In a scene in David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network, Armie Hammer’s Winklevoss twins get a meeting with Larry Summers, 27th President of Harvard University and former U.S Treasury Secretary. They complain Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea and Facebook was their brainchild. Summers is less than impressed and tells them to let their imaginations run away with them on a new project. The main thrust of Larry’s dressing down of the two men: Get over it. What stays with you is the line ‘Harvard undergraduates believe that Inventing a job is better than finding a job’. It’s a line delivered in a dry, condescending way but the idea of inventing one’s own job is surely a notion that would get imaginations running freely. The Uninitiated or unemployed are surely disadvantaged due to their lack of steady income and work experience, this is doubtless. However what they do have is a blank canvas for which they can paint their wildest fantasies. Being beholden to a career alters your mindset and suddenly every juncture and turning you chose to follow is dictated to you by what you think you can do. So what would You do? Given the choice what would ...

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