What I mean by "reality" is a job where objective reality was non-negotiable. Where if you ignored facts in favor of feels you'd die, be inprisoned, or be fired and there was no squirming out of it with wordplay or sophistry.
e.g. were you an electrician? Try arguing with a 20amp circuit about whether that plug should be male or female and your heart will stop.
Were you a lumberjack? Try calling a tree names to prevent it from falling on you.
Were you a mechanic? Try replacing those lug nuts with recycled environmentally friendly soy paste and see how long it takes for that wheel to fly off and kill someone and land you in prison for manslaughter.
Were you a mechanical engineer? Try telling a client that your steel should be held to a lower tensile strength because you're a POC, and then explaining why you shouldn't go to prison when it fails and drops a bridge on someone.
Were you the short order cook at Bubba's Fish Shack? Try telling a fryer full of boiling oil that you identify as burn proof and stick your hand in it.
None of this loosy-goosey NGO nonsense where everything's negotiable based upon your verbal skills and everything's an opinion. I just can't trust someone unless they worked with hard realities where the consequence of feels over reals was absolute and unavoidable.
What I mean by "reality" is a job where objective reality was non-negotiable. Where if you ignored facts in favor of feels you'd *die*, be inprisoned, or be fired and there was no squirming out of it with wordplay or sophistry.
e.g. were you an electrician? Try arguing with a 20amp circuit about whether that plug should be male or female and your heart will stop.
Were you a lumberjack? Try calling a tree names to prevent it from falling on you.
Were you a mechanic? Try replacing those lug nuts with recycled environmentally friendly soy paste and see how long it takes for that wheel to fly off and kill someone and land you in prison for manslaughter.
Were you a mechanical engineer? Try telling a client that your steel should be held to a lower tensile strength because you're a POC, and then explaining why you shouldn't go to prison when it fails and drops a bridge on someone.
Were you the short order cook at Bubba's Fish Shack? Try telling a fryer full of boiling oil that *you* identify as burn proof and stick your hand in it.
None of this loosy-goosey NGO nonsense where everything's negotiable based upon your verbal skills and everything's an opinion. I just can't trust someone unless they worked with hard realities where the consequence of feels over reals was absolute and unavoidable.
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