AVID certified!

Last week I got to take two classes!! It was an awesome break from my normal day to day work here at FMC.  Having already learned Final Cut and Premiere Pro, I've always wanted to learn AVID.  

AVID is the professional standard of 85% of hollywood films and broadcast TV, and is the most recognized editing program around.  It's been around for 30+ years, and has always had a leg up on other editing software platforms.  

Now that I've learned it I can honestly say that it is better than Final Cut and Premiere.  The only thing it's missing is the dynamic linking that Premiere and After Effects can do.  

Anyway, the good news is that I PASSED the certification exam!!!  I am now an AVID Certified User.  Hopefully this will help me in my professional career as an editor down the road.  Now I just have to decide if I'm going to go after an editing job somewhere here in Orlando, be a freelancer, or take some other job... like going back to Jesus Film.  But more on that another time...

Yay for credentials!

The ethics of business

I've decided after talking with many people that unless something goes drastically wrong, I'm gonna stick out my internship.  I'm now 1/3 of the way done, and next week I actually get to start taking classes!  Woo hoo! I'm excited to finally learn Avid and After Effects.

But, I wanted to get everyone's opinion on the most recent assignment I have been given: to make 10 cold calls per day.  Now, this could be much worse - the other interns have to make 20.  But I have explained to my superiors how much I severely hate cold calls.  I feel like they are an invasion of privacy, and if I wanted to be a telemarketer, I certainly wouldn't be working for video editing classes.

Anyway, the creepy part about it is we have to use this online software called "Genius Tracker" which I have dubbed "Genius Stalker." It shows us when someone is looking at a mass email that we've sent them, and we can even replay their visit to our website.  The owner of our company has decided that we should ideally call them AS they are looking at the email to ask them if they're interested, without letting them know that we can see that they have it open.

The ethics of business....AHHAHHHJRHJGGGHHHH!!!

What do you think?  Ethical or unethical?