[Katsunami]

In The Netherlands, we have a saying.

"If you can't do anything and know nothing, go into management."

It seems to be true. I've checked on some people who were co-workers in my former workplace.

Half of them has moved on to a position of teamleader, supervisor, or manager, at either that company, or somewhere else. Most of those weren't the brightest people I've ever met...

The other half is now working in some technical field (IT, software engineering, mechanical engineering, etc...); not holding a management position, and as far as I can determine from vacancies, earn less than the former group.

The one thing that sticks out as a sore thumb is that everyone (E-VE-RY-ONE) in the first group has no education apart from high school, and everyone in the second group has an education of at least bachelor level (BEng, BICT, BSc, or MSc).

That just irks me. It just looks like companies always select the best talkers to do the management instead of people actually having a brain and a track record of being able to complete something that requires a decent amount of effort and intelligence. (I just assume/hope completing does prove that...)

And obviously, I'm in the second group.