While working on a problem at work today I had a thought...about my younger days working as a web developer in a university. The weather was hot and approaching unbearable just like today. Unlike this office, the state university office had air-conditioning. So one day we were having a go at each other after lunch. I was a real bookworm so I always had an answer for just about everything computer related. And my liberal arts degree handled just about everything else. One of my colleagues decided they were going to test my SAT test taking skills and asked me some random question from one of the hundreds of biology books stored in the office. By this point my last biology class was freshmen highschool years (about 8 years). While I can't remember the question, nor the answer, now I do remember the look on everyone's face when I answered correctly.
In some ways I astonish myself because I've acquired a lot of things in the head over the years. Most of this is outside of my core competances. But you never know when someone will call on you to see if you know something completely outside your field. I'm a software developer and I rarely delve into the Active Directory stuff these days. I've had that brief spark of clarity where a network problem stumps someone else and I'm able to answer the question.
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