Promotion Official!

As of last Friday I have officially been promoted from Student Worker III to Student Technician I at the Texas A&M Student Computing Center!! The guy who had the job before graduated last December and they needed someone to take over his position. Basically, what I'll be doing is managing the Video Workstation on the second floor. At the Video Workstation, students and faculty can come in and use the powerful computers to do just about anything you can think of with media. For example, they can transfer VHS to DVD, mini DV's to a DVD, etc. etc. You can also create your own video from scratch, do video editing, and stuff like that. Now my job comes in when people have issues. Most common question: "How do I transfer a VHS to a DVD and create my own title menu like they do on DVD movies?" I've got that down now:D Other than that, my job is to sit there and help people when they have problems doing what they do know how to do and to show people how to do things they don't know how to do (that was a mouthful).

All in all, the promotion comes with a big raise, which is kinda why I accepted it in the first place:D Along with all this comes with one minor annoyance. "Since Justin is the 'Video King', he knows everything about video, right?" Of course!:P (yeah, right). Only problem with that is it tends to carry over to the other aspect of the job: working on the lab floor in general customer service. "Since Justin is the "Video King" he not only must know everything about video, but he must know everything about everything!" Thus, now all the student workers come to me when they have any issues they can't solve. Ironically enough, the raise does come with a price, but I suppose that's what responsibility is all about:)