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It's a mutualistic relationship. I get paid to learn and employers get to ingest my nutrient-rich metabolite.

Poorly run companies can be an opportunity to direct development towards whatever I'm curious about, and that's usually beneficial to both parties.




That would be commensalism at best, phoresy perhaps also, but never mind. You're not exactly wrong, but you may be depending on the financial equivalent of a nutrient waste spill: an alga, assuming this bloom is forever.


It's more about reading the room and being proactive with my decades of experience, but I take and enjoyed your point.

I needed to look up phoresy and loved it! Thank you.




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