What do you do for a living?

[SmoothieX]

A friend of mine from business school does something similar. He's also a production manager, though his company makes inks and dyes rather than appliances.

 

[Nacluv]

A friend of mine from business school does something similar. He's also a production manager, though his company makes inks and dyes rather than appliances.

I actually never went to an education. I even hardly managed High School due to severe depression. I was able to work myself up so I'd say I've been really lucky. I make about twice as much as a division coordinator and ever since I was promoted from a regular worker, I've found the job stimulating.

Last year I myself was actually a division coordinator, which anyone with a brain can do adequately but it requires some more developed strategic thinking for my job. I'm surprised that I was promoted so fast considering how little time I've been here. Most people has been here for at least a decade.

I was a regular worker for 6 months then my superior thought that I was most suitable for the responsibility of the department where I worked and therefore told his superior (the highest boss) that I should be promoted to division coordinator.

I found the strategic aspects of the job to be stimulating. As a division coordinator you're responsible for the division's efficiency in production and therefore decide which person who should do what. I always builded and developed both theoretical and empirical models in my head of how you prioritize most optimally in all kinds of different and capricious situations.

Then a year later (January this year) the highest boss promoted me to Factory Coordinator and my ex-superior only handles import nowadays and gives reports to me. And he appreciates my suggestions but we always allow him to make the final decisions regarding changes in import by himself.

And what is your job?

 

[SmoothieX]

I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.

Er...I'm a civil engineer.

 

[REDrake]

I'm a lawyer. But not that kind of lawyer.

 

[SmoothieX]

I actually never went to an education. I even hardly managed High School due to severe depression. I was able to work myself up so I'd say I've been really lucky. I make about twice as much as a division coordinator and ever since I was promoted from a regular worker, I've found the job stimulating.

Some of the most intelligent people I've worked with are contractors with no degree at all who started in construction at an early age, learned the skills, worked hard, and can work a cubic yard bucket on an excavator like a garden trowel.

Some of the stupidest people I've ever worked with were PhDs who had never spent a day outside a lab and had no clue whatsoever.

I've also dealt with ditch diggers that are dumber than shit and PhDs on higher planes of existence than me.

I'll take the sniff test over the letters after your name any day of the week.

-Smoothie, licensed engineer in 5 states, also laid off twice in 6 weeks.

 

[DBR]

I'm failing at a career shit into journalism, and am going back into oil and gas safety consulting as of, like, today.

 

[Nacluv]

I actually never went to an education. I even hardly managed High School due to severe depression. I was able to work myself up so I'd say I've been really lucky. I make about twice as much as a division coordinator and ever since I was promoted from a regular worker, I've found the job stimulating.

Some of the most intelligent people I've worked with are contractors with no degree at all who started in construction at an early age, learned the skills, worked hard, and can work a cubic yard bucket on an excavator like a garden trowel.

Some of the stupidest people I've ever worked with were PhDs who had never spent a day outside a lab and had no clue whatsoever.

I've also dealt with ditch diggers that are dumber than shit and PhDs on higher planes of existence than me.

I'll take the sniff test over the letters after your name any day of the week.

-Smoothie, licensed engineer in 5 states, also laid off twice in 6 weeks.

Well, like I said, I was brilliant in school before I gradually started getting more indolent and more depressed when I was 13-14. Ever since I was 15-16 my grades just continued to drop although in the beginning it wasn't so visible at first. I was practically born dysthymic so when you get a depression on top of that it's called "double-depression". And also on top of this, I had/have no firm ambitions whatsoever. When I was 18 ½, I started feeling better than what I had felt the latest 5-6 years.

I was ambivalent towards what kind of high school I would choose to attend, mostly oscillating between IT, music and media (includes journalism, photography and movies). I chose media since movies had always been my biggest hobby, almost since birth. In that school, you got to try all fields (movies, journalism, photography, graphical design) the first year before choosing one for the second year.

In the last minute, I changed my choice from movies to journalism, which was definitely the best choice. Except that I enjoyed writing about movies a lot, I had realized and would come to realize more later that I had a really hard time working together with other people when making a movie often rejecting their ideas as banal, frivolous and ignorant.

A lot of the people who became my closest friends of those who went to the same school were those who had chosen movies as course but it was different with them. I sometimes had the opportunity to work together with them for school projects that could (depending on the nature of the chosen project) transcend our different directions in education. The Media was a division at our school and then there were different photography classes, journalism classes etc, etc. Although nowhere near my connoisseurship in history and obscure movies, at least they possessed a genuine interest in cinema beyond the latest blockbusters which made it easy to get along with due to our convergent interests. But I'm surprised at what regard they seem to hold me, considering that they could take any suggestion on their movies from me without even questioning any aspect of my proposition.

Back to the point; I always scored full on exams that didn't require time from my leisure, that means exams that only require intellect and reason or that revolved around areas I already had extensive knowledge in. I think the reason why I didn't try hard enough to take time for school work despite depressions is that as an Aspie, I'm dangerously obssessed with my interests; nothing else matters in life except stimulating my mind with my hobbies. And I have never really had any real ambitions. Compared to many others, I'd been content with a shitty job as long as I can daydream. Why go through and pressure my capricious mind into concentration for an education when I have no desire for any special or flamboyant job? Then I realized how hard it was to get a job prior to starting at this factory.

I didn't consciously pursue the Division Coordinator job. I was just chosen because he thought that I was best fit for the position and I was actually very surprised in the beginning. I only consciously pursued my current position after starting to see the possibilites after some time as a division coordinator. The strategies I had for working myself up were actually based and instigated by the fact that I had nothing to lose, neither in time or anything else. I mostly never had to do anything outside of my working hours to accrete in rank, I just kept myself more busy than usual as I took on extra tasks beyond those that you have as a division coordinator.

I think it's really a question of ambitions. Even an intelligent people can lack ambitions. Or he can be fully content with cleaning the streets as he's working out a formula in his head. I think that sometimes university educations are valued too much for some jobs and positions. Sometimes it becomes something that is only nominal and a nullity compared to other qualities. An abderite is most likely not to be able to digest even the most elementary of that which he is supposed to have learned. If I'd be forced to choose, I'd rather have someone who's intelligent but unschooled, rather than a cretin whose erudition only exists on a piece of paper.

 

[B.J.]

I'm failing at a career shit into journalism, and am going back into oil and gas safety consulting as of, like, today.

Nice typo!