I knew a guy that had a photographic memory. He worked as a meter reader for the gas company. He would walk up to apartment buildings and look at their meters and go back to the truck and mark them down. Seems like a waste of talent to me. But it was his choice.
That is very strange but maybe a photographic memory doesn’t necessarily relate to a huge intelligence.
I know someone with a photographic memory, and it seems more like a curse than anything.
I remember most of the important things and forget most of the unimportant things, but for my friend, everything is there all the time with no filter.
As an example, I asked him if he had a mutual friend’s roommate’s phone number around by any chance, and he knew it off the top of his head. I asked how he knew it, and he said that it was only three digits off from his other friend’s number. He had dialed this number exactly once months earlier.
I can see how being a meter reader could be a stable, low-key job for someone with that ability.