My experience is that church musicians in general are vastly
underappreciated. Singers maybe more so--after all, ANYONE can sing!
The experience that was the last straw for me was when my church told me that
they could not possibly give me a raise because there wasn't a cent
available. They said the same thing to the organist, but eventually relented
and gave him an increase. He was a member of the congregation, I was not.
Anyway, shortly after I relented and signed the contract without a raise (on
the understanding that they were flat broke--which they swore they were) they
had a very expensive, state of the art sound system installed that cost them
thousands of dollars. There was nothing wrong with their existing system that
I was aware of. That did it! I resigned as soon as I found out about it.
Judy
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