As I’ve taken more risks in my life (in fact, almost making a habit of it some days!), I’ve come to the conclusion that the wide variety of practical skills I learned in theatre have been instrumental both to my successes and the very fabric of who I am.
Sometimes these skills come from actor-stuff,
helping me make more sense of social life and living in a different culture.
Today's topic: I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing if it wasn’t for the skills I learned from Stage Management.
I tried out stage management not because I wanted to do it professionally, but because it’s a vital job within a theatre production and I wanted to learn more about it. Tackling a new job only tangentially related to your area of expertise and experience, or even completely outside it, is always a great way to stretch your brain.
View it as a challenge, and work to apply your existing skills in new ways (that’s right: your existing tools might be very successful when applied in unorthodox or novel ways!). If nothing works, seek out new skills to cope. We don’t always succeed at these ‘risky’ experiments, but being curious about how systems work is a great way to make new mental connections, skills, and develop a top-down model of your life and work.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR JOB, SOMETIMES, MAYBE
You are both in charge and not in charge. You’re expected to be invisible, immediately come to the forefront when problems arise, and then disappear again.
You get dumped on, a lot – because the buck stops with you.
If you're lucky...
There are people around the world that like to go to weird amusement/theme parks.
