Last night I had to attend a mandatory associate workshop on how to improve communication skills. The first exercise forced us to pair up with a partner and speak for three minutes straight about what we do without using any filler words such as "um" or "like."
I was only able to speak for two minutes about patent law. I completely ran out of things to say and, to be quite honest, two minutes of talking about my job is two minutes more than I enjoy.
My partner, a lovely female speech scientist, then asked me if I like my job.
I said, "So tell me about being a speech scientist!"
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