Doh!

Out in the real world of business you will find that most people are not rocket scientists. Most of us are fighting a constant battle with idiocy, our own and our collegues. Myself, I am a signed up Induhvidual. On a good day I achieve quite good competency in my work, but even on those days I might spill coffee on my shirt.

There is an ebb and flow of competency vs idiocy in any large organisation. Over the years the result is not perfect. To quote Alain De Botton: "What is declared obvious and 'natural' rarely is so. Recognition of this should teach us to think that the world is more flexible than it seems, for the established views have frequently emerged not through faultless reasoning but through centuries of intellectual muddle. There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are."

So if you have just finished University don't expect things to work properly in the real world, or even rationally. Some business opportunities are simply about helping people do things better. Look around, you'll be amazed at what you find.

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