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Composer/SFX for indie games Venba🍛 (sfx) All Will Rise (sfx) Thousand Hells (music) Eternights ⚔ (sfx) Six Ages 2 🌤 Playdate/Sweet Baby 🎈 Speaker du Franglais She/Her www.nehapatelaudio.com nehapatelaudio@gmail.com

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# Overcoming Rejection So… you didnt’get ge the gig you applied for. The one you dreamt about your whole life, or the one that seemed perfectly timed for your current needs. Or even the one where you had a bunch of people internally recommending you! That sucks. And it’s probably not a one time thing. how do you deal with ~~occasional~~ constant rejection? Im going to divide up the types of rejections in categories so let’s get started! Level 1: The anonymous application Level 2: The solid application Level 3: The eggs in my basket application Level 4: Dealing with it
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Calico cat with text under that says Back our kickstarter ! Billionaires yucky Make them pay
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Be very careful, even if the studio has great ‘uWu’ presence online and treat their employees great, it doesn’t mean that they’ll pay their contractors fairly. It’s scary because in those situations, you might be willing to accept their low pay thinking ‘oh but they’ll hire me again! Ooh I’ll get visibility! ‘It’s okay to give away my Steam OST royalty money, I’ll get more gigs with them later!”. Spoiler alert: It probably won’t happen. It’ll be a one time low paying gig and that’s it. Don’t be fooled by any wholesome persona or online popularity, it’s a marketing tool. Freelancing sustainably means you need to know your worth and find ways to have it be respected. I’m writing this in the context of staying healthy in the games industry for years to come. I think it’s worth saying ‘no’ to exploitative gigs so that you preserve your long-term mental and financial health. That’s why in my last newsletter, I said that it’s okay, hell encouraged, to have another stable job. Freelancing cannot immediately become a full time stable career. Your health matters more and that should be the priority when negotiating pay for your next gig.
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It’s okay to say no, even if you don’t have any gigs. It’s okay to have ‘nothing’, no gigs is better than being sick. Because that’s what exploitative contracts do to you. That is the invisible and sometimes, delayed cost of accepting bad contracts. They make you sick, mentally and financially. You might not realize it in the moment, but when it does it hit, it’ll be a quick and heavy hit. Being burnout and sick doesn’t just affect you, it affects those around you as well.