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How bad is it that I can spend three hours of a careers seminar in a ball of stress and nerves because we're talking (just talking) about interviews and interpersonal skills and how to present yourself TM, and then I can be presented with a surprise maths test and I relax completely? Well, basic arithmetic, really, it was the standard verbal/numerical/spatial abilities aptitude test. I could do those things all day, not a bother. I felt genuinely relaxed and happy for the first time in hours.
Just. Conversation and self-presentation: ALL THE STRESS. Sudden maths test: calm and happiness. This is why I keep failing interviews.
I'm not surprised, mind you. I know this is a problem for me. I'm great in a written medium, and I can answer direct questions and figure out concrete problems until the cows come home, but sit me down in front of an actual, physical person and I am ... not good. Introverted aspie hermit over here. I'm ... I'm working on it. Trying to. Ah, sod it.
It just struck me as a little funny, I guess. Surprise maths tests calm me down. I don't think it's meant to be that way around. Heh. Today was me in a nutshell, really.
Just. Conversation and self-presentation: ALL THE STRESS. Sudden maths test: calm and happiness. This is why I keep failing interviews.
I'm not surprised, mind you. I know this is a problem for me. I'm great in a written medium, and I can answer direct questions and figure out concrete problems until the cows come home, but sit me down in front of an actual, physical person and I am ... not good. Introverted aspie hermit over here. I'm ... I'm working on it. Trying to. Ah, sod it.
It just struck me as a little funny, I guess. Surprise maths tests calm me down. I don't think it's meant to be that way around. Heh. Today was me in a nutshell, really.
