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<blockquote data-quote="Justice C. Bigler" data-source="post: 15026" data-attributes="member: 74">Re: State of the Industry 1/2011I can&#039;t comment on the touring side of things. I&#039;m a house tech for a publicly supported multi-room venue. I can tell you that 1) about 7 months after I started here, we took a pretty step pay cut. 2) six months after that we layed off three people and I only just made it through the lay offs by the skin of my teeth.And 3) I&#039;m still making more in overtime than my former original salary. We are so busy that it&#039;s not even funny. Most of that is because we book our building 5 years in advance and our users are mostly local groups. They have made cuts also, they continue to produce shows and keep their seasons running.Frankly I&#039;m jealous of the guys that get to tour and run consoles and mix shows every day. My job pretty much entails orchestral reinforcement for opera and ballet, talking head, and house head for touring shows that bring their own engineers. It means I get to spend a lot of time surfing web forums on my tethered laptop while I watch the shows from the booth (kind of like I am as I write this&nbsp; <img src="http://www.soundforums.net/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&nbsp; ) But I don&#039;t get to mix shows that often. I wish I could find a full time job where I can.I&#039;ve put out resumes with most of the touring theatre companies. But as a wise old man said, &#039;&#039;it&#039;s not who you know, it&#039;s who knows you&#039;&#039;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Justice C. Bigler, post: 15026, member: 74"] Re: State of the Industry 1/2011 I can't comment on the touring side of things. I'm a house tech for a publicly supported multi-room venue. I can tell you that 1) about 7 months after I started here, we took a pretty step pay cut. 2) six months after that we layed off three people and I only just made it through the lay offs by the skin of my teeth. And 3) I'm still making more in overtime than my former original salary. We are so busy that it's not even funny. Most of that is because we book our building 5 years in advance and our users are mostly local groups. They have made cuts also, they continue to produce shows and keep their seasons running. Frankly I'm jealous of the guys that get to tour and run consoles and mix shows every day. My job pretty much entails orchestral reinforcement for opera and ballet, talking head, and house head for touring shows that bring their own engineers. It means I get to spend a lot of time surfing web forums on my tethered laptop while I watch the shows from the booth (kind of like I am as I write this [img]http://www.soundforums.net/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] ) But I don't get to mix shows that often. I wish I could find a full time job where I can. I've put out resumes with most of the touring theatre companies. But as a wise old man said, ''it's not who you know, it's who knows you''. [/QUOTE]

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