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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Well out of my depthGot a job in my sandwich year as an Export Sales Rep, spoke reasonably good French and Spanish, so those customers weren't so much of a problem. Although the trouble was, 70% of our customer base was, in fact, in Germany and Austria. I managed to wing it for the year and get by using a my one years' study of the language, a phrasebook and the customer's knowledge of English. While I was well out of my depth, I was a jammy little sod and this subtle lack of language skill was never apparent to my boss - it probably helped that he was UK based, and I was usually abroad.
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