how long does it takes for avg intelligent people to learn your job?

curiousnathan said:
Sorry, but having an education doesn't mean you're intelligent. Sure, some jobs require a higher education than others, but not intelligence. It's easier to get an education if you're smart, but it certainly doesn't mean you can't if you're not.

aka there is a difference between the two
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Ah, true, I guess we just interpreted the topic of the thread differently.
 
It takes some level of skill to do what I do. Not everyone can efficiently manage their time, operate a vehicle, and manage huge piles of data at the same time while doing it all safely. It may sound like a bigger deal than it is, but it's a very tough job and it takes skill to handle it, so I'm pretty glad I am able to.
 
idk sometims people come in and tel me i dont liook like i play games so paperently u gotat have THE LOOK to work at geamestopt
 
I'm currently unemployed, so I guess I'll just answer this from the perspective of my previous job.

While I wouldn't say you have to be that smart to do my job, you really do need to have a good deal of background knowledge before you can even be useful. It's necessary to know at least the top 100 prescription drugs in the US market, their generic names, use, and knowing general pharmacokinetics doesn't hurt either. That, and being familiar with insurance billing and having absolutely outstanding customer service is a must... or you'll be eaten alive and I can't really save you. ]: So, I think it's a tough job, but I had a coworker who caught on muuuuuch faster than I did; it can be learned quickly if you're smarter than me.
 
My job requires intelligence, adaptiveness, talent, confidence and assertiveness . If you lack one of those, particularly the first three, then you are already irrelevant, for real.

curiousnathan said:
What's considered a "high intelligent job"?
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Ask the dolphins. {XD}
 
dogtree said:
let see how many ppl here have high skill job
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Several years. How about you? Always curious to learn what it is that you do. (:
 
Does someone ever fully learn how to be a teacher?

No but seriously, to be a teacher you need intelligence - both by the typical definition and also emotional intelligence, if you're dealing with young people you can't be ignorant and think only of yourself. To learn the basics might not take long, but to develop into a good teacher takes years of experience.





Happy GCSE results day!
 
I think a high-skill job doesn't necessarily involve any mathematics, and is highly subjective to your own skills and abilities, and to claim that any one job is "high-skilled" is kinda strange and somewhat bogus. Some jobs may require a lot of skill to someone who struggles in that area while others may find it a breeze.

Anyway. On to what my job is (will be) and what it entails. I'm currently in an apprenticeship, training to be an electrical engineer. As you might expect, this involves a lot of physics understanding various relationships and topics from electromagnetic induction to the photoelectric effect. It also involves some chemistry in understanding how atoms and ions behave in various situations. This also involves a lot of algebraic mathematics (in answer to the OPs definition of a "high-skill" job). Safety rules are a big part of this too. I will be training for a total of 3.5 years before my apprenticeship is finished, and then to specialise later will take me a further two, maybe three years. All in all 5.5-6.5 years to be properly trained for my future career, and I have to pass two exams with very strict guidelines.
 
I have a degree in accounting, my position is case manager, and I work with attorneys. My clients are individual taxpayers and small business owners within the 50 states and also they don't know how to file their taxes, d'oh. My job is fast-paced because there are too many misinformed people in the country. No, you can't list xyz as an itemized deduction on your tax return. Yes, you actually have to pay your taxes ye dummy.
 
All you need to be a research assistant is to have a basic level of reading comprehension and scientific literacy. The better you are at synthesizing information, great! But really if you can read a dense 15 page article on soil binding in the historic California grasslands and then extract the 5% useful for your project, you're fully prepared. So I would say it takes about 3-4 years of higher education experience, but not necessarily a degree.
 
dogtree said:
anything that involve math
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So does that rule out hardware troubleshooting and IT system maintenance? That's not something many have the patience to learn, and I'm constantly learning in this field, yet math is something I rarely have to use in day-to-day workings.

And time spent learning my job depends just how deep into it you want to go and how much of it you'll think you'll remember after learning all of it.
 
donavannj said:
So does that rule out hardware troubleshooting and IT system maintenance? That's not something many have the patience to learn, and I'm constantly learning in this field, yet math is something I rarely have to use in day-to-day workings.

And time spent learning my job depends just how deep into it you want to go and how much of it you'll think you'll remember after learning all of it.
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It also pretty much rules out professional artists, no? Writers? Many types of medical careers? Law enforcement? Athletes? Math is just something you learn, like everything else. It's not the end-all and be-all of skill.
 
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