So lesson fo': Never be afraid to ask questions.
You know that old saying that "there's no such things as stupid questions?" Well, fuck, whoever said that is totally wrong. Of course there's such a thing! There are ALWAYS dumb questions that can be asked--the real issue is, if it's worth asking.
Take today at work for example. I was supposed to produce a segment from (read: steal a segment idea from) the network level CBS Early Show for our local station. My boss told me to look up the segment. But when she told me, she just said an early show, not "the Early Show" (with the caps, making it a proper noun, meaning I would've known it was the network level show, not one of our own local early shows). So I'm searching around our local CBS show site for the segment and cannot find it AT ALL. Now of course, I probably should've assume she meant the network level show because, why would we wanna re-show a segment that was put on like ten hours ago? But I had just worked a ten hour shift the night before and was butt-fuck tired. So in any case, I spent wasted minutes looking up the stuff and holding our cameraman up when I just should've swallowed my pride and asked my boss. When I finally did, she didn't even roll her eyes or anything (at least not outside where I could see) and clarified that it was a network level segment.
That definitely wasn't an interesting story. But the moral of the story is that if I had the balls and was humble enough to ask for help and ask what I thought was a dumb question, I could've saved myself and my cameraman a lot of time. There's probably more meaningful examples, but like I said, I'm tired. I don't owe you anything. You read this, you enjoy it, and you figure it out. Love you!
-P
Jack's Mannequin - Televsion
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