Microsoft Conference
Sunday through Wednesday I worked at the Microsoft Conference in downtown Seattle. GTC does this as a fundraiser to keep down tuition costs. The pay is amazing, $17 per hour and we were working 16 hour days! Unfortunately, none of this money goes directly to us, but rather to the program.
On Sunday, we only had a meeting during which we were told what the different jobs were and how to carry them out. Three of us were to work on inputting information on computers while the other ten of us were room monitors. As a room monitor, the person hands out and collects surveys and keeps the trash picked up in the room. We also answered peoples' questions and pointed them in the right direction.
Monday I was told that I was one of the lucky three that got to input the survey information. Pretty much we used a spreadsheet program to say what people thought about the speakers. I did that for quite a few hours. Towards the end, my carpal tunnel thing started acting up though so I switched off with someone in charge of room monitoring. In the evening, we were invited to the Microsoft VIP halloween party. Microsoft rented out the Space Needle, EMP, and Sc-Fi Museum. They bought all of us GTCers costumes and so we pretty much enjoyed the party. We even had the private room at the EMP for our use which was pretty sweet. The food was really good and they hired break dancers which was pretty cool.
The next two days we did the same jobs. Microsoft had catered meals for us which were pretty good also. On Tuesday we went to Pastor Steve's house and played mafia which was fun. Pastor Steve made hot peanut butter cookies for us too.
So thats whats been going on with me...
Dewa!
On Sunday, we only had a meeting during which we were told what the different jobs were and how to carry them out. Three of us were to work on inputting information on computers while the other ten of us were room monitors. As a room monitor, the person hands out and collects surveys and keeps the trash picked up in the room. We also answered peoples' questions and pointed them in the right direction.
Monday I was told that I was one of the lucky three that got to input the survey information. Pretty much we used a spreadsheet program to say what people thought about the speakers. I did that for quite a few hours. Towards the end, my carpal tunnel thing started acting up though so I switched off with someone in charge of room monitoring. In the evening, we were invited to the Microsoft VIP halloween party. Microsoft rented out the Space Needle, EMP, and Sc-Fi Museum. They bought all of us GTCers costumes and so we pretty much enjoyed the party. We even had the private room at the EMP for our use which was pretty sweet. The food was really good and they hired break dancers which was pretty cool.
The next two days we did the same jobs. Microsoft had catered meals for us which were pretty good also. On Tuesday we went to Pastor Steve's house and played mafia which was fun. Pastor Steve made hot peanut butter cookies for us too.
So thats whats been going on with me...
Dewa!
posted by Emily at 11:18 AM
3 Comments:
What?! Since when was work supposed to result in fun?
That is really awesome that Microsoft did all those things for you afterwards. So... what'd you go as? :)
I was the tin man from the Wizard of Oz. Ryan was the scarecrow and he asked me to be the tin man, I figured that was better than being a pink lady which was my other choice.
Sweet! That sounds awesome.
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