Dave, thanks for sharing. I haven't taken a Myers-Briggs in quite a while, but the last time I did, I was INTP.
I've created myself an outgoing professional persona that I use for library instruction sessions. I've been told by some of my fellow instructors that I'm funny, outgoing, interesting, and can roll with the punches pretty well (when the database doesn't connect, when someone asks an off-the-wall question, etc.). In short, it's a good persona. It used to be that I'd get nervous before these things three days out. Couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, digestive problems, etc. But one semester I had to do so many of them, one or two a day for a week and a half, that eventually the fear burned itself away and all that was left was not Jon the High Schooler who worries about looking like an idiot in front of college kids, but JON THE LIBRARIAN, who'll be funny and helpful but in the end, doesn't particularly give a shit if you pay attention to his presentation, because it's your grade, not mine. Just don't snore, dammit, or I'll wing you with a book.
When I started my first library gig and realized I would have to do these things, one of my coworkers told me about her father, who was an English professor who'd taught for thirty years and loved it, but at the beginning of every semester, before the first class of the year, he'd have to go to the bathroom and hurl his guts out. At least I never reached that point.
Oh, and I've got a couple of things I did back in middle school that I mentally drag out on occasion, look at, and kick myself hard for doing. Not like hurting someone, but just faux pas of a galactic scale.
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Date: 2007-07-10 04:56 pm (UTC)I've created myself an outgoing professional persona that I use for library instruction sessions. I've been told by some of my fellow instructors that I'm funny, outgoing, interesting, and can roll with the punches pretty well (when the database doesn't connect, when someone asks an off-the-wall question, etc.). In short, it's a good persona. It used to be that I'd get nervous before these things three days out. Couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, digestive problems, etc. But one semester I had to do so many of them, one or two a day for a week and a half, that eventually the fear burned itself away and all that was left was not Jon the High Schooler who worries about looking like an idiot in front of college kids, but JON THE LIBRARIAN, who'll be funny and helpful but in the end, doesn't particularly give a shit if you pay attention to his presentation, because it's your grade, not mine. Just don't snore, dammit, or I'll wing you with a book.
When I started my first library gig and realized I would have to do these things, one of my coworkers told me about her father, who was an English professor who'd taught for thirty years and loved it, but at the beginning of every semester, before the first class of the year, he'd have to go to the bathroom and hurl his guts out. At least I never reached that point.
Oh, and I've got a couple of things I did back in middle school that I mentally drag out on occasion, look at, and kick myself hard for doing. Not like hurting someone, but just faux pas of a galactic scale.