Week 11 Post

Ever had an "off" day?  A spill your coffee on a white shirt, call a coworker the wrong name, burn your dinner kind of day?  That was my in the Maker Studio at Indian Prairie recently. I was working a program where we were helping patrons heat press images onto tote bags and one of the steps involves pulling a backing material off of the image after the initial heating. For whatever reason, half of the ones that I peeled all had some sort of flaw that caused the image to distort and shred. I asked the staff member in charge to help me troubleshoot what I was doing wrong, but everything he came up with I was already doing right. He started to get frustrated to the point where a patron (bless you, Eloise) stepped in to defend me saying that I was doing everything exactly the way that I was instructed and that maybe the problem was with the materials or the instructions themselves. I think by the end of the evening the staff member realized that he was being unfair as he offered to let me make a bag as well (which I declined), but I left the program feeling dejected and a bit worthless. What good was I was I as an intern if I couldn't even peel a piece of backing off properly? I did not feel like I was living up to the tenants of excellence that we're supposed to in ANY of the industry standards we learn about in this course. But the good news is that every new day is a fresh chance to rally. And rally I did. Stay tuned.

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  1. GabrielNovember 15, 2024 at 9:47 AM

    Again this is any standard that has to do with professionalism and tech. Keeping your cool and sincere effort are professional, while fails or mistakes are part of all life. Staying abreast of tech is vital but hard. It could simply be you have not practiced enough to do what you think ought be simple.

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