Not that I mind a good challenge, but I'm getting tired of being thrown behind a system I have yet to be trained on. Granted, I know a pretty good share of general sound knowledge now, but every installation has its nuances. So having me run events where it's very probably that I'm going to have to do something that requires me to have more in depth knowledge of how that specific system is set up without giving me some kind of overview is just asking for trouble.

A simple setup that should have taking me 15 minutes last night took about 2 hours, given that the way the sanctuary is actually set up compares to how I thought it should have been.

I also find troubleshooting excessively difficult if not a goddamn thing is labled.

*sigh* So, here I am again, getting ready to run choir/orchestra rehearsal, and I'm in a world of hurt. Took me awhile to track down the source of a problem with three of our monitering systems (which was a simple fix had the routes only been labled), then I had to bump through every single channel of the board to find out where the choir mics are normalled to. (Again, would have been niced if the labels weren't smudged off; "c o|r +" doesn't mean much to me.) Still having issues with one of the choir mics...I'm thinking now it's an already known issue...would have been nice if I had been told BEFORE I went and traced down the unplugged cable.)

I'm predicting that this is going to be a disasterous two days. And I was just barely starting to not completely hate this job.

I'd much rather be at home working on the growing list of flyers I need to do for the rest of this year's shows.

Tomorrow: work, then Midnight.

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