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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the personal stuff, pick something benign and low-stakes for you to share and have that be your thing. For example, cooking, or what book you’re reading, or watching birds in your yard. You don’t have to be super entertaining. They just want to feel you are “letting them in.”[/quote]

This is the great advice. My personal life is not fun, a child with special needs. The things we deal with or do on the weekend are not things the rest of the team wants to hear about, and frankly, I compartmentalize my life so that when I am at work, I put all of my difficult feelings on hold - that is the only way to get the job done & I need this job.

So, gardening is my thing. I have a patio garden that I treat with benign neglect - DH is the one who really was into gardening in the past, and I mostly keep it going for him. So it is not something I spend a lot of time on or care about much, but in work meetings, I’ll talk about that when they need that “sharing” - oh, it’s been so rainy here, the tomatoes aren’t doing well, or I have so much basil this year, it’s taking over everything - whatever. You need to learn the art of making conversation, because it is just required in some jobs. [/quote]

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