The Robot's Thoughts

Work is easier and better for me the less I interact with people.

I’m often bothered by the disconnect I get from some of my co workers despite having similar backgrounds.

We all went to pitt and are recent grads, for example. All of us majored in computer engineering.

So why is it that co-operation seems to be like pulling teeth around here?

I’m thinking it has to do with the disconnect between being a geek and being an engineer.

All engineers like to assume that if you got through a engineering program, you must be fairly geeky, and fairly bright.

I’ve seen a lot of individual cases with my own eyes which demonstrates to me that belief is just a generality, not a rule.

In all fields, medicine, science, engineering, and anything else will have people showing up for the paycheck. They have natural talent. They don’t know their limits, they don’t know their potential.

But they know the money’s good and they don’t hate it. Its not their calling. It’s a 9-5 thing.

Geeks generally hate the 9-5ers. Not because they’re stupid, worthless or talentless. Oftentimes, they’re not. Not because they can hold their own in the geeks line of work. That’s expected.

Often they hate the 9-5ers just on the principal that if you don’t love, why are you doing it.

Most geeks are stoked to be paid to something with computers. Pay me to program? Sweet.

Double Major in Business and Computer Science so that you can get recruited by Microsoft? Not so geeky.

More later. Lunch is almost over. I gotta get back to work.