Won’t get too detailed so I don’t accidentally dox myself or something, but I’ve been considering my life up to this point, and I can’t help but feel I definitely might’ve wound up on the wrong side of history if divine intervention and my own intuition hadn’t gotten in the way.
I know people who work at Neuralink, Facebook, Google, IBM, etc. My college was pretty successful for job placement at big name companies
I’ve been in some of the “financial centers and think tanks” of the world as a student. I was presented with opportunities to engage with their work, especially toward the end of my undergraduate career. Most of these people made me uneasy; at the time, I couldn’t place my finger on why. But I always felt the urge to keep those places at arms distance.
As a gifted kid, I feel incredibly blessed to have gotten out of public school relatively unscathed. I feel incredibly lucky I didn’t join the status quo in college despite the pressure to conform.
This refusal to conform is definitely giving me some roadblocks now that I’m trying to get started in my career, but it does feel like I’ve dodged many bullets on the journey. And I’m glad I’m not part of the hive mind like most of my peers.
Anyone else have the same experience?
Edit to say: thanks to everyone who has commented! Really appreciate knowing others have similar journeys.
Amen, brother- I almost went to med school but realized how much I despised who would be my classmates, went into biomed instead... Luckily didn't follow the herd to a bigger, evil company when my little place of work got bought and shut down. Eyes were being opened at the time by fellow scientists who had worked different places (learned that Monsanto's cafeteria, for example, was all non-gmo). Almost went to California to work on genetics, but family needed me closer, thank God I was wise enough to stay near them.
Close call with P&G, but for some reason my tongue was uncharacteristically tied and twisted at that interview, which was confusing and frustrating because I sounded like an idiot, but later I realized it was the best thing that could have happened. The interviewers were as close to lizard people as you could get, and masonry was rooted deep in that group. They wrote me off and that's a good thing, I don't ever want to be on those lists.
Many many years ago but I still shake my head at how little I knew. The more I learn about the places I thought I wanted to work in, the more I am grateful to God for His hidden hand.
Sounds like God intervened. I think sometimes we get in our own way and push through to do what we want but maybe it's not the path God has in mind. I just learn the hard way sometimes. Then, I get the reminder to listen to God. Things happen for a reason. It is either a good example of how a person " should" behave toward our fellow humans. Sometimes evil gets to be the example of what not to do.
Bryson Gray said something similar in one of his podcasts about how when he was trying to be your typical rapper success always just eluded him, when he became redpilled and MAGA and turned into a Christian rapper things became easier and he grew happier as he figured he had come upon the path that had been laid out for him.