Getting a lot of “mirage” gigs the past few weeks. Creative Resource Manager contacts me and my partner to check avails for specific project, stating brand and scope. Then, as fast as it materialized, it disappears. Makes me wonder, is false hope better than no hope?

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I’ve gotten plenty of these. One of them actually eventually materialized into a three-month contract. It’s not what you’re after, but it IS a sign that CRMs are thinking of you when they’re thinking of work they need to staff for.

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Wait, people are contacting you?

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Super barely.

This is happening to me as well. And I never worked anywhere half as good as W+K. Also wanted to say I think people who reach out to creatives about gigs, then disappear/ghost my follow up emails are absolutely low class D’s. Like, did your parents not teach you that it’s ignorant to just ignore someone you started a conversation with? It takes less than a second to say, “Plans changed.”

If you are ghosting after you dangled rent money to someone who’s out of work, and you are reading this let me just say, eat a D. You are gross.

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Summer is slower in general from what I hear from all my freelance friends. I think it’s just that time of year. But if they’re reaching out eventually something will land!

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Same. Appears and then disappears. Usually resourcing is solved “internally”.

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Been happening to me a lot too

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