Blah blah.

[pen_grunt]

Me: [Asking client informed questions about retinal pathologies so I can write them into the script, credibly.]
Boss (post-call): Wow. I'm super impressed by your knowledge of those things! You make us sound really good.
Me: Um. I read the document they gave us?
Boss: But you used all the terms correctly! And knew how they were connected or not connected!
Me: Um. She sent us a document outlining all of this.
Boss: Yes! But you synthesized the information! And spit it back out in a way that shows you understood it!
Me: Um. She sent us a document. Did you not see the document?

I can read! Go me!

This happens a lot. I don't know why people are impressed by the ability to just *read* the damned material. But apparently they are. Or maybe it's the understanding that's impressive. I don't know. It's not that hard. I may not know a thing, but I can learn a thing very quickly.

This is also what I like about my job; I get to learn an incredibly wide variety of things. Not necessarily with the greatest depth, but enough to explain them to a broader audience.

Comments

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Cue that guy from the black-and-white Progressive commercial: "Where is your HUSBAND??"

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

So taxing for my ladybrain.

[grenacia.livejournal.com]

Reading and correctly understanding something new and technical is a surprisingly rare skill, even when the information is presented well. But when it's a skill you have, you don't notice it as special until you see others failing at it.

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

While you feel like people under-estimate you, I promise you that it is rare that someone read things like emails and etc. And working at a community college, it's even more rare that your boss is paying attention to what you're doing....I'm mostly ignored and assumed to be doing well but I could easily be sitting in my office most of the day playing candy crush.