The work that will impress the most is usually found at the boundaries between skillsets, not in the nitty-gritty of one feild. It's the bikeshed problem in re

The work that will impress the most is usually found at the boundaries between skillsets, not in the nitty-gritty of one feild. It's the bikeshed problem in reverse. Nobody can understand your reactor design well enough to be impressed by the impressive things you did. They can have their socks knocked off by your bikeshed though. Even if your reactor design would get positive feedback from fellow reactor designers and your bikeshed is a laughing stock among bikeshed builders. Not to say that technical writing is frivolous or lower skilled as bike sheds are to reactor design, this is just the go-to story about approachability.