Out of my depthAs a schoolkid, I signed up for a public speaking contest purely as a ruse to meet girls. It haunts me still: in front of 300 people, I started to speak, dried up, stood there for what felt like half an hour staring at the floor and then slowly walked back to my seat. Oh, and the girl I liked laughed.
Have you ever been utterly, completely, devastatingly out of your depth?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Oct 2004, 15:07)
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17, in another countryand full of myself. I went to a party, got exceedingly drunk and started talking about computers with a bloke. Four years of mucking about with BASIC I thought I could program anything. "Yeah, I can program in C", I slurred.
Monday morning, friend reminds me I have a new job. Automating factory production lines.
I spent the first morning reading a "How to program in C" book and the rest of the week winging it. After the first week we had a little chat and he moved me to the slightly less mission-critical job of making the menus look pretty.
Strangely, nearly 20 years later, I still make things look pretty for a living.
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