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Originally Posted by cdn2wheeler  *raises hand*
uh... I do... |
oh yeah, you have a job for me cdn? I don't want you as my boss
Thanks a lot everybody for all these ideas!
And for the encouraging words, and for the compliments about writing, although that's not clear to me...
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Originally Posted by ixmatus There must be a reason why you know four languages, do you love language? Is there something about languages/communication in general that interests you? |
yes and no. I guess I should elaborate:
yes: I love languages, and I like to compare them. Every language I can speak is a degree of freedom more, like a new personality. You don't think in english like you think in french. I'm more generally interested in communication too. Foreign languages, but also non verbal communication, body language, biological communication, energetical communication, telepathy, cultural aspects of communication, intercultural communication, and also logic, programming languages, theory of codes, steganography and cryptography... that's all fascinating isn't it?
no: but that's not something I am more interested in than in something else. I learned these foreign languages along the way, just like I learned everything else. That's not something particularly important in my life.
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Originally Posted by ixmatus Don't rule so much out based on your timid interactions with people |
Oh sorry that's a misunderstanding. I'm an introvert, but I'm not shy. I'm not timid at all, I smile and say hello to people on the street, I can talk to any stranger, I'm not afraid at all of approaching people. It happens often to me that I meet some people on the street or in the bus or while queueing somewhere and we just start talking. I'm said to be an excellent listener too, as I'm very empathic and can easily "feel" people, their problems, feelings, energy and health state. Very often people I've never seen before tell me about their very private stuff. I have no problem with expressing my own feelings or talking about my life either.
The point is just that interaction with people costs me a lot of energy. I love people, I love communicating with them, but I cannot do that too much, that's all. When talking to someone, there is such an avalanche of impressions and feelings overwhelming me, I need some time to recover and process all this information afterwards. More generally, I absolutely need A LOT of time ALONE. Going to university and being in a room together with other people for hours every day there nearly killed me. Whereas when I spend my days alone and silently, I'm fine. That's why I'd like to work from home, where I am alone with my sweet girl (the cat).
And I don't want to sell things not because talking to people scares me, but because that's just not me. I want to meet people genuinely, from heart to heart, not convince them to buy something. That's not the same kind of communication at all!
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Originally Posted by ixmatus I could see you doing mediation for foreign/multi-national corporations |
sounds interesting
what do mediators do??
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Originally Posted by ixmatus because your English is certainly excellent. |
it is not, you haven't heard my french accent
But I'm working on it.
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Originally Posted by ixmatus (although, I am not sure if you meant to say 'buy shoes' instead of 'make shoes'? if you make your own shoes, I would be impressed!) |
nono, I meant "make shoes". Nelson was speaking from the PoV of a potential employer. He used shoes as a metaphor for skills and said that he as an employer would hire people who are masters at one thing (buy one pair of good shoes) and not jack-of-all-trades who have ten skills but are really good at nothing (ten pairs of crappy shoes). So I told him that my shoes (my skills) are not crappy (I'm good at what I do), but I don't make sneakers all the time (I don't use the same skill all the time, like a painter who develops his painting skill till his death). I make a pair of boots, then a pair of pumps... (I develop one skill, then another, then another... ) Got it?
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Originally Posted by Saidin Since you're such a good writer, why don't you write an eBook or other digital products? You have enough knowledge to create more than one. |
knowledge about what??
Isn't it pointless to write about a topic some specialist has already written three detailled books about?