Please_Pass_The_Milk

She's not publishing peer-reviewed research articles, or even thinkpieces that passed by a professional editor. She's literally making blog posts on Medium. None of this has passed any sort of scrutiny at all. In the excerpt about the wage gap she says that women choose lower-paying jobs because they prefer them, then wanders off without looking at the reasons why. Shame, too, because that's a deep, rich vein that researchers have been going at for literally five decades with religious fervor with no end in sight, and none of the answers that they've come up with have anything to do with biology.

She's not "telling the truth" about anything. She's shilling a series of long-form blog posts she convinced someone to package into a book. It's low-effort, and rewarding it with comments or (christ forbid) actually purchasing the book is doing nothing but giving a charlatan what she wants.

Well he's right. The reason people like VAs need unions is to protect them from people doing exactly what you're doing, which is getting themselves entirely ripped off and suffocating the industry while they do it. Your talent is worth more than you're getting paid, and the reason you're not getting paid is because you're negotiating with entities bigger than yourself who get to set the direction of the conversation. The longer you do things like this for free or cheap, the less and less your talents are worth. It's a market, and you're pricing yourself out of living off it. That's your choice. But recognize that your choice hurts everyone in the industry, and they'd be right to be upset.

You're perpetuating your own problem, though. Instead of building an academic portfolio of voices you can do and examples of you dubbing over voices in established productions, you've chosen to make this weird "bottom feeder" portfolio of jobs that the unions "won't touch" in order to prove what? That you consider yourself beneath a union VA? And at the same time, you're shrinking the market for the legitimate, well-compensated union VA work that you're looking to break into.

By the way, your Ford commercial line is a complete strawman. Small-time VAs in unions do work for local businesses all the time. Ford didn't hire Denis Leary because they wanted a voice actor, ford hired Denis Leary because they wanted Denis Leary. Denis Leary is an actor and comedian who has established himself as a certain archetype, and his name means something. A VA without enough acting experience to have a public profile can't compete against that ever. Stop comparing yourself to professional actors doing VA as a side job or a career end-of-life and you'll do much better.

Source: I did voice work in college and was a journeyman member of a Voice Actors' Guild. I didn't make much money but I bet I made more than you do.

It's literally a series of long-form blogposts and it's published by HarperCollins' HarperCollins Leadership imprint, which puts out whatever drivel a person wants to vomit onto a page, so long as that person has held a leadership position in an "influential" company in the recent past and their drivel passes the very low bar of being considered "inspirational". It's a fast-publish route with little editorial review, intended to fill the clearance rack at Barnes And Nobles in 6 months.

Holy shit no it's not. Every metro train system I've been on in the entire East coast has a method for on-board upgrade purchase.