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[Ankit 3,176]

Ah, you would have made me try harder to reach you but I am not the usual type of teacher.

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I wasn't lucky enough, then!!

[BluesChick 1,260]

Ah, you would have made me try harder to reach you but I am not the usual type of teacher.

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I wasn't lucky enough, then!!

I would have loved to show you how to at least see the "mystery" of chemistry!! I am working with a young man now who's teacher's think are a lost cause and I am not quite ready to give up. I think he is so used to everyone seeing him as dumb that he is willing to accept that as the case... But I see potential in him.

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[manpe 10,861]

Currently in a bus driving to a job interview, unbelievably nervous wish me luck.

People, I need help, I don't know what to do. The interview went fine imo, one of the interviewers who escorted me out later said I did very well. But the thing is I don't know if I can do it, one thing is to talk to a few people for half an hour, the other is to actually start working every day around strangers. They said that even though it's not a specialist job, it involves quite a lot of responsibility and I would need to learn quite a few things. This freaks me out. I feel like a social phobic because I'm so awkward and nervous around people it's paralizing. I want to be this importunate guy who goes around, asks questions, is social and all that. But I'm afraid my fears will stop me from learning this job properly, I will feel paralized whole day to the point where I want to just escape and run away without looking back. People will look at me like some incompetent weirdo who has no place there. They also hinted that this job would involve some communicating, I was hoping it would be a routine typing behind a computer.

I want to be like those guys in Office Space, if you've seen this movie. Where you have friends and you're already settled in and joke around. Instead I would be the new guy who doesn't know shit and has to be babysitted all the time. As I left I was already contemplating how to reject their offer if they did offer it. It's not a healthy way of thinking, but I can't change it. I'm just not a positive person by nature. My fear of failure far surpasses my anticipation of success. My mindset is that I can't be a success in anything, I don't know why. I will always see myself as the odd man out, the one who doesn't belong. I have trouble feeling connection to other people, I always see it as they all live in the real world with all the other normal people, while I'm stuck in mine which is far from being real and that I'm just a badly programmed program full of bugs and forever in beta status (like Orkut )

What to do?

So I got the job and am starting on friday... nervous as FUCK!!

[BluesChick 1,260]

Currently in a bus driving to a job interview, unbelievably nervous wish me luck.

People, I need help, I don't know what to do. The interview went fine imo, one of the interviewers who escorted me out later said I did very well. But the thing is I don't know if I can do it, one thing is to talk to a few people for half an hour, the other is to actually start working every day around strangers. They said that even though it's not a specialist job, it involves quite a lot of responsibility and I would need to learn quite a few things. This freaks me out. I feel like a social phobic because I'm so awkward and nervous around people it's paralizing. I want to be this importunate guy who goes around, asks questions, is social and all that. But I'm afraid my fears will stop me from learning this job properly, I will feel paralized whole day to the point where I want to just escape and run away without looking back. People will look at me like some incompetent weirdo who has no place there. They also hinted that this job would involve some communicating, I was hoping it would be a routine typing behind a computer.

I want to be like those guys in Office Space, if you've seen this movie. Where you have friends and you're already settled in and joke around. Instead I would be the new guy who doesn't know shit and has to be babysitted all the time. As I left I was already contemplating how to reject their offer if they did offer it. It's not a healthy way of thinking, but I can't change it. I'm just not a positive person by nature. My fear of failure far surpasses my anticipation of success. My mindset is that I can't be a success in anything, I don't know why. I will always see myself as the odd man out, the one who doesn't belong. I have trouble feeling connection to other people, I always see it as they all live in the real world with all the other normal people, while I'm stuck in mine which is far from being real and that I'm just a badly programmed program full of bugs and forever in beta status (like Orkut )

What to do?

So I got the job and am starting on friday... nervous as FUCK!!

You will rock!! Take a deep breath and remember we are all behind you!! Congrats!! So freakin' proud of you!!

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[Ankit 3,176]

I would have loved to show you how to at least see the "mystery" of chemistry!! I am working with a young man now who's teacher's think are a lost cause and I am not quite ready to give up. I think he is so used to everyone seeing him as dumb that he is willing to accept that as the case... But I see potential in him.

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I certainly hope he proves you right! May be it's just me but i feel the profession of 'Teaching' has lost its beauty. Now a days, teachers don't really care much about the whole class. Don't get me wrong, but for me Teaching is one of the biggest commitments you can make and i don't see teachers now respecting that. Teachers basically form the next generation. I think people have started to take it very lightly!

