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On Expertise

When you’re an expert in something, your whole life becomes watching people who are qualified to say nothing about anything say everything about your thing and get treated like they’re the next big thing. Doubly so if they’re a white dude and you’re not.

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TiffAching · 31-35, F

For anyone interested in stretching their brain, take a look at how many deleted replies there are here and consider that this post was literally just someone saying, “I’m a woman, and I am an expert in something, and I get ignored all the time” and try to imagine why the hell anyone would get mad at that.

canusernamebemyusername · M

I'm glad sw has so many experts.

TiffAching · 31-35, F

@canusernamebemyusername I mean, I get paid to be an expert in a subject area, but when That One Guy on the client’s Board thinks otherwise and starts spinning Folksy Yarns deriding the entire profession you work for and the other people charged with governance lap it up, yeah, it gets frustrating.

rfhh1959 · 61-69, M

@TiffAching Not knowing what you do (and not asking) I understand that moment when a client has that one person who thinks they know more than you. I always remember one thing as I gently shut them down. They are stroking the check.

I do not know about you but they always seem to sit at the furthest point away from you in the room so when they try to be the smartest person in the room they also the defacto "front of the room" at that moment.

JoeMW · 51-55, M

TiffAching · 31-35, F

@JoeMW Every time I see a photo of him and those mutton chops, I think that can’t possibly be him.

JoeMW · 51-55, M

@TiffAching It's a 70s thing, you had to be there lol

TjNewton · M

“Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.”

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