Do you enjoy your job?

[dougtrr2]

I was troubleshooting a problem over the phone with a technician on a missile site. We were having him make various readings to isolate the problem. The problem he said he had and the readings he was giving us just didn't add up. As I was looking at the schematics he asked if this was going to take much longer as his thumb hurt. I said, "What do you mean your thumb hurts?" He said, "Every time you have us make a reading I have to hold the circuit breaker in so it won't trip." Apparently he didn't think that little tidbit of information was important.

Doug in SW IA

 

[MossRoad]

I was troubleshooting a problem over the phone with a technician on a missile site. We were having him make various readings to isolate the problem. The problem he said he had and the readings he was giving us just didn't add up. As I was looking at the schematics he asked if this was going to take much longer as his thumb hurt. I said, "What do you mean your thumb hurts?" He said, "Every time you have us make a reading I have to hold the circuit breaker in so it won't trip." Apparently he didn't think that little tidbit of information was important.

Doug in SW IA

Whoah!! :laughing:

 

[ultrarunner]

Just like my tennant that cooked at home for her churches soup kitchen...

She wanted to know why her daughter had to hold the circuit breaker for her to run two big skillets...

Only time I've seen a circuit breaker cooked.

 

[Molalla1]

From what I read on social media sites (this one included), there are a bunch of very stupid people out there today. Such is life I guess.

:laughing: . . . yep.

 

[ultrarunner]

Sometimes Smart people decline... seen it way to many times... often with age and dementia which robs a person of who they were.

Then there are exceptions... 100 years old and sharp as a tack but needs help to move...

Such is life...

 

[MossRoad]

Sometimes Smart people decline... seen it way to many times... often with age and dementia which robs a person of who they were.

Then there are exceptions... 100 years old and sharp as a tack but needs help to move...

Such is life...

My friend's mother-in-law is well into her 80's and strong as an ox. She has the brain capacity of a 4 year old at best thanks to alzheimer's.

 

[strantor]

Sometimes Smart people decline... seen it way to many times... often with age and dementia which robs a person of who they were.

Then there are exceptions... 100 years old and sharp as a tack but needs help to move...

Such is life...

Barely related, but i was thinking about this today and this seems like a good enough excuse to bring it up...

Think of the most joyful person you know. Is that an exceptionally intelligent person?

Now think of the most intelligent person you know. Is that an exceptionally joyful person?

In my experience it seems that the more intelligent a person is, the less likely they are to be a happy person, and vise versa. Am I alone in that observation?

P.s. that's not to say a genius can't be happy and an idiot can't be unhappy, but you know just in general.

 

[MossRoad]

Barely related, but i was thinking about this today and this seems like a good enough excuse to bring it up...

Think of the most joyful person you know. Is that an exceptionally intelligent person?

Now think of the most intelligent person you know. Is that an exceptionally joyful person?

In my experience it seems that the more intelligent a person is, the less likely they are to be a happy person, and vise versa. Am I alone in that observation?

P.s. that's not to say a genius can't be happy and an idiot can't be unhappy, but you know just in general.

Your observations scream "Ignorance is bliss." :laughing:

Intelligence has nothing to do with joy.

 

[ultrarunner]

Barely related, but i was thinking about this today and this seems like a good enough excuse to bring it up...

Think of the most joyful person you know. Is that an exceptionally intelligent person?

Now think of the most intelligent person you know. Is that an exceptionally joyful person?

In my experience it seems that the more intelligent a person is, the less likely they are to be a happy person, and vise versa. Am I alone in that observation?

P.s. that's not to say a genius can't be happy and an idiot can't be unhappy, but you know just in general.

Some always happy people often have positions with routine and non supervisor position in my limited experience... Like the parking lot attendant downtown for decades... so many knew him because he left that impression at first meeting.

Very few powerful people I've come in contact with would I call happy...

Then again some religious seem almost infectious when I think about it.

Not sure if job satisfaction makes one happy or if happy people generally like their job?

 

[two_bit_score]

Barely related, but i was thinking about this today and this seems like a good enough excuse to bring it up...

Think of the most joyful person you know. Is that an exceptionally intelligent person?

Now think of the most intelligent person you know. Is that an exceptionally joyful person?

In my experience it seems that the more intelligent a person is, the less likely they are to be a happy person, and vise versa. Am I alone in that observation?

P.s. that's not to say a genius can't be happy and an idiot can't be unhappy, but you know just in general.

My observations of people over the last 64 years don’t support that conclusion at all.

Most of the really smart people I know are the happiest.