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I actually think you get more respect if your boss (or his nephew) can't do your job.

At my last offfice job the programmers doing graphics/OpenGL stuff got way more respect than the web developers.




If your boss can do your job, then he understands its technical realities and the problems you may be facing.

If your boss thinks his/her adolescent nephew can do your job, then he probably doesn't understand it and views it as a low skill position.


You would think so, but that's mostly not the case in practice.

A lot of people that don't know what you do will assume it's simple enough.

It's just not worth their time. That's why they never learned to do it.

For instance, I used to think sales and marketing were easy until I had to do it.


Yeah it probably depends on what the job is. If it's generally seen as skilled and prestigious then you'll get respect but if it's skilled but seems easy then you won't.




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