Job Shadowing Experience

My job shadowing experience was pretty fun. I went with Tucker to the Prairie Capital Convention Center to job shadow a guy named om from Audio Techni Services. Even though there was not much going on at the center, it was still a pretty fun experience. For example, Tucker and i got to go onto the catwalk at the top of the center and we got special access to places i have never seen in that building before what we learned from that tour was that most of the audio equipment in the center is extremely outdated to the point where no one uses three quarters of it. I was amazed to hear that. After the tour, Tom took us back to the warehouse where the company stores most of its stuff. First, we got a tour of that, and then Tom just talked to us for about an hour or so. He told us that in the warehouse, they had well over one million dollars of equipment. What i learned is that while you make a lot of money in the business of setting up concerts, you have to spend tons of money on the equipment you need.

After that, Tucker and i went to Blue Stream Records in Petersburg. While this was pretty fun, it was kind of boring because there was a lot of sitting around involved. We got to meet the two in charge of the studio, which is not complete yet, and they kind of told us what they were all about. After that, they recorded us for a little while just talking, and we got to mess around with some studio effects. After that, we talked and hung out some more and then Tucker and i went home. What i learned from this was that recording takes a lot of practice and time and money actually as well. I don't know if i would ever want to go into this profession, but it was a good experience anyway.