I’m no good at this stuff. Making small talk with bankers, marketers, and sales. What? I don’t even know what these people do. Bankers=rob people. Marketers=convince people to buy things they don’t want. Sales=pressuring people to buy things they don’t want. I’m a snob. I do justice for a living. What can be better than that? Medical doctor comes close. (I’m being facetious….doctors are neck and neck with us prosecutors.) But anyway, I can’t understand how to navigate these type of events. Do you stick by the people you know? Do you venture off to talk to strangers? Is this a dating event? Do you invite people you are interested in as a way to ask them on a ‘non-date’? It doesn’t make sense. What do you do with your hands? Do you keep a drink in them? Do you keep them at your side? What do you wear? Business casual? Power suit? I’m confused I tell you. I do believe at the last event I attended I was the darkest thing in the place besides the mahogany bar. I felt like a Cabbage Patch Doll in a sea of wanna-be Malibu Barbies. Not a comforting feeling. Of course there were like a handful of Highland Barbies with their little square rimmed black glasses, but they still act like Malibu Barbie. Oh lord, I’m so judgmental. I may need a 12 step program.
Listening to 10 years’ Wasteland. Kinda Incubus like (I still love you Brandon!!!)
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I don't believe that....
Your too intelligent for that.
You do it all the time.
You're a lawyer.
Don't you watch Boston Legal?:)
Lawyer network ALL the time.
That's what you do!
Maybe you were at an ALL white networking event...that can be a little intimidating...however, that's the price we pay for living in our Old Kentucky Home.
Here's what you do.
You socialize...as if you were at a party.
You dress for the event...most like likely it's business casual.
You listen to others conversation...wait for an opening.
"Really? That's interesting because I'm an attorney and I haven't come across that before"(In a curious...yet friendly maner)."That's a great resturant, make sure to try the special."
If all else fails...you can return to the time tested Louisville tradition of...
"I went to that high school too! When did you graduate? That's was supposed to be my daddy!(if you're white.)
"That's my second cousin. My mother is her mother's aunt!"(If you're black)
Don't deny it Louisville, you know these conversations happen every other day in the river city.
Make sure to have business cards!
Yes...you might meet your husband there...but that might happen walking from the courthouse to lunch...If it happens...good...but don't LOOK for it.
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