I have been enjoying sharing some of my past experiences with you all. And I have loved the responses, and criticisms, and the few shared experiences I have been sent.
So today I’m going to share my first major experience after I turned 18.
Growing up I was always fairly introverted and reserved socially. Took me a while to warm up to people and really talk to them. But when I turned 18 I got to thinking that if that continued I would have a harder time outside of school. So I decided to make an effort to learn how to be more outgoing. I started to talking to random people I’d meet if it wasn’t too strange. Just to see if I could strike up conversation but without attacking them.
A week after my birthday I landed my first full-time job working second shift at a warehouse. I worked with about 8 other people, evenly divided between men and women of different age ranges. They had all worked together a while and were comfortable together. We worked in close proximity (ah the days of regular, close human interaction), doing a repetitive, mind numbing job. So they talked. And I made a point to jump into both the work and the conversations from day one.