I have several mentors in this business who I have seen happily retire, and I know some that will never be able to retire, willingly or otherwise. My good friend, Fraser Kerrigan, lighting designer/programmer and owner of Cooperstown Escape Rooms and Event Escape Rooms, is the perfect example of a man with an escape plan. In addition to touring countless countries over 30 years in the game, he has also opened up an escape room in Cooperstown, NY. Fraser knows that he will have to take his final cue someday. When the light shuts off for the last time, he wants to be ready. . “I knew it was time for me to start thinking of my life after lighting. It was scary at first thinking I couldn’t make the same money or that it would take so much time starting something from scratch,” he said. “But the transition is still happening, and there will always be bumps in the road, or a rumble strip in the middle of the night.” Fraser is prepared to step from one industry to the next when he has to. I recommend that you do the same.
-Chris Lose, from “LD at Large,” PLSN, Dec. 2018, page 68
