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so story time i want to tell you guys why i got dropped by one of my modern agencies
and hopefully you guys can learn from uh the mistake that i made um the miscommunication
that led to me getting dropped and you know you guys can avoid some of those things as well i'm
currently represented and signed to a different modeling agency now but this is a modeling agency
that i was working with in the past that ended up dropping me i want to tell you guys what happened
all right guys so long story short um so when i first moved to los angeles this was one of
the first modeling agencies that i applied to and they responded to me um they were a
commercial print modeling agency and also they sent me out on commercial auditions as an actor
as well and that was one of my appeal to this agency was that they were able to send me for
castings for films television and tv commercials and also send me for modeling auditions as well
and this was great because i actually did some work with this agency i booked a couple of gigs
here and there and things were going well however i've talked a lot about having a flexible schedule
as a model and when i first came to la of course i needed to keep up with my day job right my day
job was consuming most of my life i was doing a lot of driving and having to sit in traffic for
hours just to get to work and sit in traffic for hours to get back from work was was very daunting
right so i didn't really have the flexibility as i would like to to leave work attend the cast in
grunt on audition go to go see and then go back to work and pretend like hey nothing happened
and because my job was such in a remote location it was far away from the city
so if i had to go to an audition or go to a cast in there was no way for me to take um to do
that during my lunch break right because just to leave my job go to the casting during lunch break
and then come back to work that's already two hours gone right so of course i had to use my
vacation time i used up all of my vacation times to make castings to make bookings etc and my
agents at the time she started to notice that hey Francis isn't as available as we would like right
and here's the thing some agencies are willing to work around your schedule some agencies are
understanding if you communicate like hey i have this job or i'm in school and you know
attending all of these castings and go sees regularly is not going to be a priority
my priority is really in school and my job right now some agents are understanding
to this but however some other agents are not at all they want you to almost
fear them right so they it's like they almost kind of use like an intimidation tactics like hey
if you don't make this cast in your career is done you're not going to make it
or if you don't make this cast and if you don't make this job we're going to drop you so they
want you to feel intimidated and feel like you have no choice but to make it and a lot of times
like i said the jobs kind of come sporadically being in this industry is all about an opportunity
if you're not available for that opportunity you missed it someone else is gonna take that
opportunity from you long story short a friend of mine was getting married and i
was one of the gross man for this wedding i put in my book house dates with the agency
long before the wedding dates however coming close to that wedding dates the agency let me know
hey francis this client loves you and they booked you for this job on this date and guess what it
was a day of the wedding and there was no way i was going to miss the wedding that would not have
been cool to miss a big day such an important day of one of my good friends so i told the agent like
hey look i would love to do it but i did put in my book out today so that was unavailable
so i shouldn't have been considered for this job at all and then she sent me a very
hostile text message and the reason i say it's hostile is because she put them in all caps
right almost like she was yelling so she says francis i cannot have you cancel this book in
this is one of our top clients and a lot of models would love to get this opportunity
if you cancel this book in i don't know if we can keep you on our board
so she did send that and even after i communicated with her that hey i'm going to be out on these
dates before the book in there was no way i was going to miss my friend's wedding because again
yes this is an opportunity of a lifetime a lot of models would love to get booked for
something like this but also getting married was also a once in a lifetime thing right and if i
wasn't there for my friend to attend the wedding i don't know how that would have impacted our
relationship moving forward so i did decide to attend the wedding and miss out on the bookend
i apologized um of course she was extremely disappointed but she did not drop me then but
after that i felt that there was a lot of tension between the two of us in the way we communicated
which ultimately led to this agent dropping me all right so fast forward a couple of months later
so what happened with this agency is that they actually had new bookers come into the agents
to work for the agent and they were requiring that all of the models schedule some time to come into
the office and meet this new uh the new bookers and the new agents and to reintroduce themselves
or whatever right and at the time my job was extremely hectic and i honestly did not prioritize
uh scheduling an appointment to go into the agency to meet the new bookers and i was so focused on um
one you know getting settled in los angeles because i had just moved to l.a at the time and
two performing well at my job so that i could make a living right so because of that the agent was
frustrated with me and sent me this email francis i'm writing to inform you that your contract is
expired there is an entirely new staff here which i don't believe you've had the time to meet we
are not interested in renewing your contract our archive you on our end and release you from our
la casting roster please confirm you receive this email thank you and have a nice weekend
so essentially what they were saying was that francis you've been dropped we don't want to work
with you anymore and we're releasing you so i then responded thanks for letting me know and thank you
guys for giving me the opportunity to work and that was all i said so basically this is why i
got dropped by this particular agency was that one i missed out on a booking because i had to attend
a wedding and secondly i just didn't prioritize uh modeling at the time because i had so many
things going on in my life and i had to focus on work and they sensed that and they said hey you
know you're not you're not willing to work you're not willing to take the time to come meet with us
so we're dropping you so i hope you guys can draw something from this experience that i had again
this is in the past and i'm currently represented by a different agency um if you guys have any
questions about this story drop them in the comment box i'd love to hear from you guys if you
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