Quote of the day

Today was a rough day. It was harder to get out of bed than it has been in a long time. Getting to the door was even harder. I stalled as long as I could. The walk to the car took a great deal of physical effort.

Later, out of nowhere, one of the senior people in my group asked me: "Can you believe that this is what you do for a living?"

We were sorting through a spaghetti web of bureaucratic nonsense of the highest order. Stuff so insane you could go blind just thinking about it. Which, incidentally, pretty much sums up my current job description.

When I got back to my desk, I couldn't escape a simple thought: "Is this it? This is what I took all those classes for? Did I really get an education to do THIS?!?!!"

And that little wry voice in my head answered: "Of course."

Looking back it all comes back into focus. School was just a training camp, getting you acclimated to go somewhere you hate for most of the day, be surrounded by dim-witted morons, and "learn" shit that has little to no value at a lowest common denominator pace from people who had so little real-world experience that they were forced to become teachers.

Not that "higher" education was any different. So the people who surrounded you were smarter, at least in engineering. The liberal arts people seem more like high school students on their second wind (or second binge?). Alas, it made no other practical difference. The professors were still idiots with no real world experience. I must say that they were better liars. They actually believed you would use the skills they were teaching. What a load!

Fast forward to your first, second, third, which job am I on now? I forget. And in every one, it's the same damn thing. Inescapable, really. The depth of human stupidity is astounding. The surprising part is, you can be in research / testing, production, sales, whatever, and the same thing holds true: People are dumb, stupid shits. You can be surrounded by a horde of the most educated people and they will absolutely fail at any task you hand them. Guaranteed. I have come to realize that jobs merely enable dumb shits talk to other dumb shits about more dumb shit.

And by extension, of course, that all human effort is a giant pile of stinking, raw shit!

(sigh) . . . at least it takes all pressure of expectation off . . . .