It's never been easier to get one
VO job, and never been harder to make a living at it.
I think you should enter voiceovers with the idea that if you're lucky, it'll be a source of supplemental income and whatever warm and fuzzy feelings that might generate.
However, the days when VOs were a license to print money are long gone. One good TV pharmaceutical account could run 7 years and you could buy two houses and a Cessna with that.
I never quite managed to make that dream come true, but I did take my wife to Europe twice in one year on one product's Xmas tags, all 43 of them ("Available at...."). Not any more. Not for a long time. That's over.
In fact, there came a time when a lot of friendly competitors were trying to sell me their second homes and used planes. That's when we all knew the tide was going out.
The fact that we're here spouting on this forum points to one of several reasons why. Today, the Net makes voiceovers possible FROM anywhere FOR anywhere, but when voices.com has around 1500 members and voice123 has over 3500, you will get lost in the shuffle.
Doesn't matter how good you are, or how much you've sprung for equipment or self-promotion or website optimization or whatever.
Dartboards, monkeys/typewriters, use your own image, but unless you land a juicy cable promo contract, don't quit your day job. In fact, try not to daydream about it.
When I started in NY back in the Pleistocene, when there was more than enough work for everybody and we all waited our turn, I was told that it would take five years to fully support myself as a
VO. (I managed to do it in three, but that was plain dumb luck.) I can't imagine how long it might take a newbie to get fully self-supporting now, or if it's even possible any more.
It's like winning the lottery. Somebody always does, but it's never you.
What was once a viable occupation is now more likely to be a side business. Don't torture yourself with unrealistic expectations.
Dick