@carnage4life

I have always thought I would do best as someone who can freely go around a company interviewing workers and performing their jobs for a few weeks at a time to discover structural issues and propose solutions.

I wrote a manual (kind of did a work podcast inside the manual too now that I think about it.) for one of my jobs and it made me think deeply about what a company really needs to succeed. How to construct on-ramps to higher skill jobs in the company that ensure the people coming in know what they are doing. Ways to structure work to avoid creating unlearnable skills that create a deficiency down the line. Ways to identify when a lack of authority or communication is causing significant extra work.

A focus on the untangibles. Money isn't everything. Sometimes you have to see the currencies that are not explicit.

I wish I could find work like that, but it's not so simple... Things like indeed and linkedin don't let you approach a company and tell them you think you can add value. It just doesn't work like that. And even if it did, there are so many fakes out there that it's hard to market oneself as real. It feels like the transition from social selection for work to that of filling out forms and checking boxes has been a grand failure in my opinion.