Generally speaking, having a good job is not enough to be valuable. Most of the time, employers can always find someone else with the same abilities. Skills are a common resource that you can advertise. What is rare nowadays, and therefore “valuable”, is an attitude.
Attitude to learn, take risks, move forward and offer more, attitude to improve. So if you want to be valuable at work, focus mostly on your attitude. You don't have to be a great magician to succeed. Magic often starts out as a hobby, but before you know it, a fun skill can become an entertaining act.
Without a doubt, perfecting this trade is a matter of practice. Magicians are artists who have both an act of magic and an act of people. If you want to take a career as a magician seriously, develop an act and have it ready to start. Working on a contract basis is a smart choice for career opportunities in this area of work.
Magicians are considered truly successful when they enter the corporate entertainment market, which promises greater profits. Working in retainers with entertainment venues such as hotels in Las Vegas or Disney World in Florida is also considered one of the best opportunities to show the skills of a magician to a large crowd. If one prefers to remain independent, achieving celebrity status or one's own primetime television show like Criss Angel or David Blaine is an ambitious goal for many practicing wizards today. Budding wizards should take the time to read what the life of a professional magician would be like. Magic as a career is quite unpredictable and, like many entertainment jobs, requires hard work to turn it into a rewarding and profitable career.
All the time I kept up to date with my magic studying, learning and performing mostly in small concerts here and there. Finally, I got better paying jobs, started working with some agents, and met influential people in the events industry. At the time, magic was still a hobby and I earned some extra money on weekends and it was fun. Like anything else you like to do, you meet the right people and get involved in the community in some way. But I was becoming increasingly disenchanted with my situation.
I felt more like a professional temporary worker than a professional performer. My path was as an amateur when I was a child; I gave up magic for many years while pursuing a theater education. After all, being an excellent magician with unparalleled skill and a wide repertoire of tricks is not enough if no one knows who you are. Going from being an amateur magician, where you can impress your partner or parents with tricks on the table, to becoming a professional magician requires careful planning. Imagine that I held a shiny silver coin in one hand, slowly put it in the other hand, said a magic word, and then opened both hands to show them clearly empty. Many wizards have their skills honed and are able to perform a trick in less than a second. In that sense, I am proud to have the magical perspective and knowledge; I think they really lead me to interpretations of scripts and language for my actors when they direct which are unique to me.
Magicians work independently; they have regular performances at specific locations on contract basis or work for an entertainment company. Magicians often have to invest in their own tricks and accessories but the more experienced ones make more money from such investments. When it comes to acting, magic is essentially theater and being a professional magician satisfies that need in me. Making money as a magician takes time and effort simply because you have to build your reputation first. One of the lessons you learn very soon as a magician is that the most amazing part of a trick has nothing to do with secrecy. There are good magicians who can pull out rabbits from hats, hand out royal flushes or pull coins out of their ears.
Magicians are considered born artists; their tricks may seem miraculous especially if they are exceptionally talented. During the intervals between performances magicians spend their time thinking about new tricks and improving their existing techniques.
