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Obviously professional network, systems administration, web programming and software QA experience is useful to have, but work in television (was for my school district in high school, and we had a tv magnet program, so two years of instruction in tv proceeded that) has been huge, at least since we seem to have overcome the Acacia media copyright trolling that threatened adult internet video.
Political campaign, pr & press for protests, while largely unpaid, led to development of press contacts lists, understanding formats and what journos want out events, press releases, etc.
Humanitarian disaster relief work, and hotel hospitality have helped in understanding both security and hospitality, feeding and calming crowds of irritable and injured people on the move and far from home - that's useful when attending these big shows, I suppose :P
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