Events - an aging story

Event management certainly starts to lose its charm after ten or more years of doing it. In the beginning, especialy if one is lucky to start with talents like Brown, Sting and Paco de Lucia, it's all absolutely fantastic. Working behind the stage of such performances is a dream come true if you're not into the outer glamour but like to know the inner dynamics and how the whole mechanism works, where the lights are and why, what the floor is made of and why and so on. Which has always been fascinating to me and I learned all I could learn in about four years. But from then on, it starts to go down. Neither the lights nor the floor materials develop that fast and chances are in, let's say, five years of constant work you will know all that could be known about this whole show that is actually a fantasy behind which many people push many buttons.

Then come your other priorities and you start wondering how to accommodate a child in a 16-18 hours working day. Because when a group is on tour the stage has to be cleared past performance, so the trucks with the equipment can start their journey to the next city. And sometimes the elevator breaks. Or the driver is absent. or one of them. Or all of them went to a bar. Or the equipment is so much that the dawn rises prior to loading it all. Then you go home and your husband (if you have one) looks quite hostile. If you don't have a husband, your child throws stuff at you. Nope, not a good thing.

Or you just have a day like the one I had today when you're re-reading this almost 100-page contract and every ten pages or so you are kindly reminded the water must be San Pellegrino! With exclamation marks. Many times, many marks. I swear, I'm on the verge to throw it in the garbage. On the other hand, can't help but laugh. What would happen if they stop making San Pellegrino? No star, no event. LOL

But, of course, there are enough talented people with whom it's a pleasure to work. Although, I'd rather prefer to organize my best friend's wedding which she's been awaiting for nearly five years... Time wasted. And she'll definitely have no requirements what brand of water I'll provide. But she may make my life tough regarding the wine... No way to avoid pain in this profession, I guess.