Not all those who travel listless and wanderers
Someone I knew from before got in touch with me recently. Another person who calls themselves an instructional designer. Isn't one. But that hasn't stopped anyone in India from positioning themselves as such. That is okay. A bunch of us got into this field accidentally. Some acknowledge that there are gaps in knowledge. Most don't. I think the incompetence is not a result of ineptitude or unintelligence. It is the result of a delusion that one is interesting. A few performative pottery classes here or there, piercings, tattoos, or orange hair, some music in a garage, or rage poems in an open mic. All this or any of this done often enough seems to lull a certain sort of person to think they don't actually have to do the hard stuff. Then a ton of time and energy is spent scavenging for approval from several quarters, instead of actually buckling down and learning about the work. Anyway, that's that. That person will mostly be mediocre for a few years and be outright...
