Don’t be deluded for one second by the poster’s narcissistic blather into believing that you possess some kind of prodigious intelligence that makes you either special or important. For those of you who have average jobs but feel as if your mind would be better suited to more engaging ventures: you are wrong. You *are* average. You are where you are for a good reason.

Just my two cents.

Sincerely,
Disgusted

Anyway, thanks again… great article!!!

I haven’t worked for over a year now but have been able to buy a home, maintain my bills and actually invest a little money in more land due to keeping tabs on my finances but have felt empty and not motivated.

Your writings give me confirmation that what I feel and my choices in career path might be correct. I have recently put off a PhD program to pursue knowledge in Linux – Unix system administration since its a lot easier to justify to my bank account and doesn’t need long bouts of experience to break into the field.

Anyway, thank you my good man /woman

I wouldnt consider myself particularly intelligent, but I definitely don’t think anywhere near the box at times. People around me are sometimes astounded at the tangents my thought processes take, particularly with verbal communication and to a greater extent via e-mail. Certain nuances which seem blindingly obvious to me are definitely lost on a number of other people (particularly colleagues).

In particular my work environment is not at all challenging and I find myself totally unmotivated as a result of proposing an almost relentless string of ideas, that are generally apathetically received. I have even “done the side project thing”, in fact its what I spend most of my time doing. When I complained recently that I have nothing to do (in a less than literal sense) a list of projects were reeled off, of which I had already completed them in one for or another in the previous 18 months, but all the ideas and code sat unused due to managerial inertia. I feel that I am always ahead of the curve and when things don’t happen fast enough I become disinterested and projects die. I really cant focus my energies on something I know is going to be passed over without a thought. I used to spend a lot of time doing projects that were actually used and ended up having business value … alas that ended when I was transferred into my current job (against my wishes, but at the end of the day I still needed to earn a roof and sustinence).

I honestly believe that my current job has killed all motivation that I used to have and I can almost feel the intellect draining out of my ears as I become ever more dispondent and disillusioned with the value of hard work.

I have completed the odd IQ test and usually hit somewhere between 145-150 mark, but I really don’t see its accuracy when I believe that intelligence is measured by more than a series of logic problems. An example would be relational intelligence, pure intelligence without communicative intelligence is pretty negligable and bordering autistic. Incidentally its only writing this that I have actually looked up to see what my IQ score means and I have to admit I am stunned, I never actually went beyond getting a score to find out what it meant. It was a series of problems that got solved and I moved on to the next.

I also have added insanity issues.
I can never stop thinking or processing everything I see all of the time in every aspect possible which usually leads to talking to myself, sleep deprivation, spontaneous laughter, rocking and frankly self harm as a way to deal with what I think of.
Being intelligent is a curse for the person it is imposed upon but a benefit to everyone else.