My mother said my father couldn’t tie his shoes properly. He was literally a rocket scientist. As in, the company he worked for designed things that went to space on rockets (to be fair: not the propulsion systems themselves, i.e. not the rocket itself) and he was a scientist.

As for me, I’m pretty much a wizard with computers, but not so great at social interactions. I had to learn a new computer system last year (one that isn’t publicly available, it’s not really an OS per se, more of a specialised interconnected system with its own language) and I do stuff with it that people who have been using for years told me they never thought was possible. Because I RTFM and I try shit.

Talking to people… if we start out on the same page I’m good, but if the tone/mood shifts, I either falter and people lose interest in me or take offence to something I said, or I catch on and get out before that happens. I think now my coworkers realise that about me and don’t really push me into awkward social situations for the most part, and just kinda let me work my magic. I’m just glad they found something I’m good at.

Well, if i had any interest in answering phones, I wouldn’t have dismantle them in the first place. Or, for younger folks, the risk of losing contact for installing a custom OS in your phone is not that big.