Seminars! Do you go when someone invited you to a seminar
By hotsummer
@hotsummer (13835)
Philippines
September 19, 2009 10:32am CST
I hate seminars. it is boring, it is long, it is dragging name it. there is nothing much i enjoy about seminars. either it is a school, work, business seminars. nothing seems to be enjoyable. it is more like formality to me. like get done with crap and get home immediately. so maybe add some few activities to lighten up the mood, and do give some prizes and etc. but in the end most seminars will not really help you learn on whatever the topic of the seminar. like i had this special course i took, and we were invited to join this seminar for $10. i didn't go. i don't like seminar. and so all who went just said it was such a waste of money. it was all full of crap. they didn't learn any thing at all. all they did was sit there and let the speaker finish what he or she was saying though the speaker more like reading a script than actually saying anything interesting or failed to get the interest of the listeners. and there was nothing new in what they said. it is like it is much better to research the topic on the net and you would have learned more than sitting through that seminar.
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17 responses
@angryeve (684)
• Philippines
19 Sep 09
Hi hotsummer, me, too. I never liked going to seminars. Like you said, its a total boredom. You're lucky if you don't feel like sleeping sitting there for even just a few minutes. And sometimes, there are even seminars that will just totally waste your time, realizing how they even had gotten you to come in the first place. Although there are speakers sometimes who are very good at doing there jobs and just makes you listen. But so far to all the seminars I've went through 99% are boring.lol
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@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
19 Sep 09
yeah, i hope that there will not do a seminar if they don't know how to keep the interest of people and specially if they have nothing good to say or new to say. they must keep their information new and always interesting.
@msfrancisco9369 (10002)
• Boston, Massachusetts
19 Sep 09
hi hotsummer!
i don't always go for an invitation to attend a seminar... in our country most of the seminars where friends will ask you to attend is a business seminars for NETWORKING business.
i am choosy in attending seminars, trainings and orientations.
if i am the speaker or facilitator you'll not feel bored... it will be a fun-filled seminar...an activity oriented seminar. hope you can attend in one of my trainings/seminars.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
19 Sep 09
it is nice to hear that you are speaker in seminars. yeah not all seminars are boring but all that i attended were boring though. yes, it is important to keep seminar lively but still sticking to the purpose of the meeting or seminar and that is to educate and inform.
@kadosa (16)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
Yup! Seminars are very important. I dont know why some people take it for granted. Like last week, i attended 3 seminars and the things that i learn on that seminar is better on the things that i learn from school. You wont lose anything if you attend. In fact it is additional to your knowledge.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
21 Sep 09
the topics in those seminars i attended were not the topics that i was interested actually.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
21 Sep 09
yeah it is just a general conception that seminars are boring. but i think not all. maybe most of the seminar you attended are interesting. actually the seminars that i talk or say as boring as seminars wherein the speaker don't really have the point and ilke they are up the stage just because they need to earn money and they are just babbling around and just making some stupid stories about their life, and etc just to extend their speech and to consume the time of the hours needed before they end the seminar. and so more often, it is just a waste of time. i think a lot of seminars are guilty of these, that they don't have any t hing good to say or any thing knowledge to impart to people. those are the seminars i attended. but if i will attend seminars like IT seminars, computer programming language, about SPeech development seminar, i think it will be a good seminar too. but i have not been on that kind of seminar. most of the seminar i had been too were just full of crap.LOL.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
20 Sep 09
Nah, nah,
I never go to the seminars. I find them very boring and I think that my time will be wasted by going there. I will make money by sitting at home and doing mylot rather than going to the seminars.
I have been to the seminars when I was a student and really, I found it very very boring. I once given an opportunity to give a lecture and I could see people yawning in frong of me!
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
yeah sometimes we think that we rather spend our time to earn money and work more than to waste our time sitting through seminars. and sometimes our thoughts and attention are not what the speaker is saying. and so our thoughts just wander and they speaker fail to get our attention. and many times my eyes so heavy that i feel like sleeping throughout the seminar.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
21 Sep 09
it seems you enjoyed that guest a lot. yeah i think if the speaker is great then we also get interested to listen to the speaker. i would definitely want to attend if the speaker is funny though i will not need to attend that seminar. just to have a good laugh is worth enough reason to attend a seminar.
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
21 Sep 09
yes, and belive it or not, I have seen our ministers sleeping during seminars! LOL!
but at the same time one seminar, I can't forget, where a 16 years old girl was a presenter. Her presentation was so nice that we thought that we are not in a seminar but we are watching a movie!
@kiblespatrol (19)
• Philippines
21 Sep 09
ive been also to a,lot of seminars before when i was still actively working on my profession as a nurse. we need to attend seminars in order for us to renew our licence when they reached expiration.seminars are boring especially business ones. ive experienced before going to a seminar without knowing what it is all about except that ill gonna earn big according to the poster ive read. in the end i found out that it is all about HERBALIFE and they want me to sell and buy their products..i got irritated because i spent my time for a useless thing because HERBALIFE has a known reputation to make to poor..many of my frends and relatives invested alot for this and ended up earning nothing..so i went home and cursed the people there because they didnt gave us a single clue at first.may be they dont want us to figure out HERBALIFE and immediately walkedout without even starting the seminar.haha
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
21 Sep 09
yeah. that is so true. they will give us some assurance that this is the way to go to earn big money in life without much effort. and even said that we can earn better than those who work in offices. in some extent it is true. but only few people succeed in that business. i forgot those products under this HERBALIFE. but we bought some products of HERBALIFE before.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
21 Sep 09
and to add. i attended AMWAY seminar. it is quite expensive to buy their membership fees. but that includes their product already. but i have no use with their product. but i wonder why so many people sign up on this kind of sites.
