CHANDLER MASSEY ON DAYS RETURN

Coming back to Salem for a visit as Will Horton means a tad more finagling for Chandler Massey these days.

“I’m a data visualization specialist at a health care analytics company. That’s my day job,” says the actor, who currently resides in Atlanta. “So it’s not quite as easy. There are more hoops to jump through.”

Massey’s been able to make it work so far. “I pop in and out of DAYS, so I build up enough PTO at my real job,” he explains. “When DAYS asks if I want to come out for a week, sometimes I do double duty. That means cutting it a little close in terms of meetings and things like that when I’m in Los Angeles. It’s just earlier days. My company is on East Coast time. So if I’m jumping into meetings at 8 a.m., it means 5 a.m. on the West Coast.

“Sometimes I can take the time off,” continues Massey. “I’ve done it several times, and it seems to be something that I’ve shown my company I can manage, that my productivity won’t fall off. I’ve been able to make it work so far, luckily.”