How do you deal with the fact that people who were worse in school than you were, are now on a higher position than you?
Met three underperformer from my old high school. Two of them (guy A and guy B) were below average in my math class. But at least guy A had some artistic abilities (later he dropped out of computer science program probably because of math). Guy B was void of any talents. The third guy (guy C) couldn’t do math to save his life (but is a good talker and got lots of confidence.) Guy A is now technical director of a subsidiary company of one of the largest insurance company in Germany. (Lol what???) Guy B is now Head of the IT BI analyst team at a well known bank. (I thought he would have dropped out of college too) Guy C is director of business development EMEAI at an industry known design company. (No way!!!) I’m currently an intermediate software developer. And I’m thinking how did these guys get there and that the world is a little bit unfair. :/
Based on their titles they are leaders and you’re a mean average engineer.
Im quite versatile. I studied a different subject but switched fields after graduation and worked as a PhD student to a software developer position. I taught programming myself yet still became technical lead in my last company. Besides coding I do arts as a side hustle (selling my designs online) Heck, if they made it that far, then i should be twice as far as they are. But I’m not. That’s what frustrates me
No, management is not what I’m after (I’m afraid of losing my technical skills by going into management; also I live coding). I aspire to be a software architect. But that will probably take another 3 years.
Only Wilson.
Angie to the rescue!
We have never heard of guy D
I talked about 3 guys and myself....
You did not. Maybe your GPA at school was 2
Life isn’t fair. Also, stop comparing yourself to your peers. Focus on your own development and what YOU want to get out of life.
Why are we even talking about fairness?! What’s unfair about someone being bad at school and then great at the workplace? “Fairness” implies some sort of moral misgiving in the past - these people just had different talents than the OP.
Two girls at my school studied no math and no science, ended up being 1st and 2nd overall in the class. They studied PR and law initially but then changed to medicine and both are successful doctors. With no math or science. School doesn’t matter anymore once you grow up
Who is more happy. That matters. Period!
Right now not me. Lol
Life isn't fair. Why is that someone on Instagram can make more money in one post than I can in 10 years? Everyone is different and different opportunities exist for different people. You have to embrace what you can get and go after that.
People make money based on what people want. These influencers make money from unfulfilling ventures.
They did a great job convincing you. If you have three examples, I think they played and made a fool out of you, sorry.
Nonsense. Why would they do that? Back in school they were proud of having a B- they are guys who like to party and get drunk
School education is completely different. You can't gauge a person's talent with the grades they scored.
If you were doing bad in school doesn’t mean you’ll be bad for the rest of your life. People change and grow. School is not defining your whole life.
They haven’t changed a bit. They are the same jerks back in high school
You are confusing academic aptitude with what it takes to succeed at the workplace. Many 4.0 GPA students I hired from good schools were terrible.