Today
My broadcasting system failed me again tonight. And no I didn’t hit any wrong buttons. But hitting the RIGHT buttons repeatedly yielded zero results, and I had to go in a back way.
The very way I learned completely by accident on Friday. Which worked like a charm tonight as my desperate Plan B.
Go figure.
As I was struggling to launch the thing the traditional way, everyone said goodbye and frolicked out. “Hope you figure out how to fix it!”
I fixed it, all right.
And when I fixed it, my colleague was having broadcasting problems of his own.
Now I could have said, “Oh hey, good luck!” like everyone else did.
But that’s not me. Captain and ship and all that jazz.
I hung around and offered help. He tried what he knew. Then he said, OK, since you stayed and might have an idea.
I found the problem quickly.
In any event, even though I’m at about a 47 on the 1-to-10 anxiety scale, I was really glad that A) I didn’t need anybody to help me, and B) I could help someone else in an area that’s inadvertently become an expertise.
It’s an hour of my life I won’t get back, but it sure beat what else I had planned for that hour-ish. Jobs are all about people — that’s what you leave behind, and that’s what you take with you. So, if I measure by that, I’ll call it a good day.