"You will audition more than you will work."

These are some of the things I've heard over and over.

I thought to myself, "Oh no problem, I can handle that." What I didn't expect was to be rejected from the audition before ever getting to it.

I have an agent who has sent me out one time in six months. Albeit, it was for a national beer commercial. However, being amongst one of the few auditions I've ever been to in my life, I did not get called back. This was expected.

I called my agent to ask him what was going on. His words were, "You're pictures are weak. That's why you're not getting called in."

Ok. My pictures are not that bad, if I must say so myself. I think he's not even sending my pictures out at all. I think he's just working for all of the models he represents who make him money already.

So, I took my fourth set of headshots this last week. Guess what? They're great. Not to sound egotistical, but if these pictures don't get me into auditions then I'll know for a fact that I have a terrible agent. I am already planning on looking for a new one. I don't have time to wait around for some lazy agent, who doesn't care about my career.

I must make it myself. No one is going to do it for me.

This is my new plan of attack: find a new agent, crash commercial auditions and continue to submit myself to Backstage West castings (the L.A. acting newspaper).