• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    I will try and check those out, thanks for the reading list =D

    But uh… yeah.

    I had a terrifying ‘validation’ moment when I realized that +/- 1 year of when I graduated Uni…

    That was the peak of average US literacy and math abilities.

    I have always gotten a lot of shit for describing myself as usually the most intelligent person I know personally, in the real, in most social situations I am in…

    And well now the chances of me personally running into someone on my level who is younger than me are approaching zero.

    Most people I meet, even doctors, other kinds of professionals… they do not believe me when I tell them I have two degrees and used to work for MSFT, a Fortune 500 logistics company, that I independently taught myself how to code in multiple programming languages and SQL, unrelated to my degrees, that I have enough knowledge to build a video game from “scratch” (yay Godot!), because I have also been making video game mods for two decades…

    They just think I am literally crazy and making it up, because I don’t look or talk like a corpo type.

    Yep, I just love it here.