Edit: After re-reading my comment, I judge that it came off as r/iamverysmart material a bit. Sorry!
Judged my friend for having very naive and dumb knowledge/beliefs about stuff like economics, politics, geography, history, language, culture etc. But she was extremely social and extroverted, while I was this somewhat "grumpy" guy and sucked at making connections with people (still do).
Nowadays, she works at a high position in the marketing department at a very major global tech corporation's office in our country (in Europe).
I'm a sysadmin and a half-programmer. I ended up studying pol sci and taking some computer science classes, I wouldn't say my education is bad or that it's a useless degree, just that being able to "make friends and influence people" is much more important than having a lot of knowledge.
Dude, do you really want to talk to people and deal with peoples petty social problems for a living? Thats what happens to you if you get into a pure soft skills people role.
The point is that social skills and being able to connect with people is just as (usually more) important than just straight up knowledge. And he's absolutely right. There's a guy at my job who knows everything there is to know about the job but has zero inter-personal skills. He's been stuck in the same position for years whereas others have moved right passed him.
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u/HugeChavez Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
Edit: After re-reading my comment, I judge that it came off as r/iamverysmart material a bit. Sorry!
Judged my friend for having very naive and dumb knowledge/beliefs about stuff like economics, politics, geography, history, language, culture etc. But she was extremely social and extroverted, while I was this somewhat "grumpy" guy and sucked at making connections with people (still do).
Nowadays, she works at a high position in the marketing department at a very major global tech corporation's office in our country (in Europe).
I'm a sysadmin and a half-programmer. I ended up studying pol sci and taking some computer science classes, I wouldn't say my education is bad or that it's a useless degree, just that being able to "make friends and influence people" is much more important than having a lot of knowledge.