Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
I'm a happy enough guy, and I've been lucky with family in my life, so this comment, while it may sound negative , hopefully won't bring you down - it's just a general observation from 48 years on the planet.
Basically, I've noticed that most 'professional' folk - ie Doctors, lawyers etc these days are surprisingly mediocre people.
I always assumed, as a kid, that these people in lofty positions would be intelligent, eloquent, wise and charismatic. .
Perhaps it's because I was raised on TV and have unrealistic expectations, but the lawyers and doctors I've dealt with myself through work and in my personal are entirely unremarkable. I could forgive that if they were steadfast and competent, but instead I've found them to be mostly dull and poor at their jobs.
My superiors at work seems to be barely able to string a sentence together without ChatGPT, and our kids teachers are little better.
Anyway, rant over. Just generally fed up with how many, franky, inept people are in jobs that I once assumed were for exceptional individuals.
I've been of the position, although I've only worked in a kitchen is that some people just don't need jobs. We should give them the minimum to enjoy life of course but there's just too many people who are bored or too stressed out at work and make everyone else's jobs harder.
You seem overly smug. The typical "everyone else is an idiot but not me!" That's not new. AI has nothing to do with it.
There are countless genius people out there everywhere doing excellent things with their own skill and knowledge.
Of course there are. I'm far from perfect and fall dramatically short when compared to competent professionals.
However, you're missing the point. I'm talking about people I actually deal with in my life. People, through virtue of the position they hold, that I fully expected to be a cut above the rest of us.
These people have jobs that I personally (and I many others) thought would demand a level of expertise and dedication that puts them beyond the reach of most ordinary people.
Turns out I was wrong. These positions are teaming with unremarkable folk who seem to have decided that that's what they're going to do and have got there.
Perhaps the real issue is a lack of self-belief on my part, but I don't think so. I'm aware of my limitations, so therefore I'd seek to become, say, a doctor.
Having dealt with countless inept professionals I can only conclude that they were not deterred by their own shortcomings the way many of us are.
I guess you haven't been around a lot of "professionals." Doctors are often shockingly inept at computers.
Nobody denied that. But those are definitely not most people like the post you're replying to is taking about.