I am booked at an agency that is filled with toxic people and I got offered a freelance job at a really great agency. I am two weeks into a four week booking but they said that usually keep freelancers on for a really long time. Right now I am only working on edits. Do you all think it would be OK to tell the agency that I’m currently at that I’m going to leave for another booking or is that really bad?

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So I got a freelance booking at a really great agency but the project was toxic as hell, passed around like a hot potato by the staff producers. I came in too late to save it and then they pulled the shoot in house and my gig got cut short. That said no one knows how bad it was on the inside, and it was a good boost for my resume.
I am now in a long term freelance and while not at all toxic, it is not glorious shoots and all that. The thing to remember about freelance is to keep yourself booked and making a day rate that you want. Be wary of the shiny object. And better not to burn a bridge. But you don’t have to accept extension if you get booked with someone else.

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