The silly side of clowning around ends when you don't have a paying gig. Professional clowns have to work just as hard as other professionals to find and land worthwhile gigs. The best part of being a clown is that every job is an interview, because someone is always judging your clown skills for their own party needs.
Instructions
1. Entertain kids at birthday parties. This is the most popular form of clown jobs and it's one job that helps you find other jobs by simply being a clown that other kids want at their birthday party. Advertise in the paper and on bulletin boards, set up a booth at chamber of commerce events advertising your services and leave fliers at party supply stores and party rental places.
2. Walk in a local parade, passing out fun items that have your contact information on them. Use this opportunity to impress a lot of people in one shot. Since most parades use volunteers and not paid workers, consider a parade as a networking opportunity.
3. Speak to the coordinators of local carnivals and festivals and see if they'd like to hire you as a clown. Regional events are a great place to meet people in your area and most coordinators have a budget for extra entertainment. Just make sure you can tell them what you offer and why they should use you for their event.
4. Visit churches and schools and find out if they have events coming up where they need a clown for hire. You can also give the school enough fliers to send home with each student advertising that you visited the school and would love to entertain at a birthday party.
5. Show up at a park or beach during the weekend. Bring a few select tricks and some balloons and see what happens. Kids will run over to you and parents will take notice. You may find a few jobs by just showing up and clowning around with people.
6. Travel around with a circus for an ongoing job. Network with people in the entertainment industry to find out which circus companies are hiring, or visit websites of circus companies to find out join the circus.
7. Protect bull riders and cowboys by becoming a rodeo clown. If you want a little more danger than making a balloon sword, grab your makeup, some baggy pants and your adrenaline and get in the riding ring. Rodeo clowns entertain people, while at the same time protecting someone's life.
