Originally posted on r/AskReddit on April 23, 2022.

So, in your lives, do you encounter such folks, and what are their skills? How are they doing as of now?

  • glau@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    Academics needs good discipline for the most part provided you have an okay head for it.

    Somebody with a very high intelligence can cruise by for a while, but they will hit a wall eventually where they need to sit down and do the boring, borderline useless or administrative stuff too. Lots of people have a hard time to find the motivation to do these parts and fail.

    • MaxVerstappen@lemmy.world
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      2 年前

      Yep, straight A’s in all AP classes right up until college. Party life and not being prepared for the stuff you are talking about really derailed my progress.

      Ultimately I realized I can make good money in IT without a degree but it’s still much harder to get past the automatic screeners without a BA.

      It would be nice if other industries had certification programs like IT does. I took a couple classes not long ago and really enjoyed them but it’s so hard to manage work, school, and parenting nowadays.

      Stay in school kids!

    • Today@lemmy.world
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      This. Never studied, just kind of coasted through school disengaged. Low tolerance for repetition. Now i find myself cycling between learning new things and then having no motivation to apply them.