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The Shy Brick Layer

How I made my introversion work for me.

I gazed at the giant lined accounting ledger that lay open before me. Someone was about to trust me to accurately scrawl neat little numbers into tiny little squares. Ack!

Picture a small-town student in her late teens in the late 1980s. This was my first job and I had agreed to act as receptionist/payroll administrator/cashier at a local…