another interesting aspect is the amount of IT workers and engineers on the rave scene!

this is not surprising given the amount of high-tech equipment used for raves and the increasing use of the internet by crews to keep in contact…

OTOH I reckon its a bit of a vulnerability as well

these jobs are fairly well paid, and have useful “perks” such as more slack time between jobs than manual, admin or call centre jobs, access to computers, net connections, electronic test equipment and in some cases even entire items of hardware 😉

IME most of the SE party crews are funded by people in these sorts of jobs, the regular salary makes it easy to get credit or put something aside to buy a rig, and its also easier to get time off (or be slightly sketchy at the start of the week)

but what happens when these jobs all start disappearing to offshored organisations where someone will work 3 times as hard as you for a third of the salary?