Jun

6

Please Unemploy Me!!! (Unemployment soars to 5.5%)

June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I have been unemployed since early 2007 - and happy about it.  Technically I can’t say I am unemployed: as they define an unemployed person as someone who is looking for a job — and I have stopped doing that, as they just fall into my lap.
That doesn’t say I am good: it just say […]

May

23

My Father Was Right: Bachelors Degree is Not Enough

May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Today I was reading the news that the firms hiring the most recent graduates are Enterprise-Rent-A-Car, Walgreen’s, and Progressive Insurance. It almost matches my father’s pessimistic and proven-inaccurate prediction that by the time I finish college the average college graduate would only find a job at McDonald’s, and the average High School Graduate will find […]

May

23

You Either Produce or you Sell

May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

Over the last few years I have discovered some truth about economics. Whatever you do in life, you have to make sure you are providing difficult to replace value. And the most value happens to be on:

Production – Create a product or perform a service for which money can be charged: more money than it […]

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

I Like Visibility

April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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

10

Performance Reports Do Not Matter (much)

April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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 […]

 

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