Here we are, at the end of the semester, and once again I am staring at a summer that will be jammed packed with work as an IATSE Local 121 stagehand. In a lot of ways I am dreading the start of the season because it means my free time will dwindle down to the few hours I get to sleep between work, but at the same time I am excited for another summer of live event concerts, Artpark’s summer musical, and a nice inflation of my bank account.
Thankfully, I think that the strike for “Urinetown” did a lot to get me into the headspace for the season. It was a long, grueling day where myself and other student spent covered in saw dust, arms sore from unscrewing thousands of screw from the set.
I woke up this morning the sorest I’ve been in many months, but at the same time I know it is only prelude to what will be the next four months for me. And I can’t wait. I hope everybody has a great, restful, relaxing summer…because I definitely won’t be. But that’s ok, because even when this job beats you down, I still can’t help but love it.
And the money doesn’t hurt either.