@sameerpathak123 (3)
• India
20 Sep 09
THE word seminar is bit boring related to few topic but it can be intersecting by some add fun to seminar it teach a lot to you because the presenter has done a lot research work to present some good work in front of you
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
but it seems some people don't actually prepare much for the seminar. that they do seminar specially when it is not a free seminar, that they do that to earn money than to educate people.
@wewally (16)
•
20 Sep 09
Whats your goal in life?. To learn as much about your subject and and become top in your company or class. Then go and take notes, sure it's dry stuff but being able to use it at work may get the next promotion. Job iffy, learn to know the folks attending the seminar and use it to help you find a new job.Keeping in contact with those folks will be a springboard to help you with knowledge when your in a tight spot,as well as providing references for pointing your job in different directions. Greg at widgets inc. says this works well for them, maybe we should try it here.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
but i think to learn from seminars, it will take more than just one seminar. and seminar is only additional knowledge and is not really the main way to learn but it should serve as inspiration for us to be more motivated to learn more and develop our skills.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
he he. i have not been in seminar with free buffet. i am after buffet i will spare my self the boredom. i will just to buffet restaurant and have fun eating there.
@moneymakingtoday (4061)
• Philippines
21 Sep 09
seminars at work can never be avoided and employees are required to attend. yes, it is usually boring ones but there is no other way to go but attend.
if i am invited to seminars outside work, i usually decline them especially if these are made to recruit members as in the networking thing. other seminars have the usual hidden agendas of offering u some amenities as free items to be given but in the end, they do it for business reasons esp. recruiting new members and downlines.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
21 Sep 09
yeah, there are some free give aways sometimes. i would get angry had not invited me to a seminar where they were given free umbrellas, shirt and etc.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
yeah , if the speaker is really so famous and have a good reputation of being a good speaker then i will definitely attend it too.
@satan88 (584)
• United States Minor Outlying Islands
20 Sep 09
i love seminars especially seminar classes. i think they're really fun. I always try to take seminar classes because they give you good grades. i also like large scale seminars with guest speakers because they always invites such intersting people.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
oh. it is good that you enjoy seminars when few people do like to attend seminars. seems you are really passionate in your studies that you will attend more seminars to increase your knowledge.
@earndeep (168)
• India
20 Sep 09
I've attended many seminars...
But most of them are boring, irritating though I have attended it due to compulsion. But at these situation I'll never mind about any thing, I'll choose myself to be seated at the last and have a deep sleep till the seminar ends.
But really some seminars admired me and made me very enthusiastic and enjoyable because listening is more important in gathering knowledge. The only thing is we have to decide which kind of seminars are useful to us, whose seminars will be interesting then it'll be worth for attending the seminars.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
yeah. in all those seminars i attended , i never learned anything that i was able to apply in life or was profitable in my daily life or in any part of my life. was totally a waste to be in that seminar. like we just given a diploma for attending but it does not mean any thing at all.
@martinatintin (85)
• Philippines
19 Sep 09
Hello!
First of all if the seminar is imporant the i will attend but if it's not then i will not, but most seminars have good content maybe in the speakers of the seminar or maybe in the people who will attend the said seminar, but im very idealistic when it comes to this kind of event.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
i too like to attend seminars but depending on the content and the topic. if it is something that will really educate me on something i would even gladly pay for it. but it just seems there are only few seminar have the topics that we are wanting to learn. most seminars i have been invited is about medical seminars and i am not interested on that.
@jera09 (29)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
It depends when it is within my interests. I have attended some seminars and found most of them exciting and a sort of learning opportunities for me. however, there were also seminars that I found boring. So, i make it sure that when someone invites me, I will ask some details about it.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
yeah, i do ask for details too. before i just go expecting some good times on the seminar. now i do ask for what reason is the seminar. for how many hours. and do we have a break etc. do i have to pay. then i will decide after i got the details.
@Archie0 (5636)
•
19 Sep 09
Hello hotsummer, well you know being a MBA student we have to attend the seminars every now and then, and trust me it is sometimes really really very stressfull thing to do, i too hate seminars sometimes and trust me they take away my life because we have to sit there continoucly for hours without letting go for breaks.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
yes those seminars are really taking our time to do those things we want in life. like staying at home or our free time to go elsewhere.
@prinzcy (32322)
• Malaysia
19 Sep 09
I also hate seminar as I am force to attend it a lot of time. It's not a choice to say 'no' when my working contract is on the line. My working contract is being renewed annually. If my performance is not good enough, there's a possibility it won't be extended. So I drag myself to attend the seminars and try to listen (which I failed) throughout the event.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
yes it is a prerequisite for our work to attend those seminars. i just don't know if those seminars really make a difference to some.
@sblossom (2168)
•
19 Sep 09
If I were you I would like going there. I think at seminars I can know a lot of information at very short time; also I will have more chance to know more people. It would be a good chance to have a social life. Also I suppose usually you will be treated with good meal. It’s a very easy atmosphere. So grab the chance and you don’t know what you will see and who you will meet. Before I usually had a few seminars invitation per year, now I have to stay at home to develop my world.
@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
the last seminars i attended were totally boring. but i think it depends on what kind of seminar that was. some people said they attended some fun seminars but i was not able to attend those fun ones.
