<div dir='auto'><div>I think everyone has a different level of tolerance for it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Personally, I treat those events like any other corporate-type event. I'm hired to do a job. I'll genuinely do the work to the best of my abilities, treat the client professionally, cash the check at the end of the day, and smile. Hey, I get to do the work that I love. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The way I see it, everything that happens at these events is talk, and everyone attending already has the same opinions. As long as the event isn't so sketchy that I'm worried about being physically harmed, I'll usually take the gig. Honestly, the biggest downside of political events is that most of them are hastily thrown together, run by campaign people who aren't experienced with live events, and they're cheap. Real production quality doesn't start to surface till you get to the big presidential races.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Two things I did learn early on: </div><div dir="auto">- Be flexible, because it'll change right up to the last minute.</div><div dir="auto">- Get paid in advance. :)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 14, 2021 4:53 AM, *Hobbit* via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Without trying to lean left or right here, I have to wonder ... do the folks
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working tech at political events wind up with really mixed feelings about
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effectively contributing to people/efforts/causes that they're not personally
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in favor of? Is it in their best ethical interests to decline such gigs,
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or is it "just a job" and everybody there is able to remain 100% mentally
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detached from whatever's going on, even if it is sometimes patently awful?
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_H*
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