| davpal - 1/20/2025 11:51
High IQ people don't think about a career path. They overthink their abilities and percieved value and that takes them into a world of make believe where nothing ends up happening. Our area is littered with high IQ people that can't hold 40 hour jobs. Almost every house has one living there. I pass several on the way to work every day. They are everywhere. And I'm pretty sure those guys are not in the camper thinking about dark matter equations and rocket propulsion formulas. Just a jumble of thoughts about greatness, superiority, failure, everybody else blocking their abilities, what could be, what isn't, what I would buy and what I would be if I had money. Going to a 40 hour week job and getting started with the first step isn't in the thought process. Before you know it you're old and totally disabled from holding any job. 30 years flies by with almost no years of earnings. Then it's too late. You have to work 35 full years to get any decent social security or to even qualify for it.
There is truth in this. I didn't come here to tell everyone "I'm smart". In most things in my life, I will firmly admit it has been more of a curse. I literally cannot turn it off. I am my worst critic. Intelligence does not equal cash. I go down some very deep rabbit holes to solve complex problems simply to prove something to myself. My stories are endless but as I reflect on life, I realize I have been taken advantage of most of my life because I allow it.
Yes, I am fully aware that now any sort of social security ain't in my deck and I know I either solve the equation now, or I make plans to dissolve my estate as soon as my body gives up because once you are in your 60s, with even a hint of medical issues, you are 100% dispensable to an employer. Then I'm out to pasture. And being alone means when I am broke down, I'm very screwed. |
Personal...."go fund me"...I need to fix my path.
