Hi all!
I stumbled upon this forum while searching through google for who knows what about two months ago and never actually took the time to say hello! I've been reading through a lot of the posts and I've been finding so many interesting topics it never really crossed my mind.
I'm mainly a lighting guy, though I've been moving into more of a "let's get my hands in everything" kind of position recently. I'm 21, just graduated college in December with a degree in electrical and computer engineering (yeah, didn't do technical theater, though it is a consideration in the back of my mind to go back for that).
I'm not really on a crew, I help out at my high school as much as possible. They started bringing me back as a contractor after I was still helping out for a full year after I graduated (what can I say, I enjoyed it!). I'm more of like a stage crew advisor without the salary and without having to teach at the school full time. I enjoy what I do and like having a challenge, and helping out with the high school crew fits both bills.
I worked with a few people who really knew what they were doing while I was in the school, so I picked up a lot, and now I'm trying to share that knowledge with the current students, because there really isn't anyone like that left. Though my predecessor as LD just came back with a teaching position this year...
Our auditorium is falling to pieces, like many other high schools, and I've been trying to help them figure out how to make the most out of what we have, which isn't much. But for what we've got, I think we do an excellent job. I help out at Commack High School in New York btw.
So yeah, I think I'll let that wrap it up.
Happy to be here, looking forward to finding lots of interesting things!
I stumbled upon this forum while searching through google for who knows what about two months ago and never actually took the time to say hello! I've been reading through a lot of the posts and I've been finding so many interesting topics it never really crossed my mind.
I'm mainly a lighting guy, though I've been moving into more of a "let's get my hands in everything" kind of position recently. I'm 21, just graduated college in December with a degree in electrical and computer engineering (yeah, didn't do technical theater, though it is a consideration in the back of my mind to go back for that).
I'm not really on a crew, I help out at my high school as much as possible. They started bringing me back as a contractor after I was still helping out for a full year after I graduated (what can I say, I enjoyed it!). I'm more of like a stage crew advisor without the salary and without having to teach at the school full time. I enjoy what I do and like having a challenge, and helping out with the high school crew fits both bills.
I worked with a few people who really knew what they were doing while I was in the school, so I picked up a lot, and now I'm trying to share that knowledge with the current students, because there really isn't anyone like that left. Though my predecessor as LD just came back with a teaching position this year...
Our auditorium is falling to pieces, like many other high schools, and I've been trying to help them figure out how to make the most out of what we have, which isn't much. But for what we've got, I think we do an excellent job. I help out at Commack High School in New York btw.
So yeah, I think I'll let that wrap it up.
Happy to be here, looking forward to finding lots of interesting things!