schedule schmedule!

At the end of the day you have to sit yourself down (when it's all getting a bit too much) and think about what is realistic, where your passions really are, what is practical and what is healthy. If you're the stage manager/lighting designer/lighting op/production manager/everything else for 5 shows that are happening in the next 4 months that you're not getting paid a cent for, but you've also got a part/full time job, personal hobbies, a partner and friends, you need to figure out where your priorities are. Myself and my partner are both in full time jobs and also just love to put our hands up for amateur un paid theatre, but what it means is that we find ourselves not seeing enough of eachother, always being stressed, distancing from friends and completely forgetting our jobs. We've come to a resolution that we need to limit the amount of shows we do a year, cutting it down from 13 to 3. Theatre is great, it's fun, frustrating and hard work with heaps of rewards, but unless it is your full time job or your family, it can always wait, because nobody ever gets to the end of their life or working life and says "Jeez, I wish I had worked more".