@thor
What do you think of working in a blue collar sphere? Is it disgraceful or unrewarding in Norway? What reputation do the blue collar jobs have here?
@jimmy_insane Not particularly glamorous. The jobs are often held by immigrants from poor countries. You sometimes see locals doing them. My next-door neighbour is a Polish guy who works in construction. He rents a tiny apartment just like me, despite having a job. He smokes and drinks a lot and isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
@jimmy_insane As I see myself, and my friends know me, I'm capable of some pretty brainy things, but they usually expect you to have some patience, endurance and reliability too. I'm easily bored. Bored out of my mind to the point where I can't concentrate. Bright kid, but never did my homework in school, so my grades suffered. In those cases, I get up to do stuff around the house, or take a walk, because my brain is trash for the rest of the day. Of course, you can't do that while you're at work, so you're just stuck there like some kind of idiot...
@thor the worse thing is to be promising but never to actualize your potential people keep talking to you about. I found myself in the situation, in which I feel I'm being gazlit by people into believing that I'm smart and promising but that's not due to their malice but otherwise - due to their politeness and gentleness and my misunderstanding of obvious things they see but I don't and will never do.
@jimmy_insane Being smart isn't all that it's chalked up to be, as I've come to discover. What does seem to count for a lot is everything I'm bad at: diligence, orderliness, patience, self-control, etc. The statistics show that there are medium-IQ college professors and high-IQ janitors.
That janitor with the high IQ might be smart enough to get a PhD, but would he have the motivation and patience for it? Probably not. He probably likes to work with his hands. Maybe he has science and maths as hobbies and is fine with that.
One of the chapters in the Graysonian Ethic is "failure is an option". It talks about a time in my life where I thought because I was smart (and everyone told me I was smart so I didn't realize how retarded I actually am) everything would come easy, and people said you couldn't possibly fail in high school because it's designed to push idiots through, so I didnt barely even show up. Surprise surprise I flunked out of school and learned that failure is in fact an option, and it sucks. I spent a huge amount of effort just not having to graduate a year late.
So that's a danger of being called high IQ, you think you're too good for the work and destined to succeed.
Of course, there's also the fact that a PhD may not make as much as someone with a common skilled trade. They may be socially higher on the prestige ladder, but prestige doesn't pay your mortgage.
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