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Originally Posted by porsche4life

You aren't getting me.... I'm not talking about just being able to discuss that persons chosen career. I mean you need to be versed to talked about religion(not yours, all in general), politics(again all in general), culture, history, economics, travel, hobbies, geography, weather, etc....

See what I mean, pick a broad topic, and learn about it. The more you know, the more people you can talk to.

I can do a bit of that but all I get in response is stuff like "Oh, that's nice." Except for the engineers. They understand and we end up going off on all sorts of things. Problem is they are mostly all guys.

I can talk to programmers about other stuff and be understood. The one guy was real interested in the heat transfer in regards to chip cooling. But then he wanted to talk about video games or stuff and my eyes glazed over. Hardware I can handle.