Where does your paycheck come from?
- Thread starter Machjo
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You haven't got enough choices for people like me. Name a legal income producing type of source - BTDT. Wot can I say, I liked variety... :lol:
LOL Now you point it out, I'll second that.
I live on what's left over after everyone and everything else is payed from a privately owned and operated small-business enterprise which is *never* going to have more than seven employees (because that's the optimal number to manage, although a receptionist/coffee-girl/lunch-fetcher could make it eight if business is good), so they have to really want to be there.
My niche is PhD's and MSc's with problems to solve, and small owner-operated enterprises who just need things to work.
The only large operations I deal with are DND and associates, because there's something different about them. I think it's because they're more prone to realism and delivery of honest, actual results. You wouldn't believe how many large organizations are being floated through by gel-headed MBAs in their Armani's who don't give a tinker's damn about the damage they might be leaving behind with their idiotic policies and bad practices as long as it looks good on a resume. I can't deal with them because... because... I don't know... I just can't. It feels like neurons short-circuiting in my brain when I try.
Although, to be fair in terms of large organizations... on site technical assistance to mining operations is okay, as can be on site technical assistance to timber extraction (I like mining better). Anything where there is an actual need for technical/computational problems dealt with minus the bullsh!t because I'm terrible at sales. You should see how pathetic I am at pitches where I'm supposed to lie. I can't get past Marketing 101.
Hmm... actually, now that I think about it, pretty much anything as long as I don't have to deal with dreamy eyed MBAs masturbating with rolled-up copies of Forbes.
My rates are calculated exactly according to market, and I will negotiate for higher fees if you want. My edge is that I'm so good I can deliver a guarantee as part of the service without it costing me anything.
I will not service financial institutions with reserves less than 10%, which makes it pretty much nobody these days, doesnt' it! Nice frikkin' economy you cone-heads left people to do business in, didn't you? I'm thinking about designing an online came called "Capitalism" where the players get to learn how it actually works.
There is a difference between "Capitalism" and Free Enterprise.
Free Enterprise is good. Free Enterprise is a means of production. It's where everyone gets to go wild making things better.
Capitalism is a system of ownership, and in its current form is an artifact of a thing 16th century bankers did of printing more banknotes than they actually had gold reserves to cover...
That lead to situations like where national leaders borrowing money to go to war found themselves in a situation of telling their troops the money paid for their fighting was worthless if the king did not pay back the lender.
With that, it became a playground for number players, and that charade is being kept going to the point where our economy could be brought down twice (1927 and last year) because of children with no sense of social nor national responsibility being allowed to play with it.
Who around here knows that during the Middle Ages (aka Dark Ages) there was a moment for a couple-hundred years which has got a bad rap, but where some interesting things happened.
It's called the Feudal Age. It only lasted a couple hundred years around the 1100's, but it left such an impression that for centuries later it was talked about and pretend-copied... to the extent that even into the 20th century the Romanovs of Russia would try to prop themselves up by idealizing themselves as Feudalist leaders.
What happened was, they were using a form of money made of cheep metal that went black if not spent fast. That forced spending, which forced the flow of goods and services, causing a time when we see in their skeletons that for that century or so they got taller, and they had no way to borrow money, so they became neighborly in order to handle crisis.
Feudalism is remembered because it was the eye of the storm of the Dark Ages.
Be prepared for Plutocrats to justifying themselves as Feudalists.
They do not play fair on the field of business. Their system of ownership is choking Free Enterprise, and they are some antiquated form of jerk-off who would be useful subjects in those chambers being developed in the US for combat vets to replay their experiences in order to get over combat fatigue, into which we could put empire dreamers to experience the phenomena of taking over the world by beating out all commercial competition, and then we could even fake it that they died and went to heaven, and we could even play around with the kinds of heavens they get reborn into ...
Whereupon those who wanted to feel the rush of being a plutocratic money-owner and controller of the world gets to wake up to find him/herself in a different society.
What kind of jobs would they do?
My niche is PhD's and MSc's with problems to solve, and small owner-operated enterprises who just need things to work.
The only large operations I deal with are DND and associates, because there's something different about them. I think it's because they're more prone to realism and delivery of honest, actual results. You wouldn't believe how many large organizations are being floated through by gel-headed MBAs in their Armani's who don't give a tinker's damn about the damage they might be leaving behind with their idiotic policies and bad practices as long as it looks good on a resume. I can't deal with them because... because... I don't know... I just can't. It feels like neurons short-circuiting in my brain when I try.
Although, to be fair in terms of large organizations... on site technical assistance to mining operations is okay, as can be on site technical assistance to timber extraction (I like mining better). Anything where there is an actual need for technical/computational problems dealt with minus the bullsh!t because I'm terrible at sales. You should see how pathetic I am at pitches where I'm supposed to lie. I can't get past Marketing 101.
Hmm... actually, now that I think about it, pretty much anything as long as I don't have to deal with dreamy eyed MBAs masturbating with rolled-up copies of Forbes.
My rates are calculated exactly according to market, and I will negotiate for higher fees if you want. My edge is that I'm so good I can deliver a guarantee as part of the service without it costing me anything.
I will not service financial institutions with reserves less than 10%, which makes it pretty much nobody these days, doesnt' it! Nice frikkin' economy you cone-heads left people to do business in, didn't you? I'm thinking about designing an online came called "Capitalism" where the players get to learn how it actually works.
There is a difference between "Capitalism" and Free Enterprise.
Free Enterprise is good. Free Enterprise is a means of production. It's where everyone gets to go wild making things better.
Capitalism is a system of ownership, and in its current form is an artifact of a thing 16th century bankers did of printing more banknotes than they actually had gold reserves to cover...
That lead to situations like where national leaders borrowing money to go to war found themselves in a situation of telling their troops the money paid for their fighting was worthless if the king did not pay back the lender.
With that, it became a playground for number players, and that charade is being kept going to the point where our economy could be brought down twice (1927 and last year) because of children with no sense of social nor national responsibility being allowed to play with it.
Who around here knows that during the Middle Ages (aka Dark Ages) there was a moment for a couple-hundred years which has got a bad rap, but where some interesting things happened.
It's called the Feudal Age. It only lasted a couple hundred years around the 1100's, but it left such an impression that for centuries later it was talked about and pretend-copied... to the extent that even into the 20th century the Romanovs of Russia would try to prop themselves up by idealizing themselves as Feudalist leaders.
What happened was, they were using a form of money made of cheep metal that went black if not spent fast. That forced spending, which forced the flow of goods and services, causing a time when we see in their skeletons that for that century or so they got taller, and they had no way to borrow money, so they became neighborly in order to handle crisis.
Feudalism is remembered because it was the eye of the storm of the Dark Ages.
Be prepared for Plutocrats to justifying themselves as Feudalists.
They do not play fair on the field of business. Their system of ownership is choking Free Enterprise, and they are some antiquated form of jerk-off who would be useful subjects in those chambers being developed in the US for combat vets to replay their experiences in order to get over combat fatigue, into which we could put empire dreamers to experience the phenomena of taking over the world by beating out all commercial competition, and then we could even fake it that they died and went to heaven, and we could even play around with the kinds of heavens they get reborn into ...
Whereupon those who wanted to feel the rush of being a plutocratic money-owner and controller of the world gets to wake up to find him/herself in a different society.
What kind of jobs would they do?
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About 70% from private pension plan and 30% from the government with a bit more tax back with the new income sharing on private pension plans:smile:
For the past 21 years, my paycheque has come from the local film industry. I have the American studios to thank for the biggest portion of it as well as our local government for putting tax incentives in place to keep them here.