Environment Matters
Whether or not this article is true is irrelevant, the message is important. If you are talented, special, have a passion, whatever, and your environment isn't cultivating your skills, you need to leave as soon as you are able. That last part is important: As soon as you are ABLE. Don't leave your job unless you're financially stable enough to do so. I've seen this more times than I can count while serving in the military. The military, actually ANY bureaucracy, does not recognize, promote, and often dismisses and goes through great length to get rid of talent and skill. I've got dozens of theories and ideas as to why this is, everything from incompetence to jealousy, but the why doesn't matter, just the fact that it does. Don't take it personal, don't whine, just realize what you have and make a plan so you can cultivate it, grow it, turn it into something you can support yourself with. The inverse also happens a lot, where unskilled, terrible people...