Know your humor.
Even from binging in the retail hell mind grinder for a disgusting amount of time in my life, it’s a go-to trick I noticed works both during shift and not. If you can make the person laugh, it shows you are approachable, understandable, “human” in the sense that life doesn’t have to be too serious.
Most relationships I’ve seen successful amongst my friends have been attributed to “they make me laugh”.
Even my academic life has been riddled with compliments on how I write SOME things with sarcasm because really… there’s a miserable professor that has to read through it.
That and I noticed it’s culturally accepted that no one is to mess with the funny person. I’m shocked at how my mentally struggling, intorverted friend even SURVIVES banking… she’s the awkward funny one, that’s why.