We have several pages on this site about Cartoon Voices and on most of them, I say
something like…
Please do not send me voice demos or requests to hear your samples or to hire you or to refer you to an agent. I get way too much of this and have had to vow never to hire or refer anyone who approaches me this way.
That's pretty straight-forward but for some reason, I get about six e-mails a week that say something like this actual example…
Hi. I can do dozens of great voices and have always dreamed of becoming a cartoon voice actor like Mel Blanc. Can you give me a job or help me to get one?
These messages always leave me a bit puzzled: Did this person read this site? If I'd always dreamed of doing something like that, I'd search out and devour every available nugget of info I could find. But perhaps they didn't bother to look. I get an awful lot of e-mail from people asking me trivia-type questions that they could have answered for themselves with a twenty second visit to any good search engine. Many people do not seem to realize that the Internet is a tool to do your own research, rather than to merely e-mail someone else to see if they can give you a fast reply.
Or perhaps they did read the articles here and thought, "Hmm…that sounds too hard. I'll just ignore that and see if there's an easier way. What have I got to lose?" That's one of the downsides when a means of communication, like the Internet, becomes too easy. It doesn't cost anything to send out a zillion e-mails to strangers, asking if they'll send you their bank account numbers. It doesn't cost anything to write to strangers and ask if they'll make your dream come true. It's kind of like buying a lottery ticket because it makes you feel better to be "doing something" to change your life — but deep down, if you're at all honest with yourself, you know you're not going to win and that it's not a substitute for taking real steps.
Either way, I've decided to stop taking those e-mails seriously, and to stop presuming that those folks are really serious. Maybe someday, some of them will be. Until that time, I'm not going to allow them to bother me, any more that I'm bothered by all those messages from beautiful Russian women who want to marry me. I figure the success ratio is about the same.