There was nothing on the lawn but trampled grass. Having worked on many non-circus features too, she knew everyone from Yakima Canutt and his equally legendary family to currently active personnel in the stuntpersons' guild. Even though the pay scale is higher, not all crew people like such jobs and some refuse them. Doris, whose r sum sparked these reflections, didn't have a reason for her admitted past attraction to location work. But we wondered anew why others seek it.
Nothing stays the same from one day to the next, or from hour to hour.
The psychological security of clocking in at a familiar gate each weekday morning to activate a stable routine from a well-worn bench or desk is absent. In its place, according to the sometimes subliminal explanations of those we've talked with, is variety. They also appear to be able to function reliably and professionally in a mutable series of settings. And environmental diversity can be congenial. She starts the motor, at which point the man runs up to the driver's window, pleads with her.