Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone here ever had gotten disrespect from being a magician. I'm not just talking about hecklers while your performing magic or magician vs magician. Just someone acting rude/belittling you for being a magician.
Let me explain:
I remember 3 years ago when my second cousin had a party for some celebration I can't remember too well. I wasn't big into performing yet, and they hired a magician for the kids which I thought was cool. I missed half the show because I arrived late, but from what I saw the guy was decent. I started chatting with him after the show when he was asking the guests what tricks they enjoyed the most and just socializing.
After awhile of magic talk, he asked if I had a job or anything and I said no.
He gave me his card to call him to get a job with moving/carrying equipment and just getting close to a show to see what it takes to perform in front of kids. I thought it would be good for me to shadow him to see what goes into a kids show really, cause I really had no idea. He was actually a close friend of the family, so it was all good.
Now I was pretty excited about this, because well, it was a start. I'd be paid $25 a show for 45 minutes to an hour. Not bad considering I wasn't doing much- Just being payed to learn and carry equipment from the car to the house and set everything up.
Next day at school I was excited to tell my friends about this and they were saying how it was awesome and that I should definitely contact the guy. Most of my friends are very supportive of me for being a magician.
One girl though who I thought was my friend got into a fight with me about something irrelevant, and her last lines were, "at least I'm not a magicians lovely assistant", and walked away.
I was left speechless. . .
To this day, that still bothers me.
I don't understand how people can knock someone else's job/career.
So my question is, Has anyone else had a time where you were just disrespected for being a magician and to this day it just eats at you?
I'm just curious.
I was wondering if anyone here ever had gotten disrespect from being a magician. I'm not just talking about hecklers while your performing magic or magician vs magician. Just someone acting rude/belittling you for being a magician.
Let me explain:
I remember 3 years ago when my second cousin had a party for some celebration I can't remember too well. I wasn't big into performing yet, and they hired a magician for the kids which I thought was cool. I missed half the show because I arrived late, but from what I saw the guy was decent. I started chatting with him after the show when he was asking the guests what tricks they enjoyed the most and just socializing.
After awhile of magic talk, he asked if I had a job or anything and I said no.
He gave me his card to call him to get a job with moving/carrying equipment and just getting close to a show to see what it takes to perform in front of kids. I thought it would be good for me to shadow him to see what goes into a kids show really, cause I really had no idea. He was actually a close friend of the family, so it was all good.
Now I was pretty excited about this, because well, it was a start. I'd be paid $25 a show for 45 minutes to an hour. Not bad considering I wasn't doing much- Just being payed to learn and carry equipment from the car to the house and set everything up.
Next day at school I was excited to tell my friends about this and they were saying how it was awesome and that I should definitely contact the guy. Most of my friends are very supportive of me for being a magician.
One girl though who I thought was my friend got into a fight with me about something irrelevant, and her last lines were, "at least I'm not a magicians lovely assistant", and walked away.
I was left speechless. . .
To this day, that still bothers me.
I don't understand how people can knock someone else's job/career.
So my question is, Has anyone else had a time where you were just disrespected for being a magician and to this day it just eats at you?
I'm just curious.