Behind the Locked Door, Part 2

Each month I'm going to try to give you a couple of glimpses into the life of a Ticket Chick. Now, depending on where the Ticket Peeps in your life work, things could be totally different. It's not a normal job that can be easily defined. To try and answer the "But what do you actually do besides just sell tickets?" I've taken to this mini-series that will span the course of the year for you.

Today is Camp Day.

To most people, that probably sounds like fun. Some team building exercises, arts and crafts, food that you secretly like but you can't say you like it because then you won't be the cool kid of camp, maybe a camp dance where you promise to be BFFs with the people you met, but you probably won't write email or call like you said you would.

Camp Day is a dreaded day in this office.

My morning was spent reconciling camp payments to the spreadsheet to make sure that the money we say we brought in for registration is actually what we brought in for registration. Auditors tend to like when these things match up, and so do we.

Baseball and soccer winter camps are complete, so today's focus is softball camp. My morning focus was on imputing all of the campers that registered the day of camp, and then reconciling all of the online registrations with the payments that we have received for those. (Have I mentioned there are LOTS of people who register online?)

Does this sound like fun yet? What if I told you that I had Fall Out Boy playing the background? It's still boring, isn't it?

CAMP BREAK - I took a quick camp break to stuff softball season ticket renewals and run them over to the post office. Fresh air? Sunshine? Who knew those existed between the hours of 7:30am-5pm?

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LUNCH BREAK

Ate, continued reading one of my latest books, began drafting this blog post.

Call me crazy, but Stauffer's mac & cheese with pepperoni is one of my go-to offices lunches.

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Back to the daily grind of camps. I spent two hours of my afternoon alphabetizing camp forms and sorting them into sessions. You would be surprised at how much effort that takes out of you. My mental capacity is close to being shot and I still have two hours left to the day. (Hence why I'm taking a break to type this. It's taken longer to type this than anything should, if I'm being honest.)

Since my brain is dead, I may as well take a snack break, right? 

How to spend these last two hours? Hmm...

I opt for something that doesn't require much mental capacity, printing baseball season tickets. Our fans have the option of paper tickets for each game, or one card for the whole season. Since the cards will be here any day now, I figured today was as good of a time as any to begin printing the hard tickets.

Since my printers are a little old, and tend to get slow as you print large amounts of tickets, this will be more of a two day process. I figure if I can get at least the first half knocked out today, then I can do the second half tomorrow and have them ready to go for next week.

See you on the next edition of Behind the Locked Door!