Life's Finally Almost Back!
Okay, the main purpose of me not having written the past week is there really hasn't been a lot to report on. I remember I was a lot more able to come up with meaningful entries in college because there was variety new things to report on daily. Now? Well, let's just say that life is about to get interesting again.
I start work this afternoon and I couldn't be more excited to get going again! The downside to today is that I won't be getting paid because the office I needed to fill paperwork out at decided to close for 5 days for graduation. That was a 1 day thing; why the heck do you need 5 days to be closed?? No matter, at least it's something to do; though I would like something to do with money.
The week before was a lot of spending time with Jake and Ethan. Now that Jake's back and neither of us could start working until this week, we figured instead of being a menace to other people with busy lives, we would just hang out and help keep each other busy. The biggest key to making a decent transition back into the real world is just keeping yourself busy. As a missionary you have an hour by hour plan for each day for 2 complete years. Literally, there isn't a single day that goes by without a plan from 6:30 AM to 10:30 PM. Then you get home and literally have nothing at all to do and hardly any expectations to uphold. Wanna take a 3, 4, 10 hour nap? No one's gonna stop you, so go for it. Except your conscience won't let you so you just end up staying up and twiddling your thumbs because you don't know what to do with yourself. That is the situation I've been battling the past few weeks.
Well, the battle is over and I now have a good 30 hours of work under my belt from the past week. It's not as much as I want but it's a good start. The most important part of it all is that it's giving me something to do. I have two jobs on BYU campus now. One is the heavenly job back at BYUtv as a cameraman. I've talked about this job and how much I love it before, but it begs repeating. I love working as a cameraman for BYUtv. I seriously don't know how I got so lucky to have a job like that but I absolutely love it! It's giving me something really great to put on my resume and on top of that it's super fun!
My other job is as a video editor for BYU Arts Video Production. Basically, different departments in the arts department can hire us to their pleasure and have us film their shows, rehearsals, and classes. Then we go and edit the footage and put it on YouTube or put it on DVD's. It's a really fun job that lets me be creative and in charge of the projects I'm assigned to seeing that I basically head the project from start to finish. I of course have a supervisor, but he's really good about letting the students retain their style in making these videos; and we're careful not to take advantage of that. It's a great job, and both jobs are giving me a ton of work experience in the multimedia field.
Speaking of work, that's all I've done this past week. There was the BYU Women's Conference that ate up the majority of my week, particularly between Wednesday and Friday. It's a great faith-boosting experience for the women that are there, but for a guy, you feel dangerously outnumbered and extremely unsafe. One sexist joke and it'll be like this:
Well, the battle is over and I now have a good 30 hours of work under my belt from the past week. It's not as much as I want but it's a good start. The most important part of it all is that it's giving me something to do. I have two jobs on BYU campus now. One is the heavenly job back at BYUtv as a cameraman. I've talked about this job and how much I love it before, but it begs repeating. I love working as a cameraman for BYUtv. I seriously don't know how I got so lucky to have a job like that but I absolutely love it! It's giving me something really great to put on my resume and on top of that it's super fun!
My other job is as a video editor for BYU Arts Video Production. Basically, different departments in the arts department can hire us to their pleasure and have us film their shows, rehearsals, and classes. Then we go and edit the footage and put it on YouTube or put it on DVD's. It's a really fun job that lets me be creative and in charge of the projects I'm assigned to seeing that I basically head the project from start to finish. I of course have a supervisor, but he's really good about letting the students retain their style in making these videos; and we're careful not to take advantage of that. It's a great job, and both jobs are giving me a ton of work experience in the multimedia field.
Speaking of work, that's all I've done this past week. There was the BYU Women's Conference that ate up the majority of my week, particularly between Wednesday and Friday. It's a great faith-boosting experience for the women that are there, but for a guy, you feel dangerously outnumbered and extremely unsafe. One sexist joke and it'll be like this:
Not safe.
Anyways, the second day I was doing work for the big event in the Marriot Center at BYU and I got the most lucrative job of all: Script Reader. Basically my job for 10 hours was to sit next to the director and follow each line of the script with a pen to help him keep track. Yep, I got paid to point at a script. And yes, it was as exciting as it sounds. Let's just say I prefer being behind the camera. After the whole shabang was over, I went to the Marriot Center to help take the cameras down. All of the Relief Society, Young Womens, and Primary presidencies were there in the tunnel and I walked past every single one of them. I even was wheeling one of the cameras into the tunnel and almost ran into Jean Stevens who is in the Primary Presidency. As cool as an experience that was, Sister Stevens, if you ever read this...sorry about that.
So that's my life now! I really am going to try and get a more frequent updating so I can actually have a journal like blog. That was the whole purpose of this thing, but it doesn't do a whole lot of good if I post in it every other week...I'll try to do better.
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