Random Tuesday Button Monkey Musings

[textualdeviance]

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.

Comments

[ourdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

*watches video*

o_O

*is speechless*

[ironymaiden]

wow, my job is completely hopeless.

[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

Actually, all that video made me do was to go to Wikipedia and look up what a "browser" is versus what a "search engine" is. Because I didn't know. I just use the shit, I don't know what it all is.

So thanks for making me feel stupid, hon, I really needed that.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

:(

No offense intended, of course.

Truthfully, though, I kind of think of this like having a basic understanding of one's car or appliances or whatever. If one's going to use something every day, it helps to have a good understanding of how it works, so if something goes wrong, or you decide you want an upgrade or whatever, you know what you're looking for. It's a practical thing.