• Global_Liberty@lemmy.ml
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    13 days ago

    IQ tests are largely worthless, so I wouldn’t take one formally.

    Sorry about your school experience. Being placed in a gifted program allowed me to make friends with similar people.

    I am envious of your career in the sciences. I foolishly pursued business, and while it has been financially rewarding, I am left with a sense of emptiness.

    My job and residence in Florida require me to follow the news to avoid the nonsense inflicted by populist leaders, but I spend my free time in nature or traveling like you.

    It is nice to connect to someone online with a similar experience.

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      12 days ago

      Yes, it’s nice to have this kind of discussion.

      I’m horrible at business and economy. Too many humans in the loop, I don’t understand the logic behind. And it really gives me the impression of fooling peoples. I tried to do consulting in freelance, but was really not my cup of tea. I quickly came back to employee. I’m really efficient in my job, so it gave me spare time to work on other topics. And as my company encourage innovation, It’s a win-win relation. I have a lot of autonomy and have regular bonus for IP and patent I fill. I know it’s penuts regarding money they do on my back, but I can work on things I like.

      I never went to Florida. I visit West coast twice (Seattle, LA, and San Francisco for job). US is so different than Europe. I felt like in amusement park, everything is so big, so clean (and a bit so fake 😂).

      It’s not the first time I heard about gifted program. Is it something common in US ? How does it works ? Is it a separate private school, or just a special class in classic school ?