How do you deal with alienation?
jhancock: "Where are the truly interesting people in life?"everywhere.  My network of friends includes less than 10% that work in IT.  Most are not geeks but are ok with the fact that I am as I accept and don't really define what they are.  I just enjoy their company.I had a friend that worked on the documentary series where they interviewed a group of people each year for, well, I forget how long, but a long time.  I can't remember the series at the moment.  The obvious question I had was "How did you pick the group of people to interview for such a long project?  You need to make sure you pick potentially interesting people, right?"My friend told me that my intuition was not correct.  It turns out it didn't matter, everyone is interesting.