By VIRGINIA ROSE WILLIAMS

vrw001@latech.edu

 

Host, audio expert and film crew all are jobs open to students at TechTV.

The students working for TechTV all have various jobs and many joined the staff in different ways.

Some students are full-time and all are entertainment providers for students living on campus.

A number of the TechTV staff members enjoy the different types of equipment that are used.

“I like working on [TechTV] because it lets me have a creative outlet,” Jarrod Richey, a junior music performance major, said.

He said working on TechTV is different and has a nice uniqueness about it.

“I was interested in being part of [TechTV] freshman year, so I started volunteering,” Richey said.

“Then, summer 2004 I started working and getting paid.”

Richey does the sports highlights for TechTV.

Though he is a full-time student with a job, Richey  has learned to juggle his work on TechTV with his classes.

“Work only gets in the way if you let it,” Richey said.

Some of the staff members have extra responsibilities by having two majors to work on and TechTV.

William Seale, a senior mechanical engineering and physics major, started off as a volunteer for two years.

Seale was able to get involved with TechTV because he knew people working on it.

Last year he did “This Week in Movies” with Kyle Sweeney, a Tech graduate. He is now a paid employee as an audio technician.

“I enjoy the flexible hours,” Seale said.

“If there is a conflict with my class, TechTV gets pushed aside, and it’s not a problem.”

Seale said he does not have to stress out over his job.

“If I don’t want to do something or can’t, I pass it on for Jarrod to do,” Seale said.

However, there are many parts of working on TechTV that Seale takes pleasure in.

“The thing I enjoy the most is working with the Neato cameras,” he said.

Christy Pitre, a senior studio art and French major, said she got her job on TechTV because she knew Sam Speed in charge of TechTV and a friend of hers was quitting.

“[My friend] told me to come in for an interview.”

Pitre is on the film crew and does a little bit of everything in the TechTV office.

Pitre said sometimes she has to work fewer hours because of school work and having a double major.

 Pitre said she gets to pick her own hours and she is free to be flexible with it.

“This is the coolest student job on campus,” Pitre said.

“It really helps out more than other student jobs as far as focusing on future careers.”

She said, “I just really love working with the other people and working on films.”