Drjnking at worK?

Got to work at this place in Chinatown doing transcribing for an interview that was conducted lately. The job scope is simple, you come in for as many days as required to finish transcribing that tape, but you get the same amount anyway no matter how long you took since it doesn't go by a per day basis.

Well, there was only 2 recordings (1hr 19mins & 16mins), doesn't seem that long right? So I thought what can be so hard, with a day at hand, I should be able to finish them before 6pm.
But NO... I ended up finishing at 10 that evening. Haha, but there were reasons for that.

• The interviewers were clear and succinct in their questions, but the interviewee had a tendency to go all over the place and occasionally the voice just wasn't captured clearly.
  Since the most impt part about the interview is the comment given by the interviewee (which happens to take up the most part of the interview).
  So transcripting 10 - 14mins took up to an hour to do.
  
• When it was finally done and we ran the first QC, it became quite apparent that I missed out some parts. I admit, I tend to summarise and pick out the main points when I listen to conversations like this. Things were muffled and sometimes instead of typing in the expressions, I went straight to the point and left out what might deemed a critical part of the research. *BEPH*
  So have to recheck and alter it.
  

Good thing about this job was the little drinking session with the boss. Quite surprised when they brought out their store of hard liquors from the pantry (think they might be better stocked in this than coffee and tea, haha!). This 'little' drinking session was suppose to last only 30 minutes, we ended up having such a good time (partly because we were a quite tipsy towards the end) that it dragged on for 2 hours. Thankfully the world stopped spinning half an hour before I had to continue working on the tape. But that was perhaps the most fun part while I was there for the day.

All in all, a good experience.