Theatre Inspiration: The pandemic years have been very difficult for people in the performing arts, and for people across the nation in general. But one positive thing that came out of it was corporations realized that it wasn’t necessary to have employees come into the office every day, or even at all; that working independently from home was often just as effective as commuting into the office each day.
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Again, despite the article talking about how this a change with the pandemic, all they are doing is highlighting that this is a change that has occurred and has been an option since before the pandemic, neither of these stories seem relevant to the pandemic as a whole at all,one occurred in 2007 and one in the 1990s, years ago and 30 years before the start of the pandemic. So the title was a bit misleading, likely for the relevance and clicking power that the pandemic holds and probably will hold over us for a long time to come. I heard teachers talking about similar things in class, there will always be work to do no matter where you are so find the places that satisfy you, when I was applying to colleges this was also the advice I was given, you’ll make it work just find the places where you will enjoy being and the rest can come together. A sentiment which I am a bit worried to trust intrinsically, but is very comforting to think about.
This article provides a very interesting point of view regarding freedom and remote work that I had not really thought about earlier. When thinking of the last two years and how the pandemic has completely altered the course of our lives, we often don’t think to the positive result that have come from this change in how we work and communicate. I’ve always lived in New York City since I was a child so I didn’t realize how it must feel to leave the place you come from to have to work in a big city. But now that the pandemic has shown us that we dont need to be physically present in a particular location to collaborate successfully, we have the new found freedom of not choosing where we HAVE to live but actually where we WANT to live. I think that this is a very freeing thing that is helping people achieve a more happy sense of self. My sister for example is finishing her masters in Psychology at Brooklyn College, but has moved to Costa Rica and literally bee taking her classes beach side. There are definitely countless benefits towards Ones metal health and this shift is helping us all be happier people.
I think another concept covid introduced to the theatre industry is that we can't just work insane hours all the time anymore. I think having time off being forced upon some people who would rather work themselves into the ground and burnout either made them reassess their work life relationship or just leave their job altogether. It's not fair that it took a literal global pandemic to give people days off otherwise you just know that they would still be doing a standard 40 hour work week plus over hire at a different space and then side gigs on weekends they weren't booked working on. Covid really made people take a step back from the work and made everyone go walk their dog outside or touch grass and realize maybe there's more to life than just working for the next check. This isn't me saying money isn't important to them, but maybe easing up on loading hours onto their plate was lost from these last 3 years and maybe that's just as good.
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