Life Challenged

So, in this fabulous reporter world of job searching, technologically challenged people cannot exist. I know I do not come from the prehistoric world of actually just sending someone a resume on paper in the mail. Nope, I grew up in the information age in which everything is digital and employees are available at the click of a mouse. I HATE IT!!

I was talking to my friend mike on the phone he was trying to help me with my digital problems where I am life challenged. He kept saying you have to bring your self down to the machines level. Ummmm...doesn't he mean up to its level.

If you want a reporting job you have to make a tape, a reel of your work per say that a news director would look at and say ewwww this looks pretty. Well this involves an extensive knowledge of acronyms of which I am relatively unfamiliar...like MPEG DVCAM BETA DVCPRO VHS DVD+R DVD-R DVD+-RW CDR these all mean things related to my tape but are sooooooo different. If something is in one of these I have to put it in the other. To make a long story short I have successfully put all of my lives work separately on to one of all of these. And it is really fun to try and figure out how to get it on to a VHS for a news director.

I called mike because I had hooked up a TV in the back bed room with 2 VCR's connected to it. Easy enough, I want to copy one VHS to another VHS. Not that simple. All of the plugs in the room were geniously installed by an electrician who conveniently made only the bottom plug hot. So I have the TV in one Outlet and and one VCR in another and another VCR in another. all simultaneously hooked up to each other. It looked like a lifesize game of mousetrap from 1984.

I couldn't get anything to record to anything. I'm not cut out for this. I said to mike asking a reporter to take a DVCPRO tape and digitally copy their tape to a PC edit it burn it to a DVD and then put it back in VHS format, just to get a job, is like asking an IT Tech to do a song and dance in their interview.