I work as a piano player for hire.
I mostly get gigs in small little dive bars, which is fine with me.
It pays the bills. But one thing I am pretty particular on is the air quality in where I perform. If I get a job that is a smoke filled bar, I will turn it down flat out. Even if I have not had work in a while and am nearly starving. I would rather starve that have to perform in bad air quality! Most bars have outlawed smoking and do not allow it, but there are a few that still do allow it. And those I will not work no matter how much you pay me. In order for me to perform well, I need to have the most wonderful air quality. I can deal with not perfect air quality if needed and struggle through, but flat out bad air quality from a place filled with cigarette smoke I can not deal with. Funny enough I used to be a smoker, so you would think that I could handle it. But that is not the case. After I quit smoking I actually ended up buying a whole home air purification system for my home to clean out the bad air quality that was still lingering around from the smoke on my clothes, etc. That whole home air purification system sure did the trick. A lot of these bars should invest in whole home air purification systems or something like it for commercial buildings.