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.
"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."
You explain this quite well, Lite. I recognize the experience - which happened to me several times over the long, full course of my life.
In one memorable instance I was taken by close friends to the East Coast home of a former US Ambassador to a major foreign country. The introduction was a surprise to me. I hadn't been advised of where we were going or whom we were going to see. The meeting turned out to be a kind of extended interview with members of the ambassador's family present - wife and sons. They were asking me all about my life.
I have travelled quite a lot. At one point they were asking about some obscure islands I'd spent some time on and I could not remember the name of the island group although I knew it perfectly well. I stumbled and that put them off on recruiting me.
Another time, a Big Pharma rep came to my then-current office and tried to recruit me. I don't quite know what happened but everything seemed to turn grey, like heavy overcast. They made me a tempting offer but I immediately refused.
Another time, I was in an investment interview and for some reason broke into an uncontrollable fit of coughing. I could not stop. I had to stumble out. A few minutes later the coughing subsided.
Another time. I was in a business meeting and I began to feel light headed and faint. There were five men there who were trying to get me to invest. I almost passed out. Their "company" turned out to be a nationwide con.
On reflection these events seem to me to be an ongoing subtle extension of the "now moment" - which of course cannot be perfectly instantaneous. In my view "now" is an indefinite spatiotemporal present that is more clear the closer we are considering things to this moment. As we consider farther from the present time and place, looking either forward or backward in time and into greater spatial distance, things become less distinct. But in this way considerable awareness of the future is possible. I've had several clearly precognitive dreams. If there are intense consequences hanging on the direction of our present events we may get intimations of those consequences.
"Time" is a strange concept. Einstein couldn't define it. General Relativity does not formally use the concept of time.