Something to ruin your day ....

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An article on the web claiming that "The Best Jobs Now Require You To Be A People Person"

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/th ... le-person/

Have a nice day.

I think to be something like a mathematician, computer scientist, computer programmer or a scientist your social skills surely have to be at the very minimum, well colour me corrected. I've read a study that scientists and mathematicians tend to have higher AQs so you I would think that scientists/mathematicians fit in with each other like we do i.e they have to blend in with other members of the community.

My day isn't completely ruined, it was a exciting day today actually but this article made me a trifle upset to say the least.

All you have to be is a decent person, and not a total arsewipe, and you should do okay.

"The Best Jobs Now Require You To Be A People Person"

No, they always did. The article says absolutely nothing new.

Define "best."

Unfortunately, it is not just the "best" jobs that require people skills. The Vocational Rehabilitation office that I was working with also emphasized that their employers are requiring more and more soft skills in addition to the hard skills. And the employers that they work with only offer the lowest, most basic jobs.



The article stated that that was not enough, that a person needed to know how to work in a team. And, from personal experience, I have found this to be true. I never fought with teachers/employers or students/co-workers, but I did not know how to be friendlier than that. And I never could work in a team (work was either duplicated, missed, or incompatible), and eventually this led to me being let go.



That may be true to a degree. But with more unemployed people looking for work, and more people specializing in those fields, employers can be - need to be - more demanding and discriminating. So fields that had no reason to even value soft skills like people skills, could now require them, just to eliminate some of the many applicants for the few jobs.

Yup, and I've even started taking this into account on my job hunting. Read an ad and think nup, don't have the qualifications or not that one, I don't have enough experience and just add nope, that requires you to interact with people. I'm not an arsewipe, and its definitely not enough. Oddly though, I seem to run into an alarming amount of full-time employed arsewipes.

In matrix organizational structure, like Scrum, you have to have daily stand-up meetings to discuss the project you're on. Everyone says what they did yesterday and what they plan to do today. The problem with this is that since the people on the project have varied jobs, either people will ignore each other because they don't understand or they'll ask a lot of idiot questions to understand the basics of what the other team member is doing. The point of it was to keep people from goofing off and to head off potential problems.

No one ever wanted to hear about it if someone (usually an aspie/autie) saw an upcoming problem and it was just as easy for everyone to lie about what they were doing and continue goofing off or making mistakes. The meetings were just social cat and mouse games and polite chit chat.

The article is right, nothing new, but yeah, irritating.

I believe they are referring to jobs that require a lot of education and/or experience to qualify for, and pay very well. This is in comparison to entry-level jobs that pay minimum wage.

I just had an interview for a call center. I failed before and they are giving me another chance. This morning I just had to talk to a lady in California to see if I had the right phone presence.
I am waiting to see if I passed that stage.

I learned to be one.

I guess "people person"=team player

...which I ain't.

Does the new preference for "people people" mean that managers without good interpersonal skills will be replaced? I'm all for that. Most of my bosses were hopeless at motivating by winning hearts and minds, and in some cases seemed to display sociopathic and narcissistic tendencies. And surely boss jobs are the most coveted jobs of all, being so well-paid? The people they have power over could vote on how good or bad they were. Or is it just the common herd who are expected to be excellent?