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ConFuzzled 2010 - A Staff Perspective
May. 11th, 2010 12:54 amFirst of all I'd like to point out that I am incredibly tired right now. I've come straight from CF to working a 12hr shift, with another three to follow this, so this post may ramble.
ConFuzzled is something I feel immensely proud of, along with RBW. It's taken me a while to figure out exactly what Convention Operations should do and a lot of behind the scenes errors have been made in the past. Even after this weekend I realise that my perception of the role isn't complete, but it's a helluva lot clearer now.
I count myself to be lucky that I've been doing the same job from the inception of both CF and RBW, but also a little disappointed in myself that it's taken so long for the pieces to start falling into place.
Despite being run off my feet (along with everyone else on staff) I'm not sure on exactly how I saw CF this year. Sure I enjoyed working and was swept up in the inner workings of the con, but now that I'm sat at work I'm finding myself rather depressed. Once I realised just how quickly the weekend had gone by I also realised that the time I had to myself was incredibly minimal.
Conversations with attendees never lasted more than five minutes, I missed the PawPets Show due to scheduling (my own fault, really), routinely had little more than four hours of sleep each night and only two meals a day (one on Saturday), had about five units of alcohol across the weekend, and in three days I only suited for three to four hours.
And this isn't just me: Every single staff member has probably experienced the same things (except for missing the PawPet show in most cases).
Now, please don't read this wrong as I'm not bitter about the con. There are many perks that accompany the hard work, from something as simple the staff goodies to knowing that we've made 350 people have a wonderful weekend and proving once again that the UK Furry Fandom is not full of failures who couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
Working 18+ hour days for fun is a mixed bag, and it is worth it to see the smiles on the faces of the attendees, but boy does it take it's toll.
I don't think I'd be so meh if I had tonight off work and could have stayed to the Dead Dog party, but such is life.
I wonder if my current ambivalent feelings are due to having to come straight to work after CF or not, but I certainly feel that I've not done much that I wanted to do. This must change, for every staff member of CF and RBW. I'm not going to let this happen again.
TL;DR
CF rocked but I'm annoyed that I was working most of it, didn't get to relax, couldn't get drunk, etc. Going to see if I can rememdy this for CF and RBW.
Addendum:
This makes me smile. Hot damn I enjoy playing Radinov.
ConFuzzled is something I feel immensely proud of, along with RBW. It's taken me a while to figure out exactly what Convention Operations should do and a lot of behind the scenes errors have been made in the past. Even after this weekend I realise that my perception of the role isn't complete, but it's a helluva lot clearer now.
I count myself to be lucky that I've been doing the same job from the inception of both CF and RBW, but also a little disappointed in myself that it's taken so long for the pieces to start falling into place.
Despite being run off my feet (along with everyone else on staff) I'm not sure on exactly how I saw CF this year. Sure I enjoyed working and was swept up in the inner workings of the con, but now that I'm sat at work I'm finding myself rather depressed. Once I realised just how quickly the weekend had gone by I also realised that the time I had to myself was incredibly minimal.
Conversations with attendees never lasted more than five minutes, I missed the PawPets Show due to scheduling (my own fault, really), routinely had little more than four hours of sleep each night and only two meals a day (one on Saturday), had about five units of alcohol across the weekend, and in three days I only suited for three to four hours.
And this isn't just me: Every single staff member has probably experienced the same things (except for missing the PawPet show in most cases).
Now, please don't read this wrong as I'm not bitter about the con. There are many perks that accompany the hard work, from something as simple the staff goodies to knowing that we've made 350 people have a wonderful weekend and proving once again that the UK Furry Fandom is not full of failures who couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
Working 18+ hour days for fun is a mixed bag, and it is worth it to see the smiles on the faces of the attendees, but boy does it take it's toll.
I don't think I'd be so meh if I had tonight off work and could have stayed to the Dead Dog party, but such is life.
I wonder if my current ambivalent feelings are due to having to come straight to work after CF or not, but I certainly feel that I've not done much that I wanted to do. This must change, for every staff member of CF and RBW. I'm not going to let this happen again.
TL;DR
CF rocked but I'm annoyed that I was working most of it, didn't get to relax, couldn't get drunk, etc. Going to see if I can rememdy this for CF and RBW.
Addendum:
This makes me smile. Hot damn I enjoy playing Radinov.
