The Tapes That Almost Broke Me

I like to listen to music and read inspirational quotes to get me through the tough times, and as an intern we are expected to do grunt work and have a few tough times that make us really question not only our selves but our career choice. This week I had a lot of questions regarding if sports is where I want to be, and if I am cut out for what the sports world has to offer. besides from talking with my friends who all reassured me that I was in the right spot I heard a song by Pink that said, "Where there is desire, there is gonna be a flame, Where there is a flame, Someone's bound to get burned but just because it burns,doesn't mean you're going to die, You've gotta get up and try " and I realized she was right. I needed keep trying despite my spirits being down.

Photo By: Nikki Romanuk

As an intern we are required to do grunt work. I get “paying your dues”, and what not but I just felt I was the only intern paying them. Here is what killed my spirits. There is this wall full of old sports tapes, you should know before everything went digital believe it or not we did record everything and kept all those tapes.

Any ways all of those sports tapes are kept in a giant wall and were only organized according by team; the major four Boston sports Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins. There is also a section of old high school and college tapes. The producer had asked us interns on different nights to organize the tapes according to years, because they were already in teams. 

I had already done the Celtics and the Bruins and created labels for them using posits because I had no tape or stickers. Anyways the other two interns were supposed to have worked together to organize the other two teams, seems reasonable. Well Chad had asked me when all the tapes were edited to write down what labels needed to be made so he could print them out. 

Here is the problem. When I went to look at the tapes, I noticed that the Patriots and the Red Sox were not organized at all. I saw all the years mixed together with random labels thrown on the shelf to make it look like they were organized. When I told Chad I was asked to redo the wall. 

I took me over four hours to organize just one of the teams. This was on a Thursday night so there was another intern there. What upset me is ,I was organizing tapes, and wearing a dress which I have to mention I got some rug burns, and the other intern was playing golf in the studio, and watching me do all the work. I felt very upset.

Photo By: Nikki Romanuk

The next time I came into the studio was on Sunday, I assumed that the other team would be done, but just my luck I received an email from Chad asking me to finish the wall and organize the last team too. I was not happy about this because I felt like I was doing all the grunt work while the other interns got to cut highlights and shoot standups. 

I finally talked to one of the producer who is only there a few nights of the week who advised me to talk to Chad about the problem. I did finish the wall it took me another four hours to finally finish. And I did finally get to learn how to cut a highlight (which I hope to teach myself more of). 

Later I will get to talk to Chad, and that will be a whole new post.