You need to keep an eye out for the predators. In the animal world the predators serve a good purpose. In our world the predators are a pariah. Now by definition pariah is an outcast - outside of the mainstream culture. This defines me in this culture in the human world. So maybe calling the predators a pariah is really my view of the world. I guess at this point you will have to accept my definition - maybe if I am lucky I may acquire one or two converts.
There are a variety of predators. I could go on virtually forever talking about the different types. So in order to save you the misery I will limit myself to one type of predator. I live in the corporate world. Actually I enter the corporate world 5 days a week, 8 1/2 hours a day. I rush in in the morning and rush even faster to get out. When I am in the corporate world I encounter a type of creature that I do not understand. Since I work in IT and development there are less of these creatures and more like me (or at least there are more that are sympathetic to people like me). I still have to deal with these creatures, and some are in IT and development.
These creatures are the type who naturally filter to to top of the corporate food chain. They get jobs such as management and salesmen. These creatures look at others and view them not as equals or peers but as food. People are their means to the top.
Many of these creatures have what you call people skills. Most people (or so I have heard) have people skills. As for myself I have learned some of these people skills, but I am not really comfortable with them. I hear that it is important to have people skills, but at best I can simulate people skills.
I am not putting down people skills, and I am not saying that those who have people skills are all predators. Some of my favorite people are those with people skills. The predators seem to like people with people skills and value this higher than any other skill.
While I work in this corporate world I have found that my skills are rather valuable. I have not had a job that I have not been able to master, except when it involves too much interaction with people. If I can keep that to a minimum then I will do well, no I excel (I say that without ego, I score low on the ego-metre).
These predators whose goal it is to force their way to the top of the corporate chain, do so by sacrificing (I mean sacrifice in the old sense where the heathens of the past used to kill innocent animals) anyone who is in their way. For some reason (who am I to imagine what goes on in their minds) they seem to thrive most on sacrificing people who would never imagine being a threat to them. Being the least threat I have often wondered why they do this and why I have been a victim.
This is why I call them predators. In the wild the predators find it easier to attack the weaker animals and eat them. This works well in the wild. This doesn't make sense in this world (or maybe it just doesn't make sense to me since I am quite a foreigner to this world) since the ones perceived as weak are actually some of the most useful. There are many predators and predators in training who work in a company who unfortunately do not contribute to the actual work of the company. The further they move up the corporate food chain the least productive they became. Not only are they less productive but the (so called) work that they do actually diminishes the productivity of those who are productive. This is to me a strange phenomenon.
I'm getting tired (physically, but more mentally). I will finish this later.
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