Wouldn't you know it - I spent my career at Ma Bell's being a technology guy. I knew how the telephone network worked inside and out.
I worked with a lot of people who never bothered to learn technology - even when they were running a part of our technology business. They claimed they had engineers to tell them that stuff. I preferred to double-check the engineers. The Bell Labs types tended to put pure science ahead of practical engineering. My technical prowess was my edge.
But now I'm retired. Actually for quite a little while. You all know the pace of technology. I no more know how telephony works today than those clueless non-technical types I worked with. Fat lot of good all that technical know-how is doing me now.
Ain't that a kick in the ass?
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