JOBSEARCH: It’s about what you put into it … …

Sunday, September 22, 2013

FROM AN EMAIL

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I wanted advice from you on what the best paying business careers are. Im currently a Finance and Global Business major. I’ tried to speak to the dean as well as the handler for internships but they all told me to enjoy my classes and wait out to see how it goes and maybe i’ll find out what I like. I don’t have that luxury and I don’t want to end up in a typical dead end business job.

I wanted an established and successful business man like yourself to assist me since no one at this time is able too. Do you know of anyone who can help me achieve that goal. Im willing to give up everything and work like a dog for success.

I have a feeling you may say your own business in the only way since thats what you had said at the club meeting. If you can teach how to “play the game” I’d greatly appreciate it.

Much Respect,

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It’s not about the “best paying business careers”; it’s about what is “best” for you.

So, find your own internship. You didn’t say what year you’re in. If you’re a freshman, then why would a business spend time on you? There are many part-time sales jobs that you could try that would tell you if you like sales.

There are no “dead end business jobs”. Just people who accept that as an “end point”.

“I want …” Well, I want to be “thin, young, and handsome”. No one care what YOU want; they are interested in what you can do for them.

I think YOU can achieve YOUR goal. When you have one. Goals have to be “SMART”. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound. Most of the self-help books can help you set your goals. Sounds like what the Dean and the Internship Handler are telling you is that: “You don’t know enough to be good pick for any internship.” I’ll be more blunt — I’m a fat old white guy injineer — you have no clue as to what you can do, want to do, or would love to do.

No, I wouldn’t say “own biz” to you because you don’t have the spark. One of your peers in meeting HAS his own biz, a product, a marketing / manufacturing plan. He’s ready.

What I will say is that you should talk to the folks over in “placement” about taking some of the aptitude tests to figure out where your skills and interests are. I’d urge you visit Ms. Duchone over at the library and have her aim you at some of the clasic “self-help” books — Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill should be and early one. Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. And anything by Wayne Dyer and / or Covey.

Then, you’ll be able to focus on how to craft a great career.

Hope this helps

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RANT: Flashback to 1992

Saturday, September 21, 2013

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2013/09/passing-buck.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Passing the Buck

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Perhaps Mr. Hagel and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus will expand the official inquiry to determine who “passed the buck” on an individual who should have been booted from the reserves for his conduct and denied both a security clearance and employment as a defense contractor. As more is learned about the former Petty Officer, we seem ample opportunities for intervention–opportunities that were continually ignored, for whatever reasons.

Sadly, this isn’t the first time that commanders and supervisors have taken a pass on dealing with a troubled individual, with deadly consequences. And we’re not referring to Fort Hood, either.

Flashback to 1992. A young man from Michigan with a long history of mental illness appeared at an Air Force recruiting office. Apparently, his problems never surfaced during the enlistment process; the individual either lied to the recruiters, or the service ignored potential warning signs. With a solid score on his ASVAB, the individual was allowed to enlist and shipped out for basic training.

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Sorry, but everyone in the chain of command should take a serious hit for this, these, blunders.

But, politicians and bureaucrats don’t care!

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MEMORIES: Life is not a VCR

Saturday, September 21, 2013

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde

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And sometimes the joy of getting what you want is balanced by the pain of losing it 40 years later.

So would it have been better to forego the first to avoid the second?

“Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”

Maybe, but maybe not.

I’ll never know.

Not sure that it would make a difference.

The “Road Less Traveled”?

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GUNS: A classic symptom of a paranoid schizophrenic goes unnoticed?

Friday, September 20, 2013

http://www.capitalisminstitute.org/judge-defends-military/

Gun-free zones don’t work. They disarm the wrong people and turn even military bases into targets for those who want to go on mass killing sprees.

That’s exactly what happened at the Navy Yard shooting as military members were not legally able to carry guns for self-defense.

Former judge Andrew Napolitano says we should change that… Allow the military to finally defend themselves. Agree?

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Thank Bill Clinton for this piece of stupidity.

Guess we learned nothing from Fort Hood.

Guess Gooferment bureaucrats don’t get in trouble for losing files or failure to prosecute.

Guess “hearing voices” (i.e., a classic symptom of a paranoid schizophrenic) doesn’t get your “security clearance” yanked.

Sorry, but it’s not about “guns”; it’s about VD (Victim disarmament)

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RANT: Surprised? Not me!

