Is there room for me in the Gulch?
Is there room for me in the gulch? I'm currently unemployed in the "real world." I possess a wide variety of skills (mostly related to computers, technology, mathematics, statistics, programming), but I'm not an entrepreneur like Rearden, or a brilliant engineer like Galt, or super wealthy like Midas Mulligan. Though I may have a touch of Howard Rourke's stubborn individualism (wrong book, I know). I'm more of an Eddie Willers type. Multi-talented polymath, and a hard worker who's willing and able to learn everything, but not really an expert in much. In the outside world I find that I know a lot of things, but not expert enough in any one of them to get that high paying job I know that my talents could match. Like Dagny when she first landed in the Gulch, I want to, of course, pay my way in the valley, and eventually earn a lot doing it, but even though I know where my talents are I'm not sure exactly where or if they'd be of use. Is there room for someone like me who could be a lot of help in many different areas?
Parantheticly, I wonder how the Gulch can be so completely self-sustaining, not requiring any transaction with the outside, with such a limited population. Do they already have a diverse enough pool of talent and resources that they can tell the outside world to pound sand?
Parantheticly, I wonder how the Gulch can be so completely self-sustaining, not requiring any transaction with the outside, with such a limited population. Do they already have a diverse enough pool of talent and resources that they can tell the outside world to pound sand?
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I think our culture puts too much emphasis on innate aptitudes. When we look for team members, we say we look for "talent". Natural talent matters, but effort spent building up skill and effort spent using them are way more important. The book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success got me thinking about this.
When I read AS, I imagined that although the story focuses on business and engineering leaders, the world in that story had people all over wanting to live their dreams, mostly dreams unrelated to being a business leader. When they were diverting those rations of foods and taking away freedoms, I imagined there were millions of untold stories of people struggling to live their own dreams while under the boot of an increasingly oppressive government.
This is the program that John Galt would have enrolled in at The Patrick Henry University if it existed back then.
Greetings! My degree (PhD) is also in Biological Sciences. Worked with chemical engineers most of my career.
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