This has happened to me a couple of times at work now where managers have employed new people to take some of the strain from me. But not considered the skills required for the job - and thought that anyone can do that.
That's a very important and common flip side. When what you do is genuinely hard for most people, but they don't understand it well enough to know that you can do it but that someone who has a degree in something that's kind of like what you and no experience do won't be able to do it at all.
My daughters marvel at how I can take any food available and gourmet the crap out of it🥬🧈🍳🫚🥐
This has happened to me a couple of times at work now where managers have employed new people to take some of the strain from me. But not considered the skills required for the job - and thought that anyone can do that.
That's a very important and common flip side. When what you do is genuinely hard for most people, but they don't understand it well enough to know that you can do it but that someone who has a degree in something that's kind of like what you and no experience do won't be able to do it at all.
As a fellow designer, I forget about this ALL the time. Thank you for the reminder!!