More education means less respect? March 2
It seems ever since I’ve gone back to school to finish my degree, I get less respect professionally from people. It’s as though people think to themselves, “Oh, he’s just a student, he must not be competent, or must know less. After all, why would he be a student?”.
My goal in going back to school was to become more competent than I already am in my field, and expand my areas of competency. But somehow being back in school makes people have the opposite perception of me. Now all of a sudden I have people quizzing me on my knowledge, double checking simple work, and generally not trusting my abilities - all things I’d never encountered when I was working full time. It’s particularlly frustrating as it seems it often comes from people of lesser or equal technical ability.
In related news, I ended up withdrawing from the software engineering course I was in, and picking up a computer graphics course instead (CSCI4229). It’s not riveting, but it’s keeping me challenged and entertained.