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How good are you at your job?

I'm one of the best in the world? 24 15.29%
 
Very good. Best in my com... 36 22.93%
 
Good enough. 71 45.22%
 
Mediocre or Barely qualified. 14 8.92%
 
So bad. Surprised I have not been fired yet. 12 7.64%
 
Total:157

I'm an illustration student with focus on interactive media and work as a graphics designer on the side.

I'd say I'm decent at my side job, but I've kind of stopped trying because almost all the customers we work with (big conservative coorperations, shopping malls etc.) wont appreciate creativity and will prefer the most basic and boring solutions instead.

Everything we touch is usually already predefined by CIs anyways so there isn't much for me to do.

Also my Boss has a personal dislike of me and likes to shit on my work for no reason. It's funny cause she'll love it when she thinks my colleague is the one who did it and when she finds out it was me she'll go like: 'Oh. Well, it isn't that good after all..' and then ask my colleague to do it over.
Sooo I guess my asscrawling skills need serious work...?



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I'm just a grocery clerk (so stocking and bottle return room). I've only been there a month, so I would say that I'm good enough. I only make a little above minimum wage.



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Switch: 151 million (was 73, then 96, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million)

PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 57 million (was 60 million, then 67 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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SvennoJ said:
I'm a VR tech influencer and I suck at it. I don't even get paid for it.

Trust me, it isn't you that's the problem, it's the tech itself that is at fault for this  :P



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

I dont have a job, I'm still a high school student now heading into grade 11. I get straight A's, so I guess I can say I am good at my job?



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

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flashfire926 said:
I dont have a job, I'm still a high school student now heading into grade 11. I get straight A's, so I guess I can say I am good at my job?

Don't get too comfortable. I've seen it happening to my old colleagues, school perfomance isn't the sole indication of future success, in fact, planning and social skills play a bigger role. Just a bit of advice :)



I try my best, but I get paid the same, regardless of how good I am doing.

In other words, mistakes happen, if I don't get caught, who cares.



vivster said:
Network admin in a fairly big company. I'd say I'm pretty good or else I wouldn't have so easily landed that job. I think in my current capacity I'm certainly one of the best as I'm definitely overqualified for what I do. The thing is I don't really need a better job.

The only thing that's above my current position as a simple admin is CIO/CTO or at least team management but I really don't want to be that. I love networks and I love being close to the metal and doing actual configurations and being creative and troubleshooting stuff. Every position above my position would ensue more management and I just don't want that, no matter how much it pays. Would I be a good leader or project manager? Hell yeah I would be, but I just don't want to. I could also be a consultant but that's pretty exhausting for me with all the traveling and talking to people.

I'm probably gonna stay a simple technician my whole life unless circumstances force me into management or consulting.

That would be the right choice in my opinion. As a programmer I never wanted to get into a lead position, I just wanted to write code, fix broken code. Yet due to circumstances I got pushed more and more into other things, spending half my day on answering emails or writing documentation and even got send out to lawyers halfway accross the country to resolve patent disputes. The added stress wasn't worth it. Just give me a tough bug list to solve or a new problem to tackle head on. I probably wouldn't be a good project manager anyway, and end up doing it all myself. I could be a good micro manager :/ (My first project manager was like that, he basically wrote out the exact pseudo code just to be translated into c, waste of time)



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Grocer, have been working for almost 4 months now, and my bosses tell me the store has been in a better shape ever since I arrived, so I guess I'm good at it? I don't believe because I usually never finish finish my own goals of supplying and putting prices to the stuff, but I guess performing excellently would be hard since the store is quite big, it's tough to do everything on my own.



My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first.