NY Daily News: "It was a regular day of moving sets and hanging lights for veteran stagehand John Santagata. Then, in an instant, something went wrong.
The 43-year-old from Merrick, L.I., was working at his current job, 'Young Frankenstein,' when a loaded forklift rolled over his left foot."
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I think this article brings up a really good point: that everyone should be smarter about financial planning, especially when you're in a job with a level of instability to it, and especially when you're young. Huge financial issues like this can be avoided to some extent by the unexpected if you plan really well and save when you're young. As a student, it's not something you think about much because you're so busy thinking about loans. But stuff like life insurance and a retirement fund are closer than we think, and this article is a good reminder that accidents can happen to anyone.
Although this article is a wake up call about our futures, I also think that this man can be somewhat of a bad example. It appears he was not an extravagent person, the article did sometimes sound like he was financially irresponsible and his accident merely made his realize how important it is to be smart about your money. Granted, it could happen to anyone with the right accident, but what I got out of this artcle, which is important and is the same message my father has been giving me the last 19 years, is that you have to be smart about your money and expect the unexpectable.
This article is really scary for anyone who intends to go into such a fickle business like ours. Knowing that just finding a job can be impossibly is scary enough. Knowing how easy it is to get hurt and not be able to take a job at all is even worse. I know someone who was working in theatre and did real estate on the side, just to have something to fall back on.
In a business when earnings are slim, savings are scant and health insurance is usually non-existent, its not surprising that injuries can be devastating. Unfortunately, because of the high physical demand, injuries are not only possible, but likely. It is incredibly scary knowing that if something went wrong in a shop or on a stage, a stagehand (or a carpenter, etc) could be out of that job for life. It just comes back to those safety lectures at the beginning of the year. We work in a very dangerous field, financially and physically, and we should be very aware of the consequences.
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