• @[email protected]
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    84 days ago

    … and you are so unique as to be virtually unemployable. Many jobs these days want you to be siloed and do not want to pay for extra skills. Replaced by a fresh grad who does only one thing but does it well.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 days ago

      Employment Contract, Pay Grade: $134,700.

      “I can conjure objects out of thin air”

      Materializes a stack of gold bullion bars

      “We offer a signing bonus of 20% for extraordinary talent such as yourself”

  • @Balthazar
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    485 days ago

    If you’re not a big fish, find a small pond.

    • @[email protected]
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      345 days ago

      Forget ponds, I prefer a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

      • @chemical_cutthroat
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        215 days ago

        This person sounds like they know what they are talking about. Certainly I don’t know all of those words together in one sentence. Must be an expert.

        • @Balthazar
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          54 days ago

          Thus demonstrating the post title.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 days ago

      If you’re the biggest fish in the pond, you’re in the wrong room Doris. This is a shelter for krill, Doris. Please leave.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 days ago

    Not in Science but this is true in entertainment. Not the best musician, not the best actor, not the best comedian, but being pretty good at all three makes me a sought out music director.

  • @Sam_Bass
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    54 days ago

    Sooo… Jack off all trades