Public Performance Anxieties?

[Plenum]

does anyone else have public performance anxieties?

I mean, like getting up on stage, giving a speech, or a musical performance?  Perhaps giving a talk to your co-workers at a team meeting?  or perhaps giving a speech at a wedding?

I've got a job where I just sit in front of a screen, and can do my work without anyone watching *how* I work.  They are only interested in the end results.

But one of my good friends is a high school teacher, and doing that work, in front of a classroom, with all eyes on you all the time ... well, that would be one of my worst nightmares to be honest, to be on display like that for hours each day, in front of different aged students.  

I don't mind working and 'performing tasks'; even this is just typing into a screen, and making your presence known.  And yet ... to be on display ... well ... notch that up to another yellow-ray anxiety of mine

maybe I fear being judged for my physical appearance.  Maybe I fear being judged for every misstep or mistake I might offer in a 'real time' situation.

But I am definitely not a public performer.  I always used to get a note so that I wouldn't have to swim at the school swimming carnivals.  I pulled out of a recital where all the school kids were playing recorder, just a simple piece of music, when I was in junior school (about age 10).