[AnotherGoodName]

Regardless of intelligence you clearly have the one thing that actually matters: Determination and resilience.

Seriously. Study after study has shown that the thing that matters most is resilience. The ability to push forward saying "I AM CAPABLE!".

https://medium.com/@ocarolinestokes/resilience-is-the-underl...

You clearly have that. Keep pushing on.

A counterpoint is that i have friends with PHDs who've never actually got a job post PHD and are generally angry at the world for not giving them what they deserve given their school proven intelligence. They are not determined to be successful despite any setback such as lack of job offers and because of that they simple aren't successful.

So you seem to be doing the right thing. Getting the informatics degree because it's the next best thing to the degree you are determined to do is the right thing. Push forwards. Don't ever for a second think of giving up.

[davidhariri]

Resilience beats talent 100% of the time.

[antiherovelo]

Absolutely. Some of the best engineers I have hired have been of modest talent but had tons of grit. They run circles around their more talented but aimless peers.

And if you have both talent and resilience, you’ve got a proper superpower.

[swayvil]

That's a theme you see in the old Zen cartoons.

It ain't talent or education. It's perseverance.