What do I even do there?
Short Answer: Workshop Director/ Podcast host. For the last two years my weeks consist of researching interesting/relative guests, reaching out, getting ghosted on any social platform you can think of, furiously writing questions for that weeks guest, and preparing for that weeks podcasts (with you guessed it, more questions.) I try to bridge the gap between my peers and the professionals we bring in. The best way to do this is by asking useful, witty, or unusual questions.
Whether its reviving the once dead After Hours Podcast, with my partner in crime Noah Mayers, or furiously combating the dead silence in the room when our guests ask if anyone has questions, aside from my actual duties, my only real objective at After Hours is to use my people and question skills to help younger kids in the SOJC.
To reduce what I do here too numbers: over 40 workshops, 9 Podcasts, and HUNDREDS of questions total for both. ( I would love to figure out how many actual questions Ive written and asked over the years.)
Why does any of this matter?
Talking with as many different people as possible is important. But asking the right question is just as important.
How else can you change your perspective?
What started as a job a didn’t think I’d get has turned into an outlet for me to have a positive impact on my peers. Without getting to sappy… Being a Workshop director and Host has boosted both my confidence in myself and my ideas as well as my ability to ask the right questions. As a person who started with almost no question confidence, over the last 2 years, and hundreds of questions for any situation later, it feels like Ive got it down to a science. It’s all about finding the perfect line between a passionate tangent, relativity, and pure informative inspiration.
Last, but certainly not least, I would not be anything with out the rest of my team. They work so hard and Im happy to be apart of a team that have similar values in wanting to leave a legacy on the UO SOJC.