This is my stress outlet that causes me the most stress.
Think about that for a second. The thing I do to escape is the thing I need to escape from. Event promotion is a hamster wheel made of adrenaline, WhatsApp notifications, and bar minimum anxiety.
Any other event organizers who feel like this is ironically the loneliest profession in the world? Surrounded by 500 people every night. Fundamentally alone in the work. The crowd goes home at 6am. You go home to a spreadsheet that says you cleared the bar minimum by $162.
But I keep doing it. Because the alternative — a normal job, normal hours, normal silence — is worse than the stress. At least this stress has a bassline.