Do Freelance Pianists Need Secretarial Skills?

Best of luck to everyone playing juries and recitals this spring! How do you feel about being required to do endless photocopying, printing, and collating of music in order to be prepared for your engagements? This anonymous comment from the Required and Preferred Skills posting gives a sense of the frustration that many of us feel:

This is an excellent list. It says nothing, however, about the classical skills that seem to be encroaching on our professional time and energy. I resent and refuse requests to print out, collate music sent via email from musicians seeking my collaboration. Please do likewise. I did not go to graduate school and work so hard learning to be a good musician to spend my professional time doing secretarial work.

I've always been okay with printing out stuff and putting it in binders. I have a particular way of hole-punching, taping, and organizing music in order to minimize page turns. In my freelancing years, I remember everyday-carrying a three-hole punch and tape on a regular basis so that I could collate pages in a hurry when I received a bunch of photocopies. Not everyone shares this view. 

from The Collaborative Piano Blog
http://collaborativepiano.blogspot.com/2018/04/do-freelance-pianists-need-secretarial.html