Step 1: Don’t assume that I’m wrong because you watch too many TV shows where the husband is an amiable dunce and the wife is a friggin’ genius at everything.  Hint: It’s a Hollywood script.

Your first and last lines are almost diametrically opposed. And networking with colleagues can be a source of experience or education, as far as trading experience or “how we solved this problem at our company.”

Not sure what kind of engineer you are, but ever hear of competition? Unlike you wunderkind, a lot of people work in very competitive industries, and simply ‘be good at your job?’ is far from the only attribute required to obtain work. I am also an engineer and ‘do good at my job’, using your terminology,…

Fair, but for those of us who work in fields with skills that are a bit more nebulous (non-profits dealing with human beings) it isn’t always clear from a resume who is going to do well. It’s much more about “fit” and whether you have the kind of personality that can stand direct human contact for an entire day. When…

And yet, not all of us are STEM inclined. No matter how good I am at being a lawyer, I need to network if I want people to call me. Maybe in a few years once I’ve built up a consistent base of clients where word of mouth about my abilities is sufficient I could stop (my boss doesn’t network anymore), but being the…

Someone who is good at their job can still get laid off if, say, the economy crashes or the company tanks.  And then what?  Your next gig will be way easier to find if you have a solid network of colleagues who not only know you do good work but actually LIKE you, because they got to know you as a person BEFORE you…

How did Newark make it and MSP didn't? Newark has more connections but yikes would I not want to be stuck there

ORD? LAX? Newark? Seriously? Have you ever BEEN to these airports? They’re complete shit holes to be stuck at for any reason. I refuse to travel to any of them unless I have no choice.

Most photographers I know post their shots on Flickr, I’ve never known anyone to share out tons of photos on Google or Apple’s services.

and this is what happens when you let things like the Health (or education) of your citizens go for profit. it SUCKS.

But but but we can’t provide government healthcare to everybody! Just because we’re literally the only developed nation on the planet who doesn’t do that, and just because our private system results in our paying more per capita for healthcare than fucking Lichtenstein—a country made of of twelve billionaires and a…

Medicare for all?

The current system should be scrapped. Privatized healthcare tied to your employment was a terrible idea from the start. It has nothing to do with Obamacare. Premiums and deductibles were skyrocketing way before Obamacare. Scrap the current system and go to single payer, or expand Medicaid so that anyone can get on…

They could try doing something other than “set the whole thing on fire and complain that Obama made it so goddamn flammable”.

A rebuttal:

You have to fight because statistics can be manipulated in a vast variety of ways. It all depends on what side of the argument you’re on and then you can tailor the criteria for the data in a way to ‘prove’ your point. Does a wage gap exist? Probably a small one even after taking into account all of those external…

Replying & emphasizing because your point often goes missed.

I mean, the thing is that this is an issue where there are legitimate disagreements about methodology and conclusions. It’s very hard to do sound social science on these topics. Reasonable people can reasonably disagree about the size and sources of the wage gap. But as soon as you accuse anyone who thinks the gap is…