When Should You Work For Free?
Three years ago, I made the decision to stop working for free. Up until this point in my arts career, I would say yes to almost every opportunity. Working in a non-arts day job afforded me the flexibility to support and finance my own independent arts work, and I was hungry to gain experience in the industry.
This trajectory is, of course, not unique. Like many of my peers, I was balancing the precarity of my underpaid and unpaid arts labour with my professional development in the arts sector. When making a choice between doing something for free, or not doing it at
