I’d be interested if anyone wants to talk about their job/career and how that does or doesn’t mesh w/Objectivism.
I know it sounds horribly school project-social studies report of me but really I haven’t known many Objectivists in person and living as I do in a pretty socialist area I’m interested in knowing a little more about the people I interact with on here.
edited because to many "really"s made me want to smack myself
I’d be interested if anyone wants to talk about their job/career and how that does or doesn’t mesh w/Objectivism.
I’m a software engineer. I work at Cisco doing embedded software on the Catalyst 4500 series of switch/router platforms.
I’m not sure what you mean by “mesh with Objectivism”. Obviously there’s nothing in my career that conflicts with Objectivism; I’m not generally required to act irrationally, to sacrifice my interests, or to initiate force. A more interesting question would be how one’s career is assisted by knowing the principles of Objectivism, or how it illustrates the truth of principles of Objectivism.
I find that Objectivism is directly applicable in two ways. First, the epistemology is 100% relevant both to my research and my teaching. Essentially, I’d say that anyone who does research and doesn’t do so in a scientific framework that is highly informed by Objectivist epistemology is doing bad research; and if you’re not basically teaching Objectivist epistemology (as it applies to “reasoning”), then you aren’t doing your job.
Second, in the Language and Law course, I can also insert numerous Objectivist ethical / political presumptions (about the nature of morality and law, and the proper function of government).