I have to write a technical paper for work. It’s going to be a presentation at a huge – I mean HUGE – conference in Boston next year. I may have to actually present it. Did I ever mention how I feel about public speaking?
I hate public speaking. I get hot, sweaty, and red (like a tomatoe); I feel nauseous, I stutter, I hate it. It seems as though this may be something I am going to have to work on getting over. And fast.
I write reports, emails, and letters everyday but there is something much more intimidating about a technical paper. This is all new to me. Sure I wrote papers back in college, but those papers where just thrown together in a drunken haze just to get a mark. This paper, I have to present in front of the industry’s top people; know-it-all engineers. That’s scary, and very intimidating!
I know I am not the most well written person. I try and I get my point across (I hope), but I wouldn’t say that I would make it as a journalist or anything. While I think about trying to accomplish this paper, all I am going to think about is all the know-it-alls that will be critiquing me quietly.
It’s a year away and I can already feel the knots growing, I can feel the fear escalating.
This is something to look forward to. HELP!!
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