Michael K. - Is the ratio of professionals to available work as bad as that? (I am asking this from the position of someone who was in the theatre for awhile, another really stable career profession (!) and saw that it was total hell, and got out). In the theatre world, there are many people who are at least as good as the people who are getting paid, meagerly, for what they do; and way more people in the business than the tiny number of superstars. But a really good actor who perseveres will be able to find work: it gets harder as you get older, and it gets really bad for women, but if you have a track record, you can still find work for a long time. There are lots of journeymen actors around. But there are hundreds of hundreds of thousands of people who think they are actors, but are total crap. That is why the ratios in acting (the union, etc.) look so bad: there are thousands and thousands of people who call themselve actors who would never make it, whatever happened.

I guess you were talking about getting signed to a major record label as the sign of success for your 100 to 1 ratio. Remember I am speaking from total ignorance of the music world!!!

yours, Peter T.