For an engineer who is working in the power industry as programmer things hasn’t been easy for me. The title may have pointed out the little akwardness of this whole thing.
When you’re doing something that everybody else can’t really appreciate it’s hard to keep on a straight face. Just like a cobbler who is working in metal workshop. Everybody else is busy forging metal why you sitting alone sewing some shoe. While all of the other blacksmith has already have many shoes, and of the best brand, redwings, nike etc. You in your cubicle with no support whatsoever, just keep on sewing and sewing. And then all the other blacksmith comes to your cubicle and says “still sewing those shoes, bah nobody is using it”. The shoe I’m sewing will not turn out to be redwings or nike, it’s very unique, . . just say it’s a magical shoe, you can find a few in the market, but it wouldn’t come witth any known brand.
What makes things even harder is that, on of the shoe that I’m sewing is for the blacksmiths themselve. But they already have something another shoe for the same function. And this shoe that they like to use, . . . let just say it just like “selipar Jepun” not even a shoe on my count. When I went to their workshop they would say, your shoe is no good, I we already got a “selipar jepun” and we’re fine with our “selipar jepun”.
If I want to blame somebody I would blame my boss. Asking me to be a cobbler, even he knew that I’m a blacksmith by trade. But to blame him for asking me to do something that I really like would be a moot point. In any case I should be thanking him.
How would a cobbler gain a little respect in a blacksmith’s world.
