in place and you can communicate intui- tively with each other's creative choices. Maybe the production is going to start out of town and move to Broadway. Or maybe, just maybe, the rent is due and you have no other job. Interesting Quote: I read a script until I understand that either I have something to contribute or I don't. If I don't, I don't take the job. --Geoff Dunbar To be perfectly honest, all of these reasons can be the right reason to take a job. The hope is always that several of these will be why you take the job. If you take the job just to cover the rent, be aware that this is what you are doing. If you have grander ideas about collaborating with your "dream team" of designers, be aware of that too. Know why you are accepting a job and how that will influence your work. What do I mean by influence? Well, if you take a job because of the "dream team," will you expect to work will be the production to take your career to the next level, and then no one "impor- tant" comes to see it. Are you disappointed? Does this make your work any less good? Absolutely not! Interesting Quote: It's not Show Fun ... it's Show Business. --M. L. Geiger My goal has always been to do the best work I can, every single time. If I am happy with my work, then I can only assume that someone will eventually see it and agree with me. This is how I started out my career, how I continued my career, and how my career has gotten to where it is today. Keep in mind that every production should be a learning experience as well. I don't say that because this is a textbook and you are a student. I say that because when we stop learning, we stop growing. As artists we always want to be pushing ourselves to be better, to learn more, to strive for the next level. This is a mind-set as much as anything else. If you stop striving,