So a month after I turned 18, i got hired to write an audio drama for this company called Headfone. Thing is, they had like a ton of stipulations. It could only be so many episodes long, no child characters, they couldn't make guitar sounds or anything in the dramas.

So the seires I was originally planning got swapped for a comedy I wrote called "Lion Proof."

No biggie right? it's still a great story, a hilarious plot with fun characters.

Accept the producer was kind of mean and seemed to dislike answering my questions, the actors (which i selected myself from their archive) all had inconsistent audio qualities, and I was only allowed to give them two corrections per episode, regardless of whether they actually followed my script prompt at all. (which two actors didn't) and there was nothing i could do to correct it, they just said I had to accept it that way. On top of that, they deemed my series completed before i even got to hear it, so I didn't even get the final word.

Put on top of it all that I had to market it myself, because the ONLY marketing they did was making a post about it on LinkedIn, and the series seriously bombed.

Zero subscribers, 1 like. And I made no money whatsoever off of all my work.

That being said, it was a learning experience, definitely. I think most people would agree that first jobs aren't great, so all and all, at least it only lasted a few months, and I still own a pretty fire script I can use for something else someday.

This is the series if anyone's curious:

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