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If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

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Re: If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

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Post by toxicflavor »

edw519 wrote: post #6

Let's see now... You took bad advice from the wrong person. You dumbed yourself down. You played the role of some other person, not yourself. You played someone else's game without expressing what you were really thinking. You settled for an inappropriate job. You're bored to death and wasting time in a dead end job for 6 months now. And you call that "Damn Smart"? [EDIT: The only smart thing you did (following up wi…

Exactly. That's what it means to do what you have to do when all things are not equal. When you can pay your bills you can afford to get choosy about work, but not everyone has that privilege. He played the game he needed to play to avoid a desperate situation.

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Post by motters »

edw519 wrote: post #6

Let's see now... You took bad advice from the wrong person. You dumbed yourself down. You played the role of some other person, not yourself. You played someone else's game without expressing what you were really thinking. You settled for an inappropriate job. You're bored to death and wasting time in a dead end job for 6 months now. And you call that "Damn Smart"? [EDIT: The only smart thing you did (following up wi…

All of the above are not a recipe for success, and may set you on the slow road to ruin. There's a tradeoff between holding out and trying to get a job which is really appropriate, and just taking any dumb job which comes along. It might be true that there are still many more dumb jobs than ones requiring high intelligence, and ultimately everyone has to pay the bills somehow.

If at all possible you should avoid wasting your time in a job you don't care about with people you can't relate to pretending to be someone other than your real self. Your time is limited, and it's a good idea to try to figure out what you want to do with your life, then act accordingly.

Re: If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

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Post by toxicflavor »

GBKS wrote: post #3

Sounds like a situation he put himself in by having no goals and just looking for anything that comes up. Instead of doing that, he could have done research in what opportunities his degree opens up for him and specifically target those areas in his job hunt.

In an ideal world perhaps. In the real world, sometimes you just have to suck it up to avoid an even more desperate situation. I think it's clear that's what he did.

Re: If You’re So Damn Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

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Post by toxicflavor »

boredguy8 wrote: post #9

Because I'm smart. Money certainly has utility, but it's not the be-all and end-all of my existence. It enables freedom in choices but doesn't become the reason I make choices. And it certainly has let me chose not to work with someone who is impressed by 'dumbing down'.

It enables freedom in choices but doesn't become the reason I make choices.

Well isn't that nice for you? Too bad it's not true for everyone.

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