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Smug dropout is smug.

I was aiming, albeit rather belatedly, for kinship, rather than smugness.

But being socially ineffective = sometimes missing the mark, when it comes to conveying feelings, despite best efforts or intentions.

I'll take your read under advisement. :)

I got your meaning from first reading. There's no smugness because your position isn't self-righteously or even voluntarily chosen. You've been thrust into a position on the side of the river where the flow is slower and therefore less shit drifts in, purely by good/bad luck.

I like my IT shit, but my major life joys come from my kids and sports and writing / thinking. If FAANG went poof tomorrow (and maybe be if I was a praying person, I'd pray for this daily) my life joys would be almost entirely unaffected.

It's a good perspective.

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