Now the advantage/disadvantage of being involved with computers at these events is they can't really give us pretraining as the computer systems are net set up far enough in advance. So the event becomes your training, working with another person who has done the job before. They expect that you will learn quickly and be able to handle the systems with minimal training. They's why we were selected from our applications for these jobs. So in the next day or two I will receive an email telling me what shifts I am working. The rest of our training was a tour of the Ogden Ice Sheet. Last night they were starting to make ice for the event. The ice has to meet the standards set by the Olympic Organization. They were also setting up two tents that will serve as the volunteer check in area and command posts, and a Hospitality area (for volunteers, athletes, judges). I also saw the area known as "the back of the house", that I will be working in. A room about the size of a small bedroom, with 3 rows of 2 tiered tables or racks that will hold about 70 different computer systems and all the things necessary to make them work. It will be a crowded area and no glamour! But I will be part of an exciting event. And if you hear on the news or read in the newspaper or a website the scoring from these events remember it was me who entered that data into a computer that sent it out to the world.
