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Lots of people are also bad at their jobs. It's not a moral judgement.

I suppose you could say "well, I'm working on it," or you could change jobs again, or you could tell me I'm speculating from partial data. Or you could consider that whatever training you've gotten on Earth is insufficient to the breadth of the multiverse.

What exactly do you consider your job to be, anyway?

I don’t mean my job here; I mean my real job. But I wasn’t asking you for career counselling. You told me not to take the following comment ‘the wrong way’; I was just curious how you imagined someone taking it the right way looked. When someone tells you not to take something the wrong way up front, it means they assume the balance of probability is that - without a disclaimer - most people would. Or does that also have a different meaning in the multiverse?

I imagine "You're over-estimating your skills" has the potential to upset people regardless of their level of professional investment.

The right way to take it is as an observation that might or might not be accurate or actionable. The wrong way to take it would be "this person is insulting me because they hate me," or perhaps, "how dare you insult me." I feel like you're doing fine so far, for the record.

I also meant your job in your own world. What is it?

Behavioural analysis of murderers based on their crimes to aid in their detection and capture.

...ah.

[Several things fall into place.]

I do keep telling people I’m a profiler, not a therapist.

[Because he thought they might and also they should.]

But apparently people can’t see Psychology as more than one thing.