Things I never thought I would be doing at work

I have an interesting job. I mean, I work at a university and I help design and build and run online classes, but the day-to-day tasks I have don’t seem typical. 

For example, in the last couple months I have done the following:

• Scoured high resolution pictures from NASA to try to find the “hermit crab” on Mars
• Pretended to be an employer for an Australian airline in a mock job interview
• Prompted “actors” with their lines about calculating gravity and centripetal force 
• Researched how to create a visual tour of Outback Australia and big city Australia to help people understand the differences between rural medicine and city medicine in the Austalian healthcare system
• Conversed with students on discussion forums dedicated to people learning English
• Wrote fake essays to help people test assessments
• Created attribution tables to cite images used in videos that are Creative Commons 
• Talked about the drawbacks of tables in code and discussed alternatives
• Reviewed ethics application procedures 
• Watched someone drop a stuffed bunny with a parachute attached from a cherry picker
• Helped someone take video of a book being dropped in the grass
• Copy-pasted the same lines of code over and over to fix a problem in a course
• Skyped with someone in the US about how to handle and prepare for trolls in courses

I guess it’s nice to be doing something different every day. 

-C