Out of my depthAs a schoolkid, I signed up for a public speaking contest purely as a ruse to meet girls. It haunts me still: in front of 300 people, I started to speak, dried up, stood there for what felt like half an hour staring at the floor and then slowly walked back to my seat. Oh, and the girl I liked laughed.
Have you ever been utterly, completely, devastatingly out of your depth?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 15:07)
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Market Research vetting falls down...I'm 24. I once got asked to a market research forum on Enterprise-level storage (backup devices, SANs etc.) £70 incentive payment - result! When I turned up, I must have been the only person under 40 and earning less than £80k. A room of 7 people incorporating 'Group IT Managers' and 'Worldwide Storage Strategy Directors' of one massive corporation or another. There were microphones everywhere. There were difficult questions.. Discussions of large sums of money. And there was me - a backup boy with 1 year's experience.
Reckon I blagged it ok though (and got the cash!)
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chrisjohnson, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 15:38,
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