So my MD and Sr. both really think it would be a good idea for me to join a board and start volunteering for stuff like reading to lids, but I have a lot of social anxiety with this stuff - advice??

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Little kids are super fun. Mini adults with little to no emotional baggage. Perfect for introverts. Just be totally straight with them and they’ll love you.

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Need more context. Why do they want you to join a board or volunteer in general? And why did they suggest those things instead of anything else? And do you even want to volunteer?

If you want to volunteer, you can pick pretty much whatever you want in your home city, regardless of your coworkers' ideas. If those are the options because your firm has community service events, then maybe you can dodge them If you are doing some other internal activity. If you asked your coworkers for bschool application tips, and they gave you targeted suggestions, then that is a different situation. Maybe they even want you to do some thing to get over your social anxiety.

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