Random Tuesday Button Monkey Musings

There are times I feel terribly inept at what I do, and figure I'm doing something that any idiot can, and therefore will continually face a struggle to get the career I really want.

But then I see stuff like this, and I'm reminded that I'm a freaking genius compared to most.

I suspect I only feel inadequate because I live in Geektopia and spend a lot of social time online, and thus most of the folks I know are at least as tech-savvy as I am, or considerably more. And, well, I live with a brilliant coder and networking wizard who is more or less bonded with computer guts on a molecular level.

There definitely are a lot of people in my immediate world who have equal or greater knowledge of both media and tech, and thus I'm sure to have a lot of competition for jobs around here, but in the larger world, my skillset really is pretty unusual. Most people certainly use the stuff I create and muck around with, but they haven't the first clue about how to make it themselves.

Yeah, I'm not exactly curing diseases or feeding the poor, but I'm still doing something rare and, IMHO, fairly important. And maybe that's enough.