It's been an interesting few days. After talking with old friends in the business and doing a bit more research online it seems NYC isn't what it used to be. While my old contacts agree that having ANY agency interested in taking me on is a major breakthrough, they all argue that right now is not the time to be in NY. One friend of mine who has been in the business about as long as I have (continuously though, I took years off) just relocated to London where everyone turned her down but 1 agency, where she had a contact. The economy is really bringing down the fashion/modeling industry hard and I am in no position to make a financial gamble on a market that is showing obvious favoritism to supermodels/celebrities and not much love to the normal working model. The friend in London is coming back to NY the beginning of June because work does pick up here then and has convinced me that would be the best time for me to come back as well.
I still plan on talking with Major and Ford tomorrow to see what they say but I think that ultimately I will head back to LA on Wednesday, sign up with a different, stronger LA agency within the next week and focus on working there, making as much money as I can and test a bit more with better photographers so that come June I am better prepared to hit the NYC market. I will also try to lose a bit more weight so that I am more competitive with the walking stick figures out here :) Even though at the moment I don't plan on staying in NYC, this has been a great learning experience and has re-acclimated me to the 2009 modeling industry in NYC.
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