A lot of people think that coders and serious computer geeks are anti-social animals. While I would agree that the majority of them (us?) do not gravitate toward nightclubs or huge parties, we are social beings, even when we work. This occurred to me lately, as I’ve been trying to wrap my head around a lot of new stuff at the cubicle. My current position is the first at which I have been mostly cohort-free, and the inability to ask for input, or another set of eyeballs, from someone doing the same work that I do has become a bit daunting. I am afraid that I am just as useless to Dennis and Stephanie. I will have to find some UGs to join in my spare time. *sigh*
Nice. I think a lot of people confuse introspective intelligence and and discrimination in social outlets as anti-social behavior simply because those are foreign activities to them, or because they have a limited perspective on social. You are incredibly sociable and generous in time and wisdom (plus you listen, always better than people just talking at each other), which is more enjoyable to me than the person who is only incredibly loud and boisterous.