There are tons of people with jobs who are average at everything. Or even below average. They still have jobs, but maybe not DCUM level jobs that pay $300,000 per year.

Garbage collector

Anonymous wrote:I'll be honest, I am not naturally detail-oriented. Despite working really, really hard, I'm still not great.

Guess what? I'm a really successful attorney. I've learned how to delegate the things I'm likely to miss (paralegal calendars, junior associate proofreads), and I still put in a lot of effort into getting the details I'm likely to miss myself. My focus tends to be on strategy.

Over used words (aka "I'm a big picture guy) for people who lack sharp eyes

Anonymous wrote:Landscaping
Hair stylist
Musician
Graphic designer
Digital Marketing
Sales (Tech, Pharma, anything)

Is this a joke?

If you are a man the answer is all of them and then “ delegate “ ie dump all the low level admin tasks on female colleagues.

Do I sound bitter?

Anonymous wrote:Teachers frequently establish a curriculum then teach that over and over again. You have to grade papers and turn in grades, but not frequently.

Are you kidding?

I grade 6 days a week. I have to track 15 assignments x 170 students. That’s 2,550 stapled sets of paper I need to comment on, document, and return every 9 weeks.

And they never come in at the same time as students regularly turn in late work. So I have to track that.

I have to track accommodations for about 1/3rd of my students, so that’s 50 students who receive different work or different testing accommodations. And it’s legally mandated that I must do this correctly. So that means one test can have 5 different versions and have to be delivered in different ways (digital instead of paper, orally administered, 25% extended time, 50% extended time, large print).

And curriculum? I don’t get to pick my classes. I have to learn a new one every 2-3 years, adapting it to fit my style and my students’ needs.

I’d fail as a teacher if I didn’t have laser-sharp attention-to-detail and meticulous organization.

Hating tedious documentation processes is different from not being detail oriented. If you get annoyed having to log everything you do, maybe look at smaller orgs and see if you can suss out how they operate during the interview.

I’m not naturally very detail oriented but I’ve been successful as a teacher by establishing/learning systems to help me organize. I closely observe what other teachers do to organize themselves and try to emulate practices that seem achievable for me.

I'll be honest, I am not naturally detail-oriented. Despite working really, really hard, I'm still not great.

Guess what? I'm a really successful attorney. I've learned how to delegate the things I'm likely to miss (paralegal calendars, junior associate proofreads), and I still put in a lot of effort into getting the details I'm likely to miss myself. My focus tends to be on strategy.

Every single job on earth requires people to be detail oriented to be good at it.

Landscaping
Hair stylist
Musician
Graphic designer
Digital Marketing
Sales (Tech, Pharma, anything)

Teachers frequently establish a curriculum then teach that over and over again. You have to grade papers and turn in grades, but not frequently.

Anonymous wrote:Real estate agent. No min IQ or education required.

I don't want a real estate agent who doesn't pay attention to the details. And they are required to get certified, which involves classes and taking at least one final exam.

Real estate agent. No min IQ or education required.

What do people do when they’re not super meticulous and can’t do things like keep updating crm for project updates