You can run, but you can’t hide from The Wenatchee World’s seen @
Sometimes work just follows you around wherever you go, even when you’re off the clock.
I am sure that is a sentiment everyone can relate to, but it seems especially true for me in my role as a reporter. I often find myself as far away from work as possible thinking about story ideas, or questioning why something was reported the way it was while watching the TV news.
I think it is strange how my professional work life interacts with my personal life. Sometimes I get frustrated by not being able to turn off the work aspect of my brain, but I am also somewhat pleased with myself because being a journalist is such a large part of my personal identity that I really can’t escape it.
Last weekend, while enjoying a music festival with fellow Wenatchee World reporter Bent Stecker over in Redmond at Marymoor Park, a young woman approached us both and took our picture. She then handed us a plastic card with a barcode on it and said we could go online and enter the code to view our picture.
After this happened, Brent turned to me and said “We were both just seen at.”
In case you’re unfamiliar with what a my colleague meant by us both having been “seen at,” you can click here to find out.
The reason why being “seen at” while not on the clock is relevant to this blog post is because part of my new position here at The World as online reporter involves me shooting “scene @” galleries.
So while I was not at work and doing possibly the lest work-related thing I did all weekend, work somehow found a way of tracking me down in a funny, somewhat odd manner.