Now that I’m actually a little settled into my job and no longer running around like a chicken with my head cut off (most days), here’s a look at what my three most common types of days look like. And if you’re wondering about the type of skills that led me to this jobs –…
It’s been a while since we’ve done a day in the life of! It occurred to me though that my days on my last tour were wildly different from any other job I’ve done. I was on a bus and truck non-Equity national tour. The means that I lived on a sleeper bus. The fact…
My previous “day in the life” posts were so popular, I figured it was time to add the latest job to the list – a day in the life of a touring stage manager. The thing about this job is that there were three very different kinds of days: There were days off. Seriously, it…
After all that jetsetting through my twenties, I recently transitioned to a pretty normal job. Now I work as a Production Manager for an Off-Broadway theater. It’s sort of a step away from Stage Management, but uses a lot of the same skills. If, for some crazy reason, this was a path you were thinking…
As if I weren’t ill adjusted to normal life enough from my days at sea, once I left ships, I joined the circus. The days honestly all started to blur into one of two types over the following weeks and months I was out with them. Except travel days. We lived on a train…