> I'd advise against this in most places. I've done the whole "work not socialize" thing and it comes up in 1:1's as anti-social behavior. Same. I've had manag

> I'd advise against this in most places. I've done the whole "work not socialize" thing and it comes up in 1:1's as anti-social behavior. Same. I've had managers in the past express this in different ways. Eventually I learned to just be present, smile, and crack some jokes. Usually that affords me the ability to say my dog needs me, or something. > Self-learning was the only way to getting a successful career after a very toxic "education" experience I went through in the middle-of-nowhere Iowa. Mine was a private school. Interestingly the content was great. The methodology for teaching was not so much. > I legitimately do not know if I would be OK if it wasn't for the internet. It allowed me to self-learn whenever I could, and allowed me a platform/audience to hone skills. I thank my lucky stars the internet and IRC knew what to do with me. Thanks for sharing, we should definitely get weekend-citizen-beers sometime.