When I was starting out as a TV transmission controller in 1999, I had to make bundles of notes on how to do the job I was now being paid for, partly because I’d come from years working in shops and warehouses and there I was, training to press buttons for a living.
Slightly unnerving, and I questioned my career change more than once around that time.
The idea was that I take quick, rough notes as I was being shown how to do something then write them up that evening so that I could read and understand them in six months’ time (and so could anyone else who wanted to use them).
It was a practice that served me well for years, not only when starting new TC jobs, especially as a freelancer, going into various places for a few shifts here and there, and not going back for weeks or months – ie, plenty of time to forget what to do.
These days, I occasionally write bundles of ideas in a single late-night or early-morning session, but there’s no point in doing that if
- I never go back to them in the cold light of day, or
- I can’t read them when I need to, long after the idea has disappeared from my head
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