3 Campuses, 3 Schedules, 3 Heads, 1 Preacher, 4 Blank Stares
The part of this job I did not know existed is the beast of a schedule it takes to plan out the year.
At one moment this morning, Andy, Julie, Tyler, and I had this exact look on our face. All at the same time.
Andy is now preaching at all three campuses, one series here, another there, another way out there.
And as happens at every church, things change.
And when they do, we have one moment on a Tuesday morning when we look like this.
On What part of your job does your brain fart the most often?
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
I see your nose is healing nicely…
How about every part of my job? Is that a valid answer?
Definately planning out the year…. we’re still trying to figure out how to do it…
maybe part of the problem is the wall of tiny little cards filled with WORDS WRITTEN BACKWARDS??!???
What part of my job does this to me?
1. annual calendaring (because we don’t have any idea what we’re doing)
2. when I get asked how I can continue leading worship with a band when it’s not Biblically correct to do so.
I hate the detailed stuff. Why can’t everything be fun and creative?
You may have already done this but I think it would be fun to see a little more of what goes on behind the scenes at your job. Maybe you could write a couple of blog posts about some of the day-to-day stuff you do, how you do it, fun and frustrations. Stuff like that.
Just an idea.
Brad Ruggles
http://www.bradruggles.com
Writing work instructions for coworkers which should be fundamental knowledge for their level of support.
Transcribing recordings of long interviews and/or events. Especially when I only come out with 3 good quotes from 12 pages of transcript. My brain usually implodes at that point.
Hey Brad. Merry Christmas…
http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?cat=47
When I’m told to reach more students(grow #’s) whithin the confines of the traditions of our big Baptist church….yea right.
most recently: promoting a change in service times with one week notice.
1. writing out p.o.’s for events. i always forget.
2. when i try to understand what people in our congregation are thinking sometimes. (it really makes no sense)
3. doing annual budget.
4. wondering why we support alot of mission work financially (this is good dont get me wrong), but then wondering why we as a church have never planned a mission trip outside of the country.
Well seeing as my job consists of me saying “Welcome to (fill in this blank with a restaurant name) how many in your party” and “How was everything” followed by rolling 7000 sets of silverware… there’s not much that my brain can fart on! My job is like a vacation from my 4 kids. Oh the joys of working a high schoolers job when you’re 31!
Brain fart = our church leadership wanting to run live video with lower thirds on the side two screens, and lower thirds with motion/static backgrounds on the center screen (with capability to run all three screens with the same video content), with b&w text on the back screen simultaneously. And, this has to be done with no money. Also, the cameras shooting live video cannot be seen – which means they are more than 80 ft from the action. Oh, and you have to recruit and train people to run the equipment. Lastly, the switching machine we spent all our money on has a 3-5 frame delay “issue” that you’ll have to fix.
Thhhbbbbtttttt.
Your nose is still recovering I see.
sometimes large video files get jacked up in ProPresenter and the audio doesn’t match up to the video. it’s sporadic and maddening
and people look at me like, “why don’t you fix it?” um…because i don’t know how. i might should upgrade to 4GB, but it’d suck if i dropped $700 and it didn’t fix the problem…
When customers ask me math questions. Like “What would the penalty be if I withdrew this amount from my cd?” “Umm…90 days interest?” “And what exactly is that?” “Umm…”
Or,
“What is the difference between the interest rate and the APY?” “Umm…”
Or when the computer messes up and I have to figure out what went wrong and figure out the cash to dispense myself.
I work at a bank and am horrible at even the simplest math. Thank God for computers!
That’s the look I get when I’m having car problems, or read a doctors hand written prescription
When my boss, (my pastor), says “Julie, can you step in my office for a moment?? What have the youth done now??
Brother…job? What job? I am still in awe of your father of the year nose! It looks great! (our whole church staff got a kick out of that story.)
When someone gives me what they believe to be a “good” idea, (including myself) and I have no clue what to do with the info.
Trying to keep up with the same schedule you’re referring to and producing TenBefore videos fo 3 northpoint campuses. Rebecca M. are you converting your quicktime videos to “.DV streams”… That’s what all our digital playback is for NPCC, from virtual Andy to baptisms. It generally is a fix for ProP.
Great idea to have him rotate! I’m curious what the response will be to that.
hey matt g — nope, we weren’t doing that. we usually use h264 or Sorensen 3 and .mov files… thank you SO MUCH for the advice, you just saved me a ton of headaches!
When I have to ask my coworker a question and she starts practically crying as she says “I don’t really know how to do this and I’m tired of people asking me questions and I hate doing this…”. Its this same answer, all the time, no matter what the question… ughhhhhhhhhhh – It reminds me of when I lived at my parents’ house with 3 sisters UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I’d love to know what the sticky notes mean – how you organize for the year – what each color stands for – I’m thinking of trying something like this on my office window!