Welcome back to The Backstage Perspective! It’s been a while, I apologize for my lack of entries. After taking a short break, I am back at the Tower! Today, I had the pleasure of starting a new project with Stephanie Johnson. I am planning on continuing the photo archive project with David Miller very soon, but I took on a new task today to get some more variety. The job was simple enough; I had to create folders of restaurants in Downtown Bend on one of the Tower’s iPads. A lot of Stephanie’s job is making sure that performers and their crew are comfortable. She helps them figure out where to stay, what equipment they need, and last but not least, what they would like to eat. Instead of searching the web and wasting time looking for various types of restaurants, I created shortcuts on her iPad to make it easier for her! Organized and efficient technology makes everyday tasks much easier.
As soon as I started the project, I had an immediate realization: I don’t actually know a lot of the restaurants in Bend. Isn’t that weird? I’ve lived here for nearly eight years now and found several restaurants that I had never heard of! I had to do a little extra research to determine how the restaurant links needed to be organized, but I didn’t mind. It just made me hungry and ready to try some new foods!
Even though I had a slow start, I eventually got in a groove. I love work like this, work that has a routine. It’s satisfying and really makes sense to me. Projects like this make the perfectionist in me very happy! Although, as soon as it seemed like I was getting the system down, the iPad started to buffer. It got slower and slower until it just stopped working. No, I didn’t break anything, the wifi was just slow. The iPad was also not updated and couldn’t reach a lot of the restaurant websites. I did some troubleshooting with Stephanie, and even though we didn’t figure out a perfect solution, we found a way to make the work manageable. This process reminded me that I need to have patience. Little tasks like this one can become frustrating, but stressing out won’t do any good. Sometimes, you have to take a step back, take a deep breath, and try to find a new solution. While technology can be an amazing tool, it can also be quite a pain.
I finished my project just before it was time for me to go. I felt pretty proud of my organizational skills. There were still restaurants that I didn’t know anything about, so I just put their website links in an “other” folder. Luckily, Stephanie and I share a similar way of thinking, and she said it was fine. Next week, I am planning on resuming the photo archive project with David Miller. I have some really exciting announcements coming soon, so be on the lookout! Have a great day and thank you for reading today’s post. :)
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