Goodbye Geekhood, Hello Policy Wonk

I can't quite believe it, but the panel of grand old men gave me the thumbs up.

So I guess this might be it - the end of geekhood. Feel a sense of loss actually that I probably will never write another program, or come up with another algorithm ever again. Time to become a policy wonk, to start using English, instead of Java, to think of people, instead of mathematical structures.

And then there's the issue of aptitude. Do I really have what it takes to do this kind of work, or am I just a great pretender, schmoozing my way around the old men? What about office politics? How am I going to cope with that? At the end of the day, I think I'm just an average guy who liked what he studied in school, and spent a lot of time at it. No spectacular CV, no outstanding leadership, man, I didn't even make it to OCS. Maybe I'll hate policy work and yearn to go back to some good ol' programming once more.

I guess some how I must ingratiated myself with the old folks. Man those chinese prostitutes could sure learn a thing or two from me about winning old men over.

And maybe I should learn a couple of things about being politically correct while I'm at it.