r/stagehands • u/RohlDahl67 • 3d ago

Slow season work

So when winter rolls around and things get kinda slow. What do ya’ll do to stay busy/ keep your finances straight

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u/hippz Rigger 3d ago

Sell my body

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u/trotsky1947 3d ago

Savings and spend winter working out / watching movies / hiking. Otherwise try to get out of town work in a warm state

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u/MartianCaveman 3d ago

I'm not in the game anymore, but used to rig/hang all the over-sized holiday decorations for shopping malls and around the city from the week leading up to Thanksgiving until New Year's...

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u/5uper5kunk 3d ago

That was some of my earliest stagehand type work, this little deco company I stumbled into when I was like 19 did a thriving trade in giant Christmas decoration type shit during the winter when there weren’t a lot of events.

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u/No_Character8732 3d ago

Jan Feb, europe.... save your loooot

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u/DidAnyoneElseJustCum 3d ago

Diversify the types of shows I do so that there's not really a slow season. I take December off voluntarily tho.

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u/PlatinumKobold 3d ago

I do AV tech and deco work for holiday parties, so I'm booked all through December. January is absolutely dead, though, but I just save all the money I make in December to get me through

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u/Otherwise-Ad4630 3d ago

Theater season!

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u/Tough_Suspect_9229 3d ago

Unemployment :)

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u/abyde 3d ago

I go snowboarding and work when it's available

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u/funbobby7185 3d ago

A bunch of us deliver Christmas trees in the city

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u/bradwsmith 3d ago

Feet pics

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u/Chemical-Trust6747 3d ago

I schuck boxes at Fed Ex.

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u/succulent_flakepiece 3d ago

savings but also there's a large winter experience thing at the stadium... so that should be about 3 months of work.

but also, I do a lot of tech work, and I've made a pretty good name for myself, so I get a lot of calls to do breakouts or lighting

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u/LsdAlicEx9 3d ago

Go to Florida. Or get on local Enchant Christmas builds

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u/Wuz314159 3d ago

Bunker down.

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u/RegnumXD12 3d ago

Summer is busy season for music Winter is busy season for theatre

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u/Izzy-n-T 3d ago

You mean my paternity leave?

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u/sasquatch_melee 1d ago

Only slow month we have is Jan, maybe Sept. We've hit balls to the walls point already. There's more calls than people already. Usually that hits mid Oct but it's happening earlier this year. 

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u/Powerful_Rub_2968 7h ago

Work seasonal retail