[snip] there certainly seems to me to be something about > programming and system administration (which require overlapping but not > identical skill sets) that seems to attract people who are generally > *less* socially inclined.[snip]
This is true. The same can be said for generic 'engineers' and 'scientists'. This is also what wooed me away from my oil company job as a sysadmin to work for a sysadmin consulting company. Technically competent admins are easy to find, but a whole large consulting company of ones that actually had a real personality, ... well in its day, that was a great marketing tool. Prior to that knowing admins with social skills I thought was an anomaly rather than what the norm should be. Even my son's college worked hard on recruiting non-typical people to turn into engineers (olin.edu). ... It can be done, but the work (engineer, programmer, admin, etc) does seem to attract people that would rather work with a computer or machine than with people. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss