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#21 Mister Sympa

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Posted 13 August 2018 - 07:53 AM

I'm not about to quit ('cause I need food etc), but I am looking around. I want to still be in information services in some capacity.


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#22 Cotton Candy Hot Tub

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Posted 13 August 2018 - 01:13 PM

That shouldn't be too hard to find. I'm looking for a warehouse job myself. Wouldn't mind dealing with the public though because I've never had a job like that. It would also give me some better understanding about people skills. Need that since I'm socially awkward.

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Posted 13 August 2018 - 05:15 PM

meh..  we are all socially awkward..  thats why this forum exists.

 

put me down as a reference.  



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Posted 14 August 2018 - 09:52 AM

That shouldn't be too hard to find. I'm looking for a warehouse job myself. Wouldn't mind dealing with the public though because I've never had a job like that. It would also give me some better understanding about people skills. Need that since I'm socially awkward.

Nothing teaches you how to deal with the public like retail. It is soul-sucking though.

Warehouse jobs make bank. If you can handle the physical labor, do it.


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Posted 14 August 2018 - 06:53 PM

Nothing teaches you how to deal with the public like retail. It is soul-sucking though.

Warehouse jobs make bank. If you can handle the physical labor, do it.

To be honest prior to working retail I was extremely socially awkward. My job taught me how to interact with humans. I made good friends, learnt how to talk with strangers. :) 

 

meh..  we are all socially awkward..  thats why this forum exists.

 

put me down as a reference.  

Amen to that. 

 

I'm quite extraverted but still extremely awkward. Sometimes I just can't help but speak my mind, no matter how whack it sounds lol.


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#26 Grolli

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Posted 15 August 2018 - 05:39 AM

I am always accused of being brutally honest.  I have found a lot of folks dont like that. 

 

Interactions with people drain my batteries.  I prefer to be home, my fortress of solitude.  Too bad I cant get paid well to work from home.



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Posted 15 August 2018 - 09:09 AM

I had a friend who was "brutally honest".

 

The problem was, she tended to be honest about things that didn't matter so much and just hurt people's feelings. I ain't saying you do that, I'm just saying that's one way to do it wrong.


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#28 Grolli

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Posted 15 August 2018 - 06:32 PM

true.

 

i will say that I do bite my tongue until asked for my opinion.. about 90% of the time.  The other 10% I end up muttering my opinion to myself.



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Posted 16 August 2018 - 05:42 PM

meh..  we are all socially awkward..  thats why this forum exists.
 
put me down as a reference.

Lol. I would like to put you down as a reference, but I think they normally just want Supervisors and Managers that I worked with on the list.

My main problem with being socially awkward is trying to be funny, until realizing what I actually said had no humor behind it whatsoever. People just stare at me like I said something offensive, then it haunts me for about a week until I have the confidence to get back out of my house again.

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Posted 17 August 2018 - 05:27 AM

Lol. I would like to put you down as a reference, but I think they normally just want Supervisors and Managers that I worked with on the list.

My main problem with being socially awkward is trying to be funny, until realizing what I actually said had no humor behind it whatsoever. People just stare at me like I said something offensive, then it haunts me for about a week until I have the confidence to get back out of my house again.

 

AMEN!  I know this feeling well



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Posted 17 August 2018 - 09:07 AM

Yeahhhh, that feeling is never fun.


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#32 Cotton Candy Hot Tub

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Posted 17 August 2018 - 07:15 PM

Ah. It's good to know I'm not the only one who has that.

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Posted 20 August 2018 - 07:35 AM

I feel it a lot less now (probably because I interact with people less), but I used to get it all the time in school.


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Posted 30 August 2018 - 07:59 AM

I'm confident as hell and more often than not I'm a fairly smooth talker, but I had this issues a lot when I was younger.

You have to fuck up social situations en masse before your brain starts to rewire itself to stop being a weird asshole in front of people.

Sooner or later most people get a handle on the awkwardness I find.


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