Summertime in the athletic department is not a vacation. Sure, there are fewer student athletes roaming around and far fewer events, but there is still work to be done. This week I helped with some more manual labor. The Field Hockey and Lacrosse offices were being painted so all of the furniture had to be moved.
The professionals came in and did the actual painting, I was glad to not take part in that. To get through all of the offices and move whatever furniture we could and cover what we could only get to the middle of the room took several hours. It was just my supervisor and I but we worked as a team to accomplish it.
The painters took a day to do their work and a couple of days later when we felt it was completely dry we hopped to it and put the furniture back where it belonged.
As I have said in a previous post about how things need to get done and they are not always fun or exciting. This was another example of that. I’m sure that because I was intern help it was easier to ask me than a regular staff member and that is fine. I was happy to help and I can’t say this experience in particular was very enlightening in any way except for another reality check that although athletics is fun and exciting, somebody out there is working behind the scenes to do the grunt work.
I think that is something important we all remember and are humbled to occasionally if we are lucky enough to work in the field.
The professionals came in and did the actual painting, I was glad to not take part in that. To get through all of the offices and move whatever furniture we could and cover what we could only get to the middle of the room took several hours. It was just my supervisor and I but we worked as a team to accomplish it.
The painters took a day to do their work and a couple of days later when we felt it was completely dry we hopped to it and put the furniture back where it belonged.
As I have said in a previous post about how things need to get done and they are not always fun or exciting. This was another example of that. I’m sure that because I was intern help it was easier to ask me than a regular staff member and that is fine. I was happy to help and I can’t say this experience in particular was very enlightening in any way except for another reality check that although athletics is fun and exciting, somebody out there is working behind the scenes to do the grunt work.
I think that is something important we all remember and are humbled to occasionally if we are lucky enough to work in the field.