Super-Capable Class XII OT8 Abilities
Hi T of H
I just read a bunch of your book on line. Neat.
One of the issues with being out and something I haven't heard a lot of people mention, is the ridiculous over-confidence I had about my abilities and worth. Perhaps it was mixed up with some weird machismo thing that I had going, but for years after leaving I had this sense that I was super-able or super-smart. Is that so bad? Yes and no. It's good because having that kind of confidence will put you into some over-your-head experiences that no sane person would leap into and the growth is good. It's bad because it's unreal and being confident only gets you in the door. Once in, you should be good at something that people want. Developing skill sets that only work in hyper-kinetic, totalitarian organizations is only helpful in hyper-kinetic totalitarian organizations. After leaving, I worked as a supervisor in a very union facility. Wow. What a culture shock. I felt like I was from Mars.
There is a happy ending. People tend to like other people, weird or normal, and no matter where I've worked, even though I've been pretty weird, I've developed wonderful relationships and I've been enjoyed. Humans are a pretty tolerant bunch, as long as you aren't trying to sell them something.
Once getting out, the key for me was getting involved with as many people as possible, as frequently as possible, and listening to them, what concerned them. I found out that ScioWorld wasn't even a blip on the radar for nearly everyone. Most folks are concerned with their jobs and their kids and their spouses and their family and their favorite sports teams. After those key interests are discussed, there's not much to talk about. ScioWorld with it's Thursdays at 2 deadlines, OT powers, theta universe vibrations were completely disregarded by everyone I met. I'd bought into an artificial world with artificial values that had made me feel super-capable and one of the top 1% of the top 1%. Now I was spinning through this new strange world of wogdom with concepts that frequently didn't work and methods that frequently pissed people off.
It's been interesting and I'm very glad to be out. It took years to gain perspective and I'm living a wonderful life. Honest. It hasn't taken missing sleep for weeks or months or years on end. I didn't have to do numerous O/W writeups or locationals on my work area. I didn't have to do any whole track auditing. I didn't need to be comm-ev'd or sec-checked or offloaded or assigned conditions or even do conditions. I went to wog school to train for a wog job. I got hired and became experienced and am paid well because I've been doing it for a while. (I also lead a relatively clean life.) If half of the people who came into ScioWorld simply did that--got educated for a trade and did the trade and kept doing the trade--I think it would make for actual progress in most of their lives.
That's all I have time to ramble on about right now. This cartharsis is great.
And well done to you!! Excellent advice!!
to ESMB, Boojuum! 
Look forward to reading more of your stories, and yes, the cartharsis does wonders for opening one's eyes to the beauty of the world so many of us had been secluding ourselves from for too long.......