MrVilliam

My wife has been a huge fan of the product ever since taking a chance on it to work on heavily used sheet pans and pots a couple of years ago. We thought they were just permanently blackened, but nope! My wife is in her mid 20's and helps spread the word about the miracle product that is BKF. Occasionally she thinks something is too far gone and tries BKF just to do her due diligence and it just keeps surprising us! Please don't change the formula to cut costs and make it shitty like every other product seems to wind up doing!

We thought it was getting real when Burger King revealed itself as a formidable opponent to McDonald's. Then Taco Bell and KFC joined forces in some locations. Checkers offered the grease and the pepper like no other. Wendy's attacked frozen patties and launched a social media marketing apparatus like no other.

Then CFA arrived to tell the world that there's a new game in town and it's damn good chicken. They built an empire. Eventually, through homophobia and a refusal to serve on Sundays, a weakness was exploited. Popeye's, with superior seasoning and the most inconsistent customer service in history, decided to strike against CFA. Open on Sundays and armed with herbs and spices, they provided the proper chicken sandwich. This moment will be in history books as the moment The Restaurant Wars truly began. I know not what comes next, but somehow, Taco Bell will reign supreme. And John Spartan will defeat Simon Phoenix in foreshadowed yet gruesome fashion.

Oh yeah, while this epic battle on the figurative playground has been playing out, Arby's has been licking sand since the beginning, claiming that their terrible roast beef is what people want. I like to imagine Ralph Wiggum giggling then exclaiming "we have the meats"

Ruth didn't.

For a very long time, when asked what I would do if I had a billion dollars, I've said that I'd build a studio and do Foley work for very cheap for aspiring story-tellers. It's always seemed like something that would be both challenging and fun, yet productive. I've never thought it could be particularly lucrative though, so I never really attempted that career path. So, I have a few questions for you since you do this professionally:

What is a reasonable pay range one would expect per year?
How many hours per week would be expected for that pay?
How stable is the income? I know it depends on a lot of factors, but do a lot of Foley artists routinely have anxiety about budgeting? Or is it more of a situation where an artist is typically employed by a company and has assignments with deadlines?
How much creative license do you generally get?

Not OP but I would assume bare minimum would include a decent computer, decent audio software (Audacity is open source), decent microphone (Blue Yeti is probably one of the best for its price range and user friendliness), and a quiet space where reverb and outside sounds can be eliminated or at least dampened. But maybe it can be done with less, using a smart phone and maybe there's a decent mic that's compatible with your phone hardware and software, but audio mixing and editing is complicated enough with the control of a mouse and keyboard, so idk how being limited to a phone could possibly produce a good output without being very unwieldy.