This sounds like a real black-and-white question to describe a very nuanced problem. One shortcoming is that if you use that 1-10 scale to describe your skills in a given area, 1 or 10 are not the building blocks to the most ideal outcomes in all life situations. You may want a certain skill to be a 5 to achieve an optimal outcome.
Take your ability to let your inhibitions go and be the life of the party. If you're a 1, people think you can't hang or be trusted with things, and if you're a 10, it's hard for them to take you seriously (or they feel threatened or upstaged by you).
I'd say someone with a 3 in Java programming and a 8 in networking skills will more often than not financially outperform someone with the scores reversed, even with the job title "Java programmer".
Since we can't always know "a 7 in that skill would've made them offer me a job", nor if that's a one-time disappointment or going to be a recurring one, figuring out where to try to strengthen my skills is more an art than a skill, though I'd like to reach a 10 in that someday.
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This sounds like a real black-and-white question to describe a very nuanced problem. One shortcoming is that if you use that 1-10 scale to describe your skills in a given area, 1 or 10 are not the building blocks to the most ideal outcomes in all life situations. You may want a certain skill to be a 5 to achieve an optimal outcome.
Take your ability to let your inhibitions go and be the life of the party. If you're a 1, people think you can't hang or be trusted with things, and if you're a 10, it's hard for them to take you seriously (or they feel threatened or upstaged by you).
I'd say someone with a 3 in Java programming and a 8 in networking skills will more often than not financially outperform someone with the scores reversed, even with the job title "Java programmer".
Since we can't always know "a 7 in that skill would've made them offer me a job", nor if that's a one-time disappointment or going to be a recurring one, figuring out where to try to strengthen my skills is more an art than a skill, though I'd like to reach a 10 in that someday.