But on a serious note, I agree with this.
I do cooking parties for fishing and hunting parties in the woods. They have all their shit - tents, guns, whatever. I set up my field kitchen. The food sanitation and habits they show are mind blowingly bad. Half of my time is preventing parasites and food poisoning.
Edit - I mixed this up with the apocalypse thread. But I maintain my point.
That isn’t keeping with the spirit of Rand. If you look at the Collective, I doubt any one of them could change a flat tire.
I decided to go weird since apparently I’m applying for a job.
Volcano - black salt, smoked sugar, guajillo chili, coffee, sumac
Pollen - fennel, blackberry powder, mustard, honeysuckle, pink salt
Redwood - cinnamon, green tea, orange peel, sea salt, spruce tips
Garden - coriander, fennel, cherry seeds, apple, hibiscus
Snow - spearmint, ginger, pink peppercorns, rock candy, mace
Hanging Gardens - licorice root, peppermint leaf, sweet fennel, basil, cardamom
Foam - seafoam, royal pollen, sassafras, hops
Vines - rose petals, mustard flowers, pink salt, unripe grapes, wine crystals
River - Watermelon crystals, Bee Pollen, cattail, mineral salts
Egg - Preserved yolk, ancient grains, crickets, thyme, green pepper
Ambrosia - Orange zest, marshmallow root, pineapple sugar, coconut flakes
New World - tomato leaves, chili bola, smoked cranberries, corn pollen, sugarcane
Nordic - salmon scales, lingonberry, dill blossoms, burnt lemon, parsley
Northern Lights - Mint, menthol, black licorice, raspberry salt, honey
Pemmican - Blueberry powder, smoked corn, allspice, bison fat (sold as a dropper)
Boar - acorn, juniper, mushroom powder, brandy extract, thyme
Shrimp - Salt, Szechuan Pepper, Dried Shrimp, Kelp, Bonito Flakes
That looks good but why is sugarcane part of New World when it originates in Oceana and Asia?
I’d teach at community college (assuming I get in haha). Seems like a good gig. Summers off if you want, sabbaticals…
These look amazing!
I’ll admit that I’ve not tasted some of these ingredients:
cattail, sassafras, seafoam, spruce tips, mustard flowers, chili bola
What type of preserved yolk? The slight metalic taste of century egg might work here.
I’ve been playing around with curing egg yolks and am surprised at how strong their flavour is and how well they take up other flavours.
I cured with gochujang in the salt and another with mustard powder in the salt and both took really well
Because of sugarcane plantions. And I want to shove that history down peoples throats.
Literally in this case.
That’s foraged stuff. I was imaging how a spice mix can tell a story.
I’ve met a lot of high ups at construction firms and none of them would’ve had any clue what to do if you put a tool in their hands. I’m not saying none of them do, but they’re usually not where they are because they were good with their hands.
Same with a deckhand owning a fleet of fishing vessels. I think, on average, the idea of a completely inexperienced young person entering a field at the lowest level and rising through the ranks largely ended sometime in the last century.
Again, not saying that’s the case all of the time. But I’d almost always choose the lower value people if any of these scenarios came true.
I see it nearly everyday at my job. Ymmv.
It’s for sure the exception when looking at the size of the pool from which they started. But, the exceptional amongst are, by definition, the exception.
I don’t know, but to a 11th grade male: sex, a little sci-fi, and railroads was right up my alley back then (but it isn’t like I have grown out of any of those.)
Also, we were required to take a semester of “Americanism vs Communism,” where Animal Farm was required reading. The anti-Marxism of Atlas Shrugged and Animal Farm complemented one another.
The down side of Atlas Shrugged was the daunting 1000+ pages and agonizing repetition, especially the 60 page John Gault speech. But Animal Farm was a quick read.
Henry Reardon could easily have done that.
I’d be one of your still tenders.
I just like hanging out in the woods, maybe go shroom hunting for some good eats.
I’m sure we could come up with something better than absinthe with the help of some near by cows for the high value people to enjoy.
We used to make sassafras tea when we were kids. There was a big patch of trees near by, and we’d pick the little saplings, wash, shave down the roots, then steep with tea bags.
Very good. Really nice flavor.
Anyone can do anything when they are fictional. And that’s the problem with Rand as a novelist; her works are not inspired by reality and therefore have no connection to reality. Thomas More’s Utopia was the same, and utopia translates to nowhere, but that was the point.
Aren’t you like 18? Why not just line up and do this now?
I’m actually 21 and I graduated college 3 weeks ago. I like what I am doing right now and would not change it. Ironically, my career interests are similar to that lol.
I’d be applying for Moocher alongside you, hopefully they have a division where they need very soft looking guys to sit on a chair or lean on a rail outside a saloon constantly partially drunk and make tough comments to the rich people walking past.
Other jobs I’d consider would be Layabout, Loafer or Deadbeat
This. I was one for 9 years. Ever hear of green lumber fallacy?
I work in corporate strategy now, which has been my goal. So given this requirement, I’ll be teaching yoga/bjj/Muai Thai on the beach or ocean life guarding.
So she should have been aborted?
IMO, Atlas Shrugged is a sci-fi novel whose theme is comparing the ideologies: Socialism vs Capitalism. Neither ideology has flawless application to reality. Besides OP is asking what profession you would wish to have in a utopian capitalism society as described in Atlas Shrugged. That is obviously fantasy.
Here is my take on Ayn Rand’s picture of her moral purpose as potrayed by Dagny Taggart who connects mentally (knows) and sexually (knows) with the “Producers” Trinity:
