Apr

30

Charge Heavily For What You Know

April 30, 2008 | Comments Off

Charge Heavily For What You Know
…but give away what you do not know.
Often I am in a situation where I am called to provide advice and a satisfactory outcome to a situation where the Client doesn’t have the time or expertise to complete a task. I happily do the work: in my opinion faster and [...]

Apr

30

Creating a Market For Consultants

April 30, 2008 | Comments Off

I am currently offering services that are in higher demand than the available offer. That is fortunate for me, as you might expect that the law of Offer and Demand will be in my favor. In reality the macroeconomics law helps – but only if you can put it in a macro economy. [...]

Apr

26

Life Settlements

April 26, 2008 | Comments Off

Shawn Cornett spammed me the other day with the idea of “Life Settlements“.  You see, some Spam comments are actually great – and I thank Shawn for it (and for that, the double link back to his website). These comments give me topics to write on my blog.  I like them.
Life Settlements are “financial transaction in which [...]

Apr

25

CDC Says Smoking Hurts Productivity

April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment

“CDC: Smoking hurt productivity.
Early deaths caused by smoking cost the nation about $92 billion in
lost productivity from 1997 to 2001…  Smoking reduces life
expectancy an average of about 14 years by way of lung cancer, heart
disease, and other illness….”  Found in USA Today, Friday 1st of
July 2005.
Statistics are just that… statistics.  But more, and more frequently [...]

Apr

24

Avoid Working for Your Moral Opposite

April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

I once worked for Raytheon – a very big U.S. Defense contractor. They produce anything that goes boom or anything that helps find out where to blow things up. They also have a commercial branch but it exists only to keep them going in between big defense contracts. Yet, at that time many of my [...]

Apr

18

Dead People Can’t Pay Their Loans

April 18, 2008 | 4 Comments

Don’t Buy Debt Life Insurance Unless You Really Need It
Young people are often enticed to take a Life Insurance Policy on their Auto Loans, or even Credit Card Debt by very astute salesguys. The salesperson tells the potential victim that if they die, their estate will not have to pay for the debt. How nice of them!
The reality [...]

Apr

18

I Like Visibility

April 18, 2008 | Comments Off

Browsing through my archives in my other blog I found this article (November 2006). Great thing is that I did took the jump into starting my own consulting practice. Now I feel I have more visibility within large companies than the one I did when I was an employee of a large company.
I Like Visibility
And [...]

Apr

17

NEED is a Four Letter Word

April 17, 2008 | Comments Off

Humans need air, potable tap water, food, and warm shelter. Humans want a TV, designer jeans, a 4,000 sqft. house, an iPod, and a Nissan Pathfinder.
There is nothing wrong in wanting something. It is natural to work hard to acquire or do the things you want. Buy what you want, just don’t fool yourself.
How many [...]

Apr

10

Performance Reports Do Not Matter (much)

April 10, 2008 | Comments Off

I did worked as an employee for around 11 years and every year I got a performance report that was outstanding. I have saved all of them. All of them are almost perfect except for a couple of items where I get 4 instead of 5 – sometimes my manager even told me that although I was [...]

Apr

9

3 Year Education Jump Over The Years??

April 9, 2008 | Comments Off

The good news is that College Education has steadily increased over the years.  So have high school education.  What is surprising to me is that the ammount of people who complete 3 or less years of college has increased more dramatically than any other category.
As with any statistic, this is just a data source.  You [...]