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by Cornpop Sutton ⌂, A bad bad dude who makes good shine., Friday, March 24, 2023, 00:51 (371 days ago) @ dictum
edited by Cornpop Sutton, Friday, March 24, 2023, 16:01

Not to rip on you gratuitously but of all people you should know very well, that the overly smart being routed into career death is common.

Like me for example which I have shared excessively. I'm exactly like that guy FSK described. Great promise following by years of wading in shit. So beneath the old me. But it's been my lot.

And how about you, 20+ years in straight Unix admin with no movement?

It's totally easy and a cheap shot to call someone an underachiever. This field isn't kind to experience.

One misstep and you're fucked, undesirable. Another way of saying it is:

Pedestrian IQ, just enough to do the actual work and be fairly challenged by it, is sufficient and just fine to hold a technology job. Like any other job.

Much more than that IQ and you're a threat and a target. You have to fit into the norms for any line of work.


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