There’s far too many athletes and rock stars, who share the lack of education and business acumen to handle money or manage themselves as a business.
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The sad thing is that many of these individuals , through their “agents” sign fabulous contracts that purportedly will earn them tremendous fortunes….only to wake up from the ether and discover that they don’t have a dime to call their own.
Unscrupulous agents, managers, and their “posse” have spent, or stolen, it all.
There once was a job called “first reader” who read unsolicited manuscripts for possible publication. Publishers decided to make the author pay for that by requiring an agent to do it before considering a work. I wrote a book before that policy and could be my own agent. It did fairly well, two book clubs, two editions, and became their in-house expert on the subject, even asked to double-check Hemingway! But I can’t get them to consider a third edition without an agent who would do nothing I haven’t done myself in the increasingly distant past.
Linguist over 7 years ago
Great avatar for an agent !
Kalkkuna over 7 years ago
Agents earn their fees. Compare what $$$ you get without them to what they get for you. A necessary ‘evil’, methinks.
Linguist over 7 years ago
@Roger4336
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Roger, you’re correct.
There’s far too many athletes and rock stars, who share the lack of education and business acumen to handle money or manage themselves as a business.
.
The sad thing is that many of these individuals , through their “agents” sign fabulous contracts that purportedly will earn them tremendous fortunes….only to wake up from the ether and discover that they don’t have a dime to call their own.
Unscrupulous agents, managers, and their “posse” have spent, or stolen, it all.
hippogriff over 7 years ago
There once was a job called “first reader” who read unsolicited manuscripts for possible publication. Publishers decided to make the author pay for that by requiring an agent to do it before considering a work. I wrote a book before that policy and could be my own agent. It did fairly well, two book clubs, two editions, and became their in-house expert on the subject, even asked to double-check Hemingway! But I can’t get them to consider a third edition without an agent who would do nothing I haven’t done myself in the increasingly distant past.