I appreciate the irony of writing this for my volunteer gig, on the weekend, after months of working overtime. I need a break. We all do. … [Read more...]
Managing Quality of Life (as a Manager)
We all work in creative fields doing creative work with creative people. Along with that creativity is some semblance, great or small, of technology and the requirement for us to guesstimate the length each task we do will take. Making an entertainment product, no matter the medium, has elements of reinventing the wheel and huge swaths of unknown creative territory. The … [Read more...]
Andrew Lackey Special: Surviving the Crunch; Being Healthy Sound Designers
For many of us, this time of year is about spending time with family and friends; the other "half" of the life balance. I jokingly put half in quotes because that "half" can look a lot more like a sliver on the pie chart during some projects. One of the dicier topics in our industry is "The Crunch": the final weeks or months of a project where there aren't enough hours in … [Read more...]