I have had 3 teachers in my life who i absolutely love. One of them was my Maths teacher and other two were a lovely lovely ladies who were a positive influence on my life. I still meet them, i touch their feet(marked as a sign of respect here, you touch the feet of elders who you respect). But other than them, i never felt they were really interested in teaching. I never felt a connection with the rest of them! Ofcourse the kids can be nuisance most of the time but still. Teaching is one profession that has to be taken very seriously and i am glad you are!!

[manpe 10,861]

You will rock!! Take a deep breath and remember we are all behind you!! Congrats!! So freakin' proud of you!!

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The kind of empathy you show to total strangers on the internet is unprecedented.

[Ankit 3,176]

So I got the job and am starting on friday... nervous as FUCK!!

Believe me, everything will be just fine! You are on your first day of a job. They won't be expecting you to know it all. Just play along, be nice and don't think too much in your head. Have a clear and calm state of mind.

[manpe 10,861]

Believe me, everything will be just fine! You are on your first day of a job. They won't be expecting you to know it all. Just play along, be nice and don't think too much in your head. Have a clear and calm state of mind.

Thanks, I will try. I have a habit of panicking in my mind, though on the outside I look cool. I'm gonna try and think of the worst possible scenarios that could happen to me, and when they don't, I can think "everything has been going better than expected".

[Ankit 3,176]

Thanks, I will try. I have a habit of panicking in my mind, though on the outside I look cool. I'm gonna try and think of the worst possible scenarios that could happen to me, and when they don't, I can think "everything has been going better than expected".

Or you could you go thinking "this is my first day, i have nothing to lose so lets see how is today gonna turn up".

[SinineUltra 1,170]

So I got the job and am starting on friday... nervous as FUCK!!

A good way to overcome fears is to face them not to run from them. Take it as a challenge of your willpower.

[Rmpr 8,977]

So I got the job and am starting on friday... nervous as FUCK!!

Congratulations mate, hope you enjoy and stop feeling nervous!

After your first week, I am sure you will be used to the routine and will laugh at your current situation (nervous). Good luck!

[Stingray 9,441]

I would have loved to show you how to at least see the "mystery" of chemistry!!

Ahum ... that sounds oddly erotic when you say that

I love it!

Edit: joke ok!

[BluesChick 1,260]

I would have loved to show you how to at least see the "mystery" of chemistry!! I am working with a young man now who's teacher's think are a lost cause and I am not quite ready to give up. I think he is so used to everyone seeing him as dumb that he is willing to accept that as the case... But I see potential in him.

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I certainly hope he proves you right! May be it's just me but i feel the profession of 'Teaching' has lost its beauty. Now a days, teachers don't really care much about the whole class. Don't get me wrong, but for me Teaching is one of the biggest commitments you can make and i don't see teachers now respecting that. Teachers basically form the next generation. I think people have started to take it very lightly!

I have had 3 teachers in my life who i absolutely love. One of them was my Maths teacher and other two were a lovely lovely ladies who were a positive influence on my life. I still meet them, i touch their feet(marked as a sign of respect here, you touch the feet of elders who you respect). But other than them, i never felt they were really interested in teaching. I never felt a connection with the rest of them! Ofcourse the kids can be nuisance most of the time but still. Teaching is one profession that has to be taken very seriously and i am glad you are!!

Teaching is a calling, it is something you do because it is part of you, I know many people that teach who should not and it saddens me. I have watched as the destroy potential just because they have no clue how to nurture it. I teach because I love the little moments when that kid who has gotten nothing else all year finally looks up and smiles because he understood something. I can reach a brilliant child easily but if I can reach one child who said I can't and here him say I can, then I am doing my job well.

@Manpe, I am who I am on the Internet or in person I cannot hide that and don't want to! I wish you the best of luck and I really think you will be amazing!!

[The Skipper 20,609]

Raphael - is the temperamental aggressive, that acts now and thinks later. Choleric

Leonardo is the passionate leader that is prone to 'always doing the right thing'. Melancholic

Michaelangelo is the easy going party guy. Sanguine.

And donatello is the reserved intellectual. Phlegmatic

I'm probably a mixture between Donatello & Leonardo.

[The Skipper 20,609]

So I got the job and am starting on friday... nervous as FUCK!!

Congrats dude. You'll be just fine.