Adrenaline Rush

I work for a small to medium sized company that is the exclusive licensed vendor for our state's high school state finals. Because of this, I have the "opportunity" to go to a very large percentage of said events.

Now most of my coworkers view this as some sort of life sentence while I, on the other hand, thrive on this experience. In most cases it gets me out of the office an extra day of the week, and depending on the event it can equal a nice extra sum in my paycheck.

Probably my favorite events are Girls & Boys Basketball. These two events, spread out over four weekends, are so high energy for me. The music is loud, the fans are excited, and I get to go in undercover to infiltrate the enemy's camp. By that I mean stalking unsuspecting fans and asking them if I can take a picture of their t-shirt.

Now they don't mind because they're so psyched up on carbohydrates, caffeine and team spirit that they have no idea those photos can cause their school to have to pay royalties they skipped out on paying by going through an unlicensed vendor. To be fair, I don't include their faces so that if the pictures get back to their schools no one can take it personally.

For some reason, though, chasing people around with my little Canon Digital Elph for this cause just gives me a huge adrenaline rush.

My boss doesn't mind since he gets a kick back from the royalties.