I wanna join the circus; will I be well-renumerated?

Factual Questions
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Say I want to sell the family farm (no extra charge for the groundhogs)and put the horses up for adoption. I’m doing this to increase my earnings potential. I apply for a job in a top flight circus (d’Soliel for example). My qualification: some spectacular, much sought after talent or another. Anyhow, how much cash could I make? Anyone familiar with the workings of circuses (circi?)? Anyone know the various employment opportunities available and on average, how well paid the staff are?

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You will probably not be renumerated.

You may be remunerated.

I assume you want to get paid.

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Y’never know, Bob. They could take roll several times a day.

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      • First off, Circ de Soliel is not a typical circus: it is an artsy-acrobat arrangement that plays places considerably more upscale than the usual touring big top or carnival.
  • Second, in my area (US midwest) the words “circus” and “carnival” are almost completely interchangable: by arrangement, they are almost always scheduled at the same time at the local fairgrounds. Basically, in Midwestern parlance a circus is a performance, a carnival has rides and games of “semi”-chance, and a fair has livestock, agriculture and craft-related shows and often rodeo events. When I was 20 years younger, each of these was scheduled on separate dates and fairs+carnivals were done only once or twice a year, but as crowds dropped off, they put them together more and more often until now, they are rarely held apart. -Fairs are still held separately, because there’s not enough stall space for all the circus animals and all the fair/rodeo animals, and all the cattle/horse trailers eat up lots of parking space.
    ~ I doubt that regular circus/carnival performers earn loads of money; it seems to be very much something you have to want to do. I used to know somebody who worked at the local fairgrounds and I could usually weasel into anything held there without paying and wander mostly as I pleased. I never asked any performers how much they made, but a middle-grade rock star has a tour bus way nicer than the usual circus or carnival outfit provides. Granted, the tour bus belongs to the employer and not the performer, but that should tell you something. - MC
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Nice try, BobT, but I think you aimed a little high.

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Oh the shame…Thanks Bob T

So your post is compensatory?:rolleyes:

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I’m making up for a lifetime of saying that particular word wrong.