Shyness In Work Is Enough To Drive You Out 1 comment
I’ve been unemployed for an absolute age, which isn’t so bad as starting a new job is about as appealing as being kicked in the face by a horse to me. Whenever I’ve started in previous jobs, I’ve always encountered the same awkward silences and phony conversations as I’ve got to know my new colleagues. Why can’t people be straight with each other and just admit that they don’t want to talk to each other? It would make our lives so much easier.
We shouldn’t have to talk to anyone we don’t want to. That should be the golden rule in our society. We’re basically taught to be social lepers from kindergarten onwards!
So I’ve sworn never to get another job, unless it’s something solitary like working in a mortuary. Even then I’d probably be too shy to approach the dead. Christ I suck so much 
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I don’t know if you care if I happen to relate….for a long time I thought I was shy, but actually it has become more of a need to not subject myself to awkwardness and being less-than-sincere. In a way, being shy is the best way I seem to express myself…so that when I crack, my true colors show through. But there’s like different kinds of shy people too. Like the I’m-so-nervous kind or the I-have-an-aversion-to-people kind. Anyway, we got to live a little right? I find that not having anyone to be real with drives me to the verge of despair so that I seek attention from people whose jobs it is to listen…sad I know. So what I end up doing out of self-defense is to get a hard exterior and not care what goes on around me…or to “try” to fit in and fail miserably because the limits of my self-esteem. I mean do I have to prove something, right? Hmm…for a lot of people it seems to be like a ‘test’ of who is the most nice, the most self-assured, the most content, etc. I don’t know….my mom told me that the world has become a more socially isolated one…so it’s not all completely your fault. It’s the way society has evolved. Write back, I hope:)