I've been procrastinating on this one phone call I need to make for about three and a half hours now. I don't even think it's going to be a particularly painful call - the researcher said in his e-mail he'd be "delighted" to talk to me. I just haven't been able to bring myself to do it. Sigh. Sometimes I think I'm in the wrong line of work. If I wait a bit longer, it'll be too late to decently call England.
UPDATE, 3:30 p.m.: Wouldn't you know it - I finally work up the nerve to call him, and we couldn't get a clear enough connection for the interview. I tried four times, and finally we gave up. Let's hope the international phone lines are feeling a little more genki tomorrow.
UPDATE, A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER: I finally talked to him, and he was great! Sigh. I hate working up nerve.
4 comments:
I actually find myself assertively-challenged a lot...which is weird because I'm very much an extrovert...
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I think I am introvert who appears to be an extrovert, and I am definitely assertively-challenged. I think it comes with living in people issues land.
Me, I'm pretty much an introvert. People give me headaches. My interviewing technique kind of relies on the other person being a rambly talker. Which a lot of people are, when you express an interest in their work.
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