TheFortuneTeller
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OK, I seem to sometimes throw myself into the lion pit here a lot...
Now yesterday one of my colleagues informed me that this Friday upto Sunday our college will at this event. A lot of big companies will be there also, so there will be a huge crowd. And by crowd I mean not just people from their respective companies and groups, I mean a lot of people in that field including tons of students and even people just inquiring are going to be there. This your basic formula for having a SA person trapped in the lion pit of the Colosseum. And I have the choice to go for it, cause there's so much technology that I'm out of date with and well I want to see what I've been missing in the world.
Now here's the real nail bitten job for me. I have to sit at our post along with someone else from that department and talk to the people. I'm not even really in that part of the department so I wouldn't know a knife from a spoon when it comes to explaining to people what it's all about.
So I've been assured I'd be told what I should say in the days before the event and how to deal with it.
Now I like to go do this and see things, but being a SA person myself in a place where people like so are shunned, it's going to be hell for me. I know at the end of the day, assuming I don't get into any trouble, I'm going to have enjoyed going.
For one thing I have sat at posts and stalls at huge events where thousands of people would come in and talk, it was just over a year ago I did so and it was a piece of cake because I worried more about where the people who were supposed to be working with me were and what I would have for dinner than anyone looking at our post and talking with us. And the big difference is that those events were not in this country or community, I went over to some out of the country place where I know even people with some disability are accepted. And because everyone is friendly there and never treat me different from anyone else, I don't have anything to worry about.
But this place is different, the community here has this 'mental thing' where they think about what and who the other man is. I will be noticed because we will be posted next to a very important company, and I will be seen. I know no one will care about me after 30 seconds, but the fact that I will be nervous like hell when I sit there and talk to people, it's bothering me now.
One of the things to calm my self I take is my work. Even the classes I teach in I sometimes get a little anxiety, and because I've brought my work with me I poke my nose into it and do about 2 minutes of work, and I'm ok.
I have the same opportunity to take my work to our post and do the same, but I doubt I'll have even a moment to relax if I have to talk to people and that I know they are looking at me.
It's nerve wrecking already, so feel free to comment or suggest.
The only thing I haven't decided is if I will go or not. It would be good since I will be able to get used to events over here. On the other hand I would rather be at work since I get to relax more.
Now yesterday one of my colleagues informed me that this Friday upto Sunday our college will at this event. A lot of big companies will be there also, so there will be a huge crowd. And by crowd I mean not just people from their respective companies and groups, I mean a lot of people in that field including tons of students and even people just inquiring are going to be there. This your basic formula for having a SA person trapped in the lion pit of the Colosseum. And I have the choice to go for it, cause there's so much technology that I'm out of date with and well I want to see what I've been missing in the world.
Now here's the real nail bitten job for me. I have to sit at our post along with someone else from that department and talk to the people. I'm not even really in that part of the department so I wouldn't know a knife from a spoon when it comes to explaining to people what it's all about.
So I've been assured I'd be told what I should say in the days before the event and how to deal with it.
Now I like to go do this and see things, but being a SA person myself in a place where people like so are shunned, it's going to be hell for me. I know at the end of the day, assuming I don't get into any trouble, I'm going to have enjoyed going.
For one thing I have sat at posts and stalls at huge events where thousands of people would come in and talk, it was just over a year ago I did so and it was a piece of cake because I worried more about where the people who were supposed to be working with me were and what I would have for dinner than anyone looking at our post and talking with us. And the big difference is that those events were not in this country or community, I went over to some out of the country place where I know even people with some disability are accepted. And because everyone is friendly there and never treat me different from anyone else, I don't have anything to worry about.
But this place is different, the community here has this 'mental thing' where they think about what and who the other man is. I will be noticed because we will be posted next to a very important company, and I will be seen. I know no one will care about me after 30 seconds, but the fact that I will be nervous like hell when I sit there and talk to people, it's bothering me now.
One of the things to calm my self I take is my work. Even the classes I teach in I sometimes get a little anxiety, and because I've brought my work with me I poke my nose into it and do about 2 minutes of work, and I'm ok.
I have the same opportunity to take my work to our post and do the same, but I doubt I'll have even a moment to relax if I have to talk to people and that I know they are looking at me.
It's nerve wrecking already, so feel free to comment or suggest.
The only thing I haven't decided is if I will go or not. It would be good since I will be able to get used to events over here. On the other hand I would rather be at work since I get to relax more.