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Old Jun 17, 2017, 10:57 PM
mogwaifn mogwaifn is offline
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In terms of understanding the office environment my Ts haven't been too bad. I think attention to detail makes a difference. For instance, my work gets subjected to a lot of auditing and oversight, so sometimes I have issues with clowns on other teams justifying their own existence by making problems up, but never with anyone on my team (in fact they are amazing). It's fairly standard in a lot of industries but the amount of people that misunderstand and think it's people on my own team I hate and/or that I'm having a miserable time (both untrue) is phenomenal. It's more an irritation.

My main area of concern is if Ts understand the career aspect of it. Because my undergrad degree is used in a number of industries people often naively think I can just waltz into another industry no bother if things go wrong. In reality what I do is so specialist that switching careers is much, much harder these days. Several times I've been in tough situations in my career where a T has gone 'well you can just do X' where X is some naive pretend solution - I've been in my industry for 15+ years and seen what works and doesn't. My last T knew enough to not give career advice PLUS seemed to realise my career isn't as straightforward as people seem to think - breath of fresh air.
Thanks for this!
brillskep