Allocator2008

I really am not trying to start a "fire fight" over Objectivism, but it occurs to me the individualist nature of the prototypical "hacker" is consistent with the values of Objectivism - self-reliance, work for one's own rational self-interest, don't "conform", etc.

(Full disclosure: I am a member of the Objectivist Party - http://www.objectivistparty.org)

Both from a personality standpoint of "individualism" and from a more general logical thinking/epistemological standpoint ("A is A") it seems to me that Objectivist values and beliefs are Hacker values and beliefs, or, at least, a "hacker" is statistically more likely than the average person to gravitate towards objectivism.

Say if somebody had 6+ years of QA experience, primarily on the automation side of it including unit test experience with things like JUnit, what if they wanted to transition into some kind of telecommuting gig? Is this doable? Are there websites specific to finding telecommuting gigs? Say somebody loved testing software, writing scripts for it, and so forth, but just was not crazy about office b.s. like "tps reports" and so forth and wanted to kind of do the work from home on a consultant kind of basis. How might one go about that? Appreciate any thoughts you guys might have.