Do you have any job skills that are now obsolete?

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414. Yeah, i get it. It's not quite but similar to my work in the art dept except I didn't do layouts...

although there was the one week at a different job; a small catalouge house w in house photography where I helped set up jewelry & watches in a small room inside the big 2 story back space when the AD was on vacation. My boss the head photographer knew I had art & design background so they dragged me up front to the Art Dept, and had me do some layouts for a small catalog, then do the pu & m* for it with other 2 pu & m people.

I hope you enjoyed sports enough to work on that section bc of the hecticness! Esp having to make a redo from later game photos.

I enjoy sports enough to appreciate a great move, and a good photo in about any sport. Baseball is what I used to watch for team sports. Though I also love Olympic Hockey esp bc they almost never fight, and mess up the game!

Back at the magazine we had time to put a xerox or stat in place for our photos inside of just leaving a space & FPO.

At the catalouge house my friend was one of a few people doing hard goods. They rarely did food as the actual item, but had food often for visual embellishments. So while we could put our bag lunches in, it was often stocked with foods for shoots. 😄

Though one time the client was eating the shrimp after the shoot was taken, but the photos hadn't yet been returned from the outside photoshop; was actually was one of actual food items! Duh! Someone had to go get more to replace them!

Our photographers usyally used 8x10 cameras on stands. We'd get back 8 x 10 chromes. Occasionally smaller ones. I still have 1 of a experimental jewelry layout design idea I did when we had some down time.

Anything stand out as a really interesting food shoot for you?

Since our jewelry work was usually showing things for the next season I had to go out in the coldish weather, some snow still on the ground in Feb to the Flower Market X blocks away for flowers for a spring themed shoot. Got them extra wrapped up to keep them safe from the cold winds!

*I think you'll get a laugh out of this...
So, I'm in the AD working on the last pages of pu & m. However, it was also 1986 and the last game of the Met's World Series!

We had the radio on but, I wanted to go home, and see it on TV. Finally we were free! I dashed into the subway.
When I got to the change over station someone had a boom box on the walkway above me, and yelled "what's happening?!"
They tell me. Back onto my next, and final train.

I practically run home down our long hill. I do get there in time to see the last 1 1/2 innings! And the rest was Met's ⚾️ History. 🎉 😄
And I did go to their Ticker Tape parade!
(Yankees, too),