Track meets

I thought that when I didn't accept the offer to coach high jump this year, i was able to get away from track and the amount of time it took up. Apparently not. This year, the university decided that they were going to add in a video element to their track meets and they approached me to be the Video Director of everything. I thought it would be easy since I've done stuff like this before. Apparently not. It started out well but then got frustrating and overloaded for what they want to do.

First, I have no problem coming up with crew, but it is the crew that doesn't work with me. First off, when you commit to something, you'd better have a good reason not to show up (or not to even call and say what is going on). Reliability isn't what it used to be. There is no way that I would act like that towards someone giving me a job to do. If I can't make it, I let people know about it and in as much advance as I can so they have a chance to find someone else to replace me or I come up with someone to replace me. I had a crew of 7 set, ready to go and when Friday came around, only 3 of them showed up and I haven't heard anything from the others. Looks like my list of people that I can't trust to work with has just gotten longer. Apparently Responsibility, Reliability, and Accountability isn't held high any more.

I think this can all work out well, it is just the ability to do what I need to do with people I can trust. And they were even going to get paid.

At least for now, the track season is over and I have my weekends back. Now it is on to finding a summer job and something more for next fall . . . which is harder than it looks, but that is for another post.