Every industry is full of non-technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
(The other post was technical hills. I changed the question to non-technical.)
Every industry is full of non-technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
(The other post was technical hills. I changed the question to non-technical.)
It should not be necessary to have public speaking skills to excel in IT. I didn’t waste hours of my life watching Ted Talks so that I could get a CISSP salary. I gave away my youth and free time to online courses, RFCs, Wiley books, home labs, and all that more so that I could just make ends meet.
Society sides with the extroverts who already excel at doing public speaking and expect everyone else to fall in line to appease the extroverts instead of just accepting that some people have skills that work here, and others have skills that work better over there. I hate making things so black and white—and I’m sure in the right environments/situations, people can improve on this kind of skill but I just don’t see why. Put me in front of a terminal and I’ll do my feckin job. That should be it. Don’t try to turn me into a monkey.
Every field, not just IT. Office politics combined with being outgoing and well spoken and suddenly they make >$150k but have no skills to show for it. Their management style lacks and is mostly based on discipline so they can say “I did something about this small mistake” and they don’t know the basics but get away with it.
I feel you.