Negative Creeping

Last year I met up for beers with an audio engineer who was passing through town while doing front of house for a well-known artist on a sold out tour. While we were chatting about life and audio, he brought up an interesting point. It seemed some of the folks he was traveling with brought severely negative attitudes along and were bringing the rest of the crew "down." Most of us have probably been around this scene before; the kind of people that disparage the very artist and managers that have provided them with a job. He wondered why any of the crew would have these attitudes about their work. They have touring gigs in the music industry; it would seem that this was the position they had all aspired to and achieved. As he told me, "Maybe there are far too many people for whom this is just a job, not a vocation."