In Which Your Obedient Serpent consults the Hive Mind.
Upon awakening this morning, Your Obedient Serpent had one of those epiphanies that keep expanding his mind these days.
For the last couple of days at work, I've been in and out of training. Training at my new job leans toward the casual and conversational. They take it seriously, but they want to know that you're engaged.
I've found that, when discussions of safety, odd technology, and strange experiences lean toward the conversational .... I frequently have A Relevant Amusing Anecdote.
And they all start differently.
When I was in the Coast Guard ...
When I worked in the hospital ...
When I was at Cal State, doing Seafloor Mapping ...
When I was in the comic book store ...
When you're clinically depressed, one of the things that gets into your head is the idea that "I haven't done anything with my life." And that's a hard one to dislodge.
But ... by GAD, sir! I've done all manner of things with my life.
I am ... INTERESTING.
You may have noticed that, over the last year or so, a phrase I've used more than once is 'I don't want to be That Guy. "Nobody wants to be That Guy."
Well, I think that I might be This Guy:
... and I think I'm good with that.
Pity poor kohai_tiger, who, in the course of two to three hours of daily commute, occasionally gets stuck in the role of Hapless Gentleman's Club Member Buttonholed by Pompous Windbag McBragg ...
For the last couple of days at work, I've been in and out of training. Training at my new job leans toward the casual and conversational. They take it seriously, but they want to know that you're engaged.
I've found that, when discussions of safety, odd technology, and strange experiences lean toward the conversational .... I frequently have A Relevant Amusing Anecdote.
And they all start differently.
When I was in the Coast Guard ...
When I worked in the hospital ...
When I was at Cal State, doing Seafloor Mapping ...
When I was in the comic book store ...
When you're clinically depressed, one of the things that gets into your head is the idea that "I haven't done anything with my life." And that's a hard one to dislodge.
But ... by GAD, sir! I've done all manner of things with my life.
I am ... INTERESTING.
You may have noticed that, over the last year or so, a phrase I've used more than once is 'I don't want to be That Guy. "Nobody wants to be That Guy."
Well, I think that I might be This Guy:
... and I think I'm good with that.
Pity poor kohai_tiger, who, in the course of two to three hours of daily commute, occasionally gets stuck in the role of Hapless Gentleman's Club Member Buttonholed by Pompous Windbag McBragg ...