Originally Posted by bluemagic
There are many jobs out there from Engineer, Computer Programmer, research scientist ...


Shoot, in many of those fields companies will provide high-EF colleagues whose sole job it is to keep track of the moving parts and mundane details that detract from coding, engineering, or research time. Which is how I have a career.

Originally Posted by bluemagic
On the other hand to be a good teacher/administrator in a regular b&m school requires a lot of organization & good ef skills. Thus the people teaching our kids see organization as a very important skill because they themselves would be lost without it.


This is astute. Really, really useful point.