Keys To a Longer Career In Entertainment

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As a Musician, DJ,Presenter,or comedian you need to stay relevant in order to keep your fans happy and to also get new fans in addition.

Here are some of the key factors that would keep you relevant in the game as an entertainer.

Keys To a Longer Career In Entertainment.

1. Talent - As much as people like to joke about various people within the industry being untalented, the simple fact is that if you want a long career, you have to be talented. Often to an extreme degree. The entertainment industry is flooded with people wanting to make it and there’ll always be hundreds (occasionally even thousands) of people running after a job. Being untalented may make you a novelty but that will burn out incredibly quickly.
2. Reliability - No one wants to work with someone who is “difficult”. Essentially, and especially when you’re starting out, you need to be polite, punctual and generally on the ball as much as is humanly possible. The thing about the entertainment industry is that everyone has a connection to someone and people generally aren’t afraid to candidly discuss the folks they’re working with - the good and the bad. If you are at all unprofessional, word will get out and it will make your life and career advancement a lot harder than it needed to have been. Speaking of which…
3. Networking - Networking is the single most important thing you can do in the entertainment industry. Bar none. As I said before, there are always a lot of people chasing very few jobs, so naturally knowing someone in charge of making that decision will boost your chances significantly. People tend to first turn to those they know can be trusted, and you never know who might be in a position to recommend your name to someone. One of my first professional acting jobs was down to someone who used to run a youth drama club I went to at weekends who remembered me from years beforehand. It’s incredibly hard work, especially if you’re not a natural extrovert, but it needs to be done if you want to get anywhere.
4. Skills - Picking up different (and unusual) skills is key. Ideally, you should be a “jack of all trades” and master of quite a few. Again, lots of people chasing very few jobs and skills help you to stand out. Although one thing you should absolutely not do is lie about things like this (and I mean the “saying you can do professional ballet when you have no idea what a plié is” level of lying, not just “I played the guitar as a kid, haven’t touched one in 10 years so I’ll say I can play the guitar”), unless you’re prepared to potentially work as fast as possible to learn to do what you said you could. It comes back to reliability.
5. Luck (and resilience in the absence of it) - Honestly, you could do all these things and not really get anywhere. The entertainment industry, more than any other, relies on luck. Speeches at award ceremonies are always filled with variations of “I’m so lucky to be here” and they’re not exaggerating even a little. There have been plenty of talented people who have never quite got the recognition they deserved because someone else happened to beat them out at that audition, or they had the wrong hair colour or they were a bit too short or too tall or their voice wasn’t “pleasant” enough. You need an incredible amount of luck to get even a single job at any given time. And when you keep getting knocked back, you will feel like quitting. The majority of success stories you can think of in the entertainment industry will have had potentially years of failure behind it. The important thing is to keep going.