People Like You More Than You Know
These are true stories. I don&#x27;t wish to come across as bragging.<p>The last day of a job I had for seven years, the director of engineering told me I was the best engineer he ever knew. And he worked for some pretty well known engineering firms. If he had told me that before, I might not have left.<p>A woman came into my office--someone who didn&#x27;t seem to want to give me the time of day--and the conversation got around to her telling me how depressed she was about her life and loves. After maybe 10 minutes, she thanked me for being such a good listener and said something about I was just so charismatic. I almost fell out of my chair.<p>I taught electronics at a trade school to a morning class for a couple of years. There were hundreds of students, and I knew I was a good teacher, but I didn&#x27;t think the students thought once about me when they went home. On my last day of work, one of the guys asked me to give a special last lecture on a topic. As I walked into the room, I was followed by students from my class, the afternoon class and the evening class! They filled the room and presented me with a fairly expensive bottle of whiskey.<p>I&#x27;ve had a few girls tell me, after it was too late, that they always had a crush on me. Well, I was interested in them, too.<p>If someone would have just said something sooner, life, for me, would be totally different now.