Gotta love the art of salary, I am also salary in I would do it anyway for the art of it in getting it done no matter the pay.
Still gotta at some point thus in beyond the joy of it in getting too booked up and not able to get it done attribute an hourly Man/hour price to what gets done in the end so as for scope of project and estimate of at least how much in the end its worth it getting done yet you even if salary working day and night for something that's needed and perhaps done well but at some point stilll is best left to a man/hour concept even if salary in that trade off in done well, budget and timeline to get it done. Magic for the theater is one thing and once in a while sure in being worth it sure, but there is also the burn out factor that prevents workable gear or retaining people willing to do so. More than once had to send home an assistant tasked with the impossible that was not up to it in leaving more on me.
Still gotta at some point thus in beyond the joy of it in getting too booked up and not able to get it done attribute an hourly Man/hour price to what gets done in the end so as for scope of project and estimate of at least how much in the end its worth it getting done yet you even if salary working day and night for something that's needed and perhaps done well but at some point stilll is best left to a man/hour concept even if salary in that trade off in done well, budget and timeline to get it done. Magic for the theater is one thing and once in a while sure in being worth it sure, but there is also the burn out factor that prevents workable gear or retaining people willing to do so. More than once had to send home an assistant tasked with the impossible that was not up to it in leaving more on me.