^^^^^^ Carl -- That sounds like when I used to do fireworks.... everybody wanted to come out and do a fireworks show ------ and some would even last part of a day! Hot as hell - humid - hot steel and sand and rust - you're covered with it - we call it getting corn dogged.... working inside a 40' trailer that's stacked with mortars... spent gun powder... and bits of paper from last years show - all black and stinky... No air movement whatsoever... and it's 50* hotter in the trailer than out in the hot sun... OH -- and you have about 10 days of that from 7AM til 5 or 6 at night...
Or trying to build a show in Denver for the Winter Olympics... and you're fingers don't work....
Or carrying EVERYTHING UP 6 flights of stairs to do a show on the roof of the Treasure Island in Las Vegas... and then carrying everything DOWN those same stairs after the show is done... the only good news - we shot the shells... but all the mortars and racks and cables and controllers....
Some guys would work one whole show --- then you never saw them or heard from them again... ONE AND DONE.