Here's my portfolio: https://github.com/crislin2046/portfolio<p>You can see how arrogant and up myself I am.<p>But I've also clashed with all previous bosses I've had, so clearly, the problem is not them, it's me.<p>What should I do? Give up? Kill myself (kidding, totally. Jerks never self-harm).<p>I don't want to give up who I am, but I am the problem. I thought I'd have made my own successful business by now so I wouldn't have to face the situation of being an unemployable, awful jerk, but here I am.<p>Tell me HN, what do I do?
It depends what you mean by jerk. But no, I probably wouldn't hire someone who is a jerk unless there was no other option and we'd put in place a bunch of controls<p>There are two main problems with people who think they're brilliant jerks.<p>i) They're jerks<p>ii) They're rarely as brilliant as they think they are.<p>People have this weird misconception that their work stands alone, independent of them or anyone else, and so it doesn't matter if they're a jerk so long as the work is good. This is wrong. When you're a jerk <i>you lower the quality of other people's work</i>.<p>For example, a jerk doctor is <i>less safe</i> than a non-jerk doctor. <a href="https://www.civilitysaveslives.com/academic-papers-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.civilitysaveslives.com/academic-papers-1</a> And <a href="https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=civility+patient+safety&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart" rel="nofollow">https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=civility+patient+safe...</a><p>> Tell me HN, what do I do?<p>Work out why you're a jerk; work out why you think it's acceptable to be a jerk; work out how to fix it; then fix it.
Where does your impression of been a jerk come from? You could not find it in your portfolio much less in this (humbly) post.<p>Now about the question, without talking about yourself, we see jerks been hired all the time, and not fired, because:<p>1. they are brilliant and the tradeoff is worth it
2. they are protected by someone<p>the first one is acceptable (as a boss and as a colleague) if it doesn't trespass some limits. The second is always awful.
Given two individuals of identical competence, one a jerk and one not, I contend that the non-jerk is the superior individual. Therefore, by being a jerk, you are being an inferior version of yourself.
The first person I ever fired was a jerk to customers on the phone. He was truly brilliant. We are friends now and he is super successful as a consultant doing mostly data stuff. You will eventually find a place that fits who you are. That might be a cell, but what evs.
When you're too smart, unique, megalomaniac to get a job you probably need to work for yourself.<p>Entrepreneurship is also the better option compared to wage-slavery. Self-employment is somewhere in the middle.<p>Try working for yourself and when you succeed headhunters will flock to you anyway.
clickable Link <a href="https://github.com/crislin2046/portfolio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/crislin2046/portfolio</a>