Is acting a bad career?

Is acting a bad career?

Acting is only a bad career choice if you value stability, a regular and decent paycheck and the ability to predict that you will do well in the future. Acting is much closer to bull riding as a career than any other job. Dangerous, exciting, scary, unpredictable and likely short lived.

Are most actors depressed?

Many suffer from performance anxiety and report high levels of stress arising from work-related pressures such as low income and job insecurity. Research over many years has acknowledged that those drawn to working in the arts tend to be highly vulnerable to depression and anxiety.

Why do actors get depressed?

Many suffer from performance anxiety and report high levels of stress arising from work-related pressures such as low income and job insecurity. Research over many years has acknowledged that those drawn to working in the arts tend to be highly vulnerable to depression and anxiety.

What are the odds of becoming a famous actor?

1 in 110,501. Overall your chances of becoming famous at all – or famous enough to be included in E-Poll's database (which includes, as near as I can tell, everyone who has ever appeared on VH1 and Bret Easton Ellis) – is: 1 in 62,986.

What are the odds of becoming famous?

But with it, we can "at least get a hint of understanding," as Arbesman puts it, of just how common fame is in the world. He then runs the numbers: Divide the "famous-people" count by the global population (7,059,837,187) and you get 0.000086, or 0.0086 percent.