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.
No, even as a kid I questioned everything and had common sense. In college I remember the teacher talking about socialism, although at the time I didn’t realize it or really know what it was, and thought “this dude is retarded”.
Same, rebellious by nature , don't trust anyone, and luckily the one out of 5 kids born with all the common sense. (sad to admit but it's true).
Back in high school I told my friends I thought college was a scam and that I would not be going. They ridiculed me and told me I was a moron who would end up poor and pathetic, boy oh boy did they predict their own future instead of mine lol. I ended up being self employed and successful while they ended up in dept, in bad relationships, 3 had kids too early, and 2 became alcoholics and one lost everything due to drugs, and they all have their beloved "college experience" to thank for it.
I've also been calling out the health insurance scam for many years, may take many more years before most people start to open their eyes on that one.
Big pharma of course is a scam, when your own country outlaws legit alternative treatments and medications to force you into paying for only one overpriced product (ahem... chemo) then yes, they are killing you and draining your bank account in the process insuring your kids inherit nothing.
I could go on....
Reminds me of my college western history professor who probably hated me as I was the one calling it stupid every time some example of socialism came up and he waxed poetic on "what could have been."
I always saw the scam of the ideologies, but I didn’t speak up much as a school kid to avoid being singled out.
I have more street smarts now, but I still have to catch myself most of the time to avoid falling into my default perspective of people not attempting to take advantage of you/be terrible human beings on a regular basis. Still too trusting sometimes.
Yup, never got snookered into joining the dark side.