Consulting firms pride themselves on their people “assets.” Their recruiting brochures (and I would imagine, their marketing literature as well) are full of words describing their employees more like demi-gods than real people: “the best and the brightest”, “those with the intelligence and the passion to make a difference”, “our people are our brand”, etc. Knowing that I’ve been hired by one of these firms, it almost makes me feel like I really can do anything I set my mind to. I can almost feel like Leonardo DiCaprio’s character on Titanic: “I’m the King of the WOOORLDD!”
And yet, here I am. Sitting. Watching a video online. Instructing me in the mystical secrets of the apparently very difficult “Save As…” command in Microsoft Excel. Judging from the video, it would appear that my coding math models in MATLAB is orders of magnitude simpler than learning how to enter formulas and resize cells.
Anybody else notice a strange discrepancy here?