Be smart, inform yourself

No matter which country you work for, make sure you inform yourself and use google for important news about that country. A lot of clients want to talk about things happening around them, like corona lockdown rules for instance. It takes you only a couple of minutes to update yourself daily. Avoid politics and religion as topics, always divert those.

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