isn't a career I really want to get into. I'm not going to ask a board member at UTA about what to expect in terms of salary.

 

[fantolay]

so you're professing ignorance towards the fact that you have to cozy up to scientologists to make it in Hollywood? OK, good luck with that.

but why do you claim that you could live in LA? Have you ever visited, actually lived there for some time? Or is it based on what you've seen in the movies?

I have family in Cali close to LA who I could live with over the summer if I decided to get an internship at a talent agency there. Were you really interested in why I claimed I could live there, or are you just a dick?

 

[fantolay]

Yet you are asking an online forum's membership (a forum not in any way tied to that industry) for advice.

Yea...real savvy. Go back to putting on improv shows and tattooing your feet.

Don't worry, I'm an intelligent individual and in a position academically where the institution I go to and the network I have could place me in internships such that I could be an analyst for a couple year stint after school before going to a top tier business school where they would teach me all the business savvy I need.

Go back to doing whatever it is you do... I'm sure it isn't as good as what I'm going to do with my life.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

1) it's called a TYPO
2) GFU

No, if you hit 'u' when reaching for the 'y' it's a typo. When you stick an 'e' in between 'l' and 'y' it's a spelling error as the 'e' is NOT struck by accident. You're ignorant and a liar, congratulations, you're well on your way to fitting in as an agent.

 

[zinfamous]

I have family in Cali close to LA who I could live with over the summer if I decided to get an internship at a talent agency there. Were you really interested in why I claimed I could live there, or are you just a dick?

You'll never know!

 

[BoberFett]

My father's best friend is a board member at United Talent Agency. I'm determining whether or not I want to have him get me an internship if this isn't a career I really want to get into. I'm not going to ask a board member at UTA about what to expect in terms of salary.

Why not? Seems like the perfect resource to ask these questions.

 

[Cheesetogo]

My father's best friend is a board member at United Talent Agency. I'm determining whether or not I want to have him get me an internship if this isn't a career I really want to get into. I'm not going to ask a board member at UTA about what to expect in terms of salary.

It's unlikely that he's going to be offended or think less of you for asking that question.

 

[zinfamous]

Don't worry, I'm an intelligent individual and in a position academically where the institution I go to and the network I have could place me in internships such that I could be an analyst for a couple year stint after school before going to a top tier business school where they would teach me all the business savvy I need.

Go back to doing whatever it is you do... I'm sure it isn't as good as what I'm going to do with my life.

1: you make a lot of assumptions about how things will work out for you
2: you make a lot of assumptions regarding your own intelligence, which is, of course, your own perception
3: (bolded) spoken like a true business school worm. Hint: if you expect to "learn business" in business school, then you are wasting your time and have already failed at business. congratulations
4: You're a bit of a dick. So, I don't know....you might make a decent agent.

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[roguerower]

Don't worry, I'm an intelligent individual and in a position academically where the institution I go to and the network I have could place me in internships such that I could be an analyst for a couple year stint after school before going to a top tier business school where they would teach me all the business savvy I need.

Go back to doing whatever it is you do... I'm sure it isn't as good as what I'm going to do with my life.

Wow. First you ask for advice, then you insult people when it isn't what you want to hear. Does your arrogance have no bounds and how does your head fit through a standard door frame? Which institution is this? Why aren't you consulting this "network"?

It's funny how a lot of people who are taught to be "business savvy" have no fucking clue how business is actually run.

And as for what I do...let's see, I've ALREADY graduated from a top ranked construction management school, I ALREADY have a job at a Top 25 construction management company right out of school in a depressed industry, and I DIDN'T have to use my daddy's best friend to get there.

You on the other hand are a little pissant who hasn't even chosen a major or degree but looks down on those who are successful and seems to think that the only way to succeed is riding on other people's coat-tails. You'll do well because you'll shove your nose up someone else's ass and take credit for other people's work.