I learned some things at work today that had nothing to do with my actual job. My assignment today was to learn the camera and title operation for the "Coffee Break" morning show, then to do closed captioning for the "Star Talk" series that our school does. This is where the instructors give lectures not necessarily related to their field, but maybe about things they have experience with or have learned.

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Boring!

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So for those that don't know, when you do close captioning, you basically have an A.I. program go through the video and it returns a long string of words based on what it thinks was said. This string of words is very often wrong, and the punctuation is pretty much always wrong, at least in our system it is.

The bottom line is, the job is extremely boring.

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Wait, I get to watch the videos.

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I knew how to do the close caption from learning it in class, and I hated it then. When I was told that was going to be my job today, you could hear the audible groan. But, my job is my job and I do what I am told, so I got to work.

It did not take me long to realize that the lectures were not boring, as a matter of fact, they were very interesting!

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Different topics.

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There are quite a few lectures that need to be captioned, and as I started to work through them, I got to hear different lectures from different instructors about different topics.

The first one I did was about Transgender acceptance. Now, this is not something I necessarily agree with, being a Christian, but I could relate to the emotions that were expressed by the people involved. I realized that no matter what I think about the lifestyle, they are people that deserve respect, and they are often denied this

The next video I did was from a business instructor and it was talking about the different ways that he found to get the students involved with community projects. Interesting, but pretty bland.

The last video I did was very emotional. It was a lady that was from Cambodia and lived through the Pol Pot regime. She told about the "Killing Fields" and what her family went through. It was a very heartwrenching story and I was almost in tears as I was watching it.

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What is the point?

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I think I learned today to use every situation as a learning experience no matter how disagreeable the original assignment may be. Any day you don't learn something is a wasted day!

As always, Thank you and God Bless!

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