Working at churches as an audio engineer is definitely a different experience. I’ve been working at dozens of different church’s the last few years and It’s really opened my eyes to a lot of things. Check out the following tweets if you care

It’s really hard to have your home church be where you work as well. For me it somewhat took away from the “church experience” almost like how the sausage was made analogy. On top of that it hurts 1000x more when your home church makes a “business” decision because it

Automatically feels personal. Now on the flip side, working at church’s you’ve never attended it’s harder to feel invested. It’s DEFINITELY harder to build real relationships and friendships. The audio guy is always the one left out, of everything and that’s especially

True working at a church where you’re “just the sound guy”. I’ve also learned that most churches (non denominational) model themselves after 2 maybe 3 mega churches. Which sucks because these pastors and senior staff don’t want to take the actual steps required

To get their church to that point. They bring you in as the audio guy and say “make this room sound like so and so” but they give you a $100 usb mixer and put you in a corner. There’s levels and steps to EVERYTHING. And finally - I will say one plus across the board

Of working at church’s is that you really see who is in it for the right reasons. You really learn what pastors are “living what they preach” and I hate to break it to you but 90% of them aren’t. They aren’t genuine people. I worked at a church for 3 years and was the HEAD

Audio engineer. Spent at least 4 hours a week around the pastor and him nor his wife took the time to learn my name. In fact one time he asked security to remove me from the production room because he thought I was a random. I just think when it comes to churches

For me now it’s SO much more then just going Sunday and enjoying the music. It’s like I have this constant hesitation with whether the pastor is being “real” or not. And I’ve become SUPER picky about the church’s I engineer at because I don’t want to support a pastor and staff

That aren’t in it with their true, pure hearts. Okay - off my soapbox. Just had to share for anyone that was curious or actually stuck around to read this thread.