Soft skills in general are vastly under appreciated. It’s the biggest difference I see between those who excel and those who spend their whole career struggling

Soft skills in general are vastly under appreciated. It’s the biggest difference I see between those who excel and those who spend their whole career struggling for even a modest promotion. I will say, it was CIS classes in college which got me to expand on my writing, not English classes. In high school, even with English class every year, I tried to do the bare minimum. It wasn’t until the papers were required to be 25-30 pages long that I was forced to really flesh things out into a narrative, rather that what amounted to a bulleted list shoved into a paragraph. This was a doubled edged sword, as I now find it much more difficult to be concise in my writing, so that takes a focused effort. There is also a lot to be said for finding the intersection between technology and X. Having a well rounded education can provide more opportunities for people to discover where these intersections can foster new growth or innovation. I often wish I went into a non-computer field, so I could have applied technology to the job, rather than technology feeling like the job itself.