Thursday, September 19, 2013

FROM WSJ!

 

Pricing Glitch Afflicts Rollout of Online Health Exchanges
Government software can’t reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage, as the launch of health-insurance exchanges nears.

If not resolved by the Oct. 1 launch date, the problems could affect consumers in 36 states where the federal government is running all or part of the exchanges. About 32 million uninsured people live in those states, but only a fraction of them are expected to sign up in the next year.

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INTERESTING: Mistakes?

Thursday, September 19, 2013

http://99u.com/workbook/18843/become-a-connoisseur-of-your-own-mistakes

Become a Connoisseur of Your Own Mistakes

“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them – especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.” — Daniel Dennet via Dan Shipper

by Sean Blanda on Sep 17, 2013 – 7:00am

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I found this interesting because I just finished telling a bunch of smart college kids that there was really no such thing as a “mistake”.

In life, we make “choices” that either work out well or badly. 

That doesn’t make a choice — right or wrong.

And, life doesn’t have a rewind button so you can’t do it over again and see how it works out the next time.

Watch the poker shows on the boob tube. The players figure the odds and make decisions. Some work out; some don’t. Just like “life”.

Humans have to make decisions based on limited information without a real understanding of the probabilities of the outcomes.

Am I crazy?

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INSPIRATIONAL: “Do what you love”

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2013/09/how-to-do-what-you-love/

HOW TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE

Posted by James Altucher

Smile

 

Martin Luther King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 and he’s a buddhist monk and peace activist.

And when he was standing right in front of me tonight I was blown away by what he said.

We went to an opening for an exhibit of his calligraphy.

He looked like a child. He smiled like a child. He talked like a little boy. It was almost funny to look at.

Here’s some things he either said or drew that I learned from.

How to Do What You Love.

He starts his day with tea, he said. And he loves calligraphy. So he puts the tea in the ink and starts his drawing.

Funny, I thought. He combines the things he loves. But then he went further.

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What can I say but he is light years ahead of me on the curve of human experience.

I’d love to meet the Pope, the Dali Lama, and Thich Nhat Han.

Only to listen.

Maybe I’d collect a “pearl”.

If I didn’t, I’d still treasure the experience.

Let me add Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, Reba, and Cher to that list.

But in their case, it’s more about the experience than the wisdom.

#tswift13 #tswift

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GUN: “stupidity with a firearm

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/aaron-alexis-navy-yard-shooter-567432

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Aaron Alexis, Suspect In Washington Navy Yard Shooting, Was Once Arrested For Shooting Bullet Into Neighbor’s Home

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The suspect in today’s deadly shooting at the Washington Navy Yard was once arrested for discharging a firearm into the ceiling of his Texas residence, according to police records.

Aaron Alexis, 34, was arrested in September 2010 after his upstairs neighbor called Fort Worth cops to report that a bullet had been shot into her apartment. The round apparently first traveled through her home’s floor and then the ceiling.

[UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF PIECE: Alexis was also arrested in mid-2004 for shooting out the tires of a car owned by a construction worker who purportedly “mocked him.” Alexis told cops that an anger-fueled “black out” promted the shooting. Alexis’s father told investigators that his son suffered from “anger management problems” that were related to post-traumatic stress disorder, perhaps connected to his involvement in rescue work following the September 11 terror attacks.]

The woman, whose name is not listed in a Fort Worth Police Department report, said that she was “terrified” of Alexis, who had previously confronted her about making too much noise. The woman, who was “visibly shaken up” when questioned by police, said that she believed the shooting was “intentional.”

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I don’t understand. 

He should have been arrested.

If for nothing more than “stupidity with a firearm”.

If convicted, he’d have been barred from possession.

Yet, now we’ll endure more “gun control”.

In realist, what genius decided it was a good idea to prevent the military from packin on a base?

… … <cue the Jeopardy theme> … …

Bill Clinton!

Argh!

[Personally, I’m praying for the victims. Victims of Gooferment stupidity.]

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LIBERTARIAN: Porcupine

Monday, September 16, 2013

http://porcupine-musings.org/about-me/

Why the porcupine? The porcupine bothers no one and no one bothers it. If attacked it will defend itself. As much as an animal can, it embodies the libertarian ideal of a world of liberty where we are free to lead our lives as we see fit as long as we do not impinge on the rights of others to do the same.

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INSPIRATIONAL: What’s?

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Stopping You

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