My wife and I are doing the digital nomad thing and we try to talk to people as often as possible. Since we fly everywhere and take Uber, we try to strike up conversations with our Uber drivers.
We also always sit at the bar when we eat. People at the bar are more amenable to striking up random conversations with strangers than almost anywhere else.
Just last night I went to the bar myself and the couple next to me was speaking Spanish. I politely said excuse me and said I overheard them speaking Spanish and said that I wasn’t eavesdropping - I didn’t know enough to.
They laughed and we struck up a three hour conversation. We exchanged information and they said they are in Orlando all the time. That’s where we will be for half of the year.
On a professional note, I now work in cloud consulting that’s heavily customer facing and knowing how to strike up a conversation becomes very important especially during pre-sales and when you meet in person.
I don’t watch sports and usually has nothing interesting to talk about that wasn’t news or politics until I started traveling a lot and had a genuine interest in other peoples travel experience.
We also always sit at the bar when we eat. People at the bar are more amenable to striking up random conversations with strangers than almost anywhere else.
Just last night I went to the bar myself and the couple next to me was speaking Spanish. I politely said excuse me and said I overheard them speaking Spanish and said that I wasn’t eavesdropping - I didn’t know enough to.
They laughed and we struck up a three hour conversation. We exchanged information and they said they are in Orlando all the time. That’s where we will be for half of the year.
On a professional note, I now work in cloud consulting that’s heavily customer facing and knowing how to strike up a conversation becomes very important especially during pre-sales and when you meet in person.
I don’t watch sports and usually has nothing interesting to talk about that wasn’t news or politics until I started traveling a lot and had a genuine interest in other peoples travel experience.