J. Maarten TroostLike many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.
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The idea that highly educated people can just do anything they feel like doing without the necessary skills to back it up is not true. Indeed, there are plenty of highly educated people who have nothing to teach us. You cannot just dive into a job and expect it to work out. A lot of the time, you have to have a lot of experience before you can do something well.
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