Alternative ways of playing an unemployed booker

[ArcheoOutOfNowhere]

One of the things that have bothered me the most in TEW compared to other "sports" management games is that, unlike say FM where you at least have fake diplomas and all to justify it, in TEW you can start unemployed and be hired by a relatively big company without in kayfabe having the tiniest bit of experience. Granted, as you're playing as an actual person, you could justify it by being a former pro wrestler or whatever, but still.
Combined to this, there is no accurate way to portray the small promoters who, rather than rent a place to promote their shows, are invited by a city, a company, a casino, etc to have a show. For example, my local Belgian town has thought recently to have a wrestling show for the town festivities, and contacted different promoters to see what could be done: none of those promoters have a regular schedule, an established roster and some don't even have belts.
The same goes for wrestling conventions: they can be somewhat portrayed by having a touring schedule if booked by the player, but not at all by the AI as they'd hire a fixed roster and book their shows in the same region until they grow enough.
Finally, while you can start your own company, it automatically has you as the Owner and gives you an arbitrary amount of money and popularity, as well as the choice of product.

My suggestion would be to kill three birds with one stone: when you're unemployed, you should every once in a while get a message from the AI offering you the opportunity to book an independent show for a local event, more or less like unemployed workers get to have indy shows booked by the AI to give them in-ring experience. You'd then get an amount of money, a timeslot, a productand a few goals (similar to the owner ones) and would negociate with workers say one week or two before the show to see if they would be interested in taking part. The more successful the indy show you book, the more you'd gain reputation.
For instance, say you're based in the Western Europe region: a local city (not named) would contact you to book an event with a budget of 3k for workers and a 2 hour slot. They'd tell you as "owner" goals they want a "Family-Friendly Pro Wrestling" product, and a focus on Belgian workers, and to avoid any Hardcore wrestler. You'd then contact Belgian workers as well as a couple of foreign stars, and book a show to the best of your ability.

Further down the road, you could also either get an offer from wrestling conventions to book their shows, or from an investor wanting to create their own company and offering you the job: in wrestling conventions, a concept a bit closer to an actual company, you'd get to pick where you want your next show to be and not be as limited since you wouldn't have to hire local workers only, have a regular budget and schedule, but still would need to hire people on "One Appearence" deals (unless you create titles, in which case you could offer a lengthier contract to the champions, that would terminate automatically when you have a title change, I suppose). Again, you'd get your booking rep grow a bit for each successful shows, with the bonus being bigger than for indy shows but still smaller than with the regular companies.
With an investor, however, you'd get (if you accept their offer, that is), an actual company but would not pick the product, the amount of money, popularity, etc as they'd be randomly selected, with a generated worker being created on the spot to be your owner. They could be a filthy rich famous heir and give you 50m to create their very own "Lucha Underground" company, a local entrepreneur who has 50k to spare towards a "Risque Adult" company, a pastor who uses the church's funds to have a Morality Wrestling company set up, etc etc.

Obviously, you'd also keep the choice to simply create your own company, as that system still works for those that just want a custom challenge.
 

TL;DR: Rather than simply candidate for one of the companies with no booker when we are unemployed or create our own custom one, let's also have the possibility to book independent shows and later on wrestling conventions shows with limitations, as well as randomly generated companies offering us the job.

PS: Sorry if it is a bit confusing/not written properly enough, it was just a random idea I had this morning that I tried to put on "paper" quickly in between interruptions !

[Jaysin]

As someone who has helped book shows like this, yes please. 

These one off shows are hard to really reflect outside using tribute shows as a fill in. 

[Zero]

This would be awesome