I had three on my first day and then was emotionally done. I remember thinking “to all other people, I can either cry with joy at what you say, or cry in frustration, but no other responses are available right now”.
It involved (for me) gearing up a ton of context and interest in one person, finding something critical to say with them, and then they were gone and it was happening again.
I mean, maybe we were all just being dumb and should handle it better. I also wonder if there’s some natural way for event organizers to be like “there are set break periods where we stop 1-1s from being booked” or something, though probably that’s a bad solution and there’s a better one.
I’ll just say from the other side that at EAG x Oxford I had a lot of 1-1s and didn’t find it stressful; I’m really extroverted and get a lot of energy from things like this. I don’t never need a break or want to escape, but the burnout thing is less common for me.
I had three on my first day and then was emotionally done. I remember thinking “to all other people, I can either cry with joy at what you say, or cry in frustration, but no other responses are available right now”.
It involved (for me) gearing up a ton of context and interest in one person, finding something critical to say with them, and then they were gone and it was happening again.
I mean, maybe we were all just being dumb and should handle it better. I also wonder if there’s some natural way for event organizers to be like “there are set break periods where we stop 1-1s from being booked” or something, though probably that’s a bad solution and there’s a better one.
I’ll just say from the other side that at EAG x Oxford I had a lot of 1-1s and didn’t find it stressful; I’m really extroverted and get a lot of energy from things like this. I don’t never need a break or want to escape, but the burnout thing is less common for me.
Woop, thank you for true but contrary datapoints.