4s are 7s and 7s are 4s
... meaning my new Producer has poor hand writting.
My new job is ok. Nothing terribly bad, but nothing outstandingly good either. I am now an overnight Production Assistant.
At my new station this means I roll the Prompter and Floor Direct, or I run the Cyron and punch up graphics during the show. I also make the graphics using several computer programs.
Not Brain Surgery that's for sure, but there is a learning curve. Meaning I have gone from being the person who answers questions for people, to being the one ASKING them. And I hate that.
Of course I'm going to make mistakes but I hate it that people assume I'm going to make them before I do. So far I have impressed my co-workers and bosses by how quickly I've picked up on how they do things. However there are a few individuals who only know me as "the new girl" and take it upon themselves to tell me things.
Take today for example. Show was over and I had been on the floor. I messed up a few things but nothing major. I was wrapping up a cable that goes with our hand-held prompter. This older women who was running one of the cameras pointed out that I was wrapping the cable wrong.
Ok, stop. I have a Bachelor's degree in Broadcasting and have spent over two-years in television. I think somewhere along the line I picked up on how to properly wrap a cable. If I am doing it wrong it is either out of laziness or because the cable has been wrapped wrong so many times before the only way to give it any shape is to continue doing what others before me had done.
Since I'm the new kid on the block, I'm not being lazy about anything. That conversation is like so many I've had this past week and a half. And it's extremely frustrating to me although I know it's a cross I must bear.
The other bug in my butt is the News department. Producers, please treat the PA's kindly. Not that anyone in News has been mean, in fact everyone is fairly nice, but they're cold and talk down to me. After all I am only a PA.
Part of me understands why, and in the back of my head is all those times I ignored or thought less of PA's at my old station. A Production Assistant is at the bottom of the totem pole at any station. Usually they are new to TV and are either in college or never went.
Consequently it's somewhat of a revolving door position. I can understand how those in News shrink away from getting too close to a person who won't be around all that long. Still it stings to feel left out of the "cool kids" crowd.
That said the other PAs are very nice and cool people. Slowly I'm working up to building friendships. I'm very homesick for News 10. Even though I hardly (if ever) got to see my co-workers outside of work, the comfort/friendship level was high and I miss it.
My former Producer had it right when she told me it wouldn't be as fun to work overnights somewhere else. We had a tight group at 10. At my new station there are a lot more people around. I've had to cut back on my swearing dramatically. I dropped an F-bomb today at work and wasn't sure what to do. A few of the folks around me flinched ::sigh:: I miss you girls.
I've got more to say, of course, but am once again running out of computer time at the Library. July 24th and my new DSL service can't come soon enough for me. I'll write more on work later. And I'll soon be writing about life with JR in Toledo, the Glass City (minus the G and L at times.)
Ta Ta for now.
My new job is ok. Nothing terribly bad, but nothing outstandingly good either. I am now an overnight Production Assistant.
At my new station this means I roll the Prompter and Floor Direct, or I run the Cyron and punch up graphics during the show. I also make the graphics using several computer programs.
Not Brain Surgery that's for sure, but there is a learning curve. Meaning I have gone from being the person who answers questions for people, to being the one ASKING them. And I hate that.
Of course I'm going to make mistakes but I hate it that people assume I'm going to make them before I do. So far I have impressed my co-workers and bosses by how quickly I've picked up on how they do things. However there are a few individuals who only know me as "the new girl" and take it upon themselves to tell me things.
Take today for example. Show was over and I had been on the floor. I messed up a few things but nothing major. I was wrapping up a cable that goes with our hand-held prompter. This older women who was running one of the cameras pointed out that I was wrapping the cable wrong.
Ok, stop. I have a Bachelor's degree in Broadcasting and have spent over two-years in television. I think somewhere along the line I picked up on how to properly wrap a cable. If I am doing it wrong it is either out of laziness or because the cable has been wrapped wrong so many times before the only way to give it any shape is to continue doing what others before me had done.
Since I'm the new kid on the block, I'm not being lazy about anything. That conversation is like so many I've had this past week and a half. And it's extremely frustrating to me although I know it's a cross I must bear.
The other bug in my butt is the News department. Producers, please treat the PA's kindly. Not that anyone in News has been mean, in fact everyone is fairly nice, but they're cold and talk down to me. After all I am only a PA.
Part of me understands why, and in the back of my head is all those times I ignored or thought less of PA's at my old station. A Production Assistant is at the bottom of the totem pole at any station. Usually they are new to TV and are either in college or never went.
Consequently it's somewhat of a revolving door position. I can understand how those in News shrink away from getting too close to a person who won't be around all that long. Still it stings to feel left out of the "cool kids" crowd.
That said the other PAs are very nice and cool people. Slowly I'm working up to building friendships. I'm very homesick for News 10. Even though I hardly (if ever) got to see my co-workers outside of work, the comfort/friendship level was high and I miss it.
My former Producer had it right when she told me it wouldn't be as fun to work overnights somewhere else. We had a tight group at 10. At my new station there are a lot more people around. I've had to cut back on my swearing dramatically. I dropped an F-bomb today at work and wasn't sure what to do. A few of the folks around me flinched ::sigh:: I miss you girls.
I've got more to say, of course, but am once again running out of computer time at the Library. July 24th and my new DSL service can't come soon enough for me. I'll write more on work later. And I'll soon be writing about life with JR in Toledo, the Glass City (minus the G and L at times.)
Ta Ta for now.
posted by SassyJill at 1:26 PM
1 Comments:
Toledo is the glass city? Why knew?
Oh, and once you get computer access you'll need to change your profile -- Miss soon-to-be 25 year-old who lives in Toledo.
And watch your language!!
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