Writer's Block: School Ties

[vovat]

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My undergraduate major was history, which I really don't use in my career. My graduate major was library science, which I use a little. For the most part, I didn't really use my education as a means to an end. A guy I know from an Oz e-mail list once described himself as an "intellectual magpie," and I think that fits me as well. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to make any money from that kind of study.

I guess I consider myself reasonably well-informed, but there are some areas in which I'm totally ignorant. I've noticed, however, that being well-informed isn't really of that much use in most situations. I've been in so many situations where someone said something that I knew was bullshit, but I just couldn't think of any way to reply intelligently. And even when you do, sometimes people just think you're being rude. It seems like the trick to being believed and accepted is to show confidence and sound like you know what you're talking about even when you don't, and that's just not something I have down.

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"It seems like the trick to being believed and accepted is to show confidence and sound like you know what you're talking about even when you don't, and that's just not something I have down."

I say nuts to that on principle. The world is changing now. I think we're going to come around to valuing this trait much less than it currently appears we do.