Of course there are. I'm far from perfect and fall dramatically short when compared to competent professionals.

However, you're missing the point. I'm talking about people I actually deal with in my life. People, through virtue of the position they hold, that I fully expected to be a cut above the rest of us.

These people have jobs that I personally (and I suspect many others) assumed would demand a level of expertise and dedication that puts them beyond the reach of most ordinary people.

Turns out I was wrong. These positions are teaming with unremarkable folk who seem to have decided that that's what they're going to do and have got there.

Perhaps the real issue is a lack of self-belief on my part, but I don't think so. I'm aware of my limitations, so therefore I'd never seek to become, say, a doctor.

Having dealt with countless inept professionals I can only conclude that they were not deterred by their own shortcomings the way many of us are.

There are countless genius people out there everywhere doing excellent things with their own skill and knowledge.

Nobody denied that. But those are definitely not most people like the post you're replying to is taking about.

I guess you haven't been around a lot of "professionals." Doctors are often shockingly inept at computers.