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Ms. “el” asked:
Looking to relocate to a city with a high growth rate and great entry-level jobs. Any suggestions?
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Just received word that this was selected “best by voters”.
Two votes among five answers.
Ten meaningless points brings me to 590.
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“Celebrity Soup” asked:
What job should I study to do for the future?
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Just received word that this was selected “best by voters”.
One vote among three answers.
Ten meaningless points brings me to 540.
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OK, now I am “maturing” in my approach. I think Yahoo Answers is “fun”. BUT, no we’re gonna get serious. I’ve created a better “Yahoo Answers” category structure for us.
YahooAnswers – top level
— YahooAnswers – Best for “Best in Show”
— YahooAnswers – Not Best for “non winners”
— YahooAnswers – Pending for pending “judging
— YahooAnswers – Status for aministrivia like this
Why?
(1) Clearly, you might want to see what someone else has thought was a “good answer”.
(2) Even more clearly, you might want to have a good laff at my expense from a bad one. I want to highlight the “bad” ones so I can learn and improve. How can I be a great “coach” if I don’t communicate such that people immediately see the value.
(3) From pending, you might want to go vote for my answers as a “thumbs up” or “best” if they deserve it. (Hint, HINT! hint!!)
(4) From status, you can keep tabs on my little hobby here!
Your thoughts? After all this is PARTIALLY for you. :-)
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QUESTION
Asked by “Bedford”
Can somebody explain Futures Trading to me in the most simple terms?
I am a novice in the Stock Market arena but need to understand how futures work.
ANSWER
Dear “Bedford”:
Well I hope this is a school assignment because “futures” is no place for novices. Futures Trading is nothing more than a prediction of what value something will have in the future. For fun, watch the Eddie Murphy – Dan Akkroyd movie “trading places”. You basically predict as in the movie the future value of Orange Juice and you place one or more bets on it. If you’re right, you make gobs of money. If you’re wrong, you end up like the Duke Brothers … broke. Novice investors are like babies on the interstate. It’ll be disaster and quickly.
You have certain gooferment enforced protections, but don’t depend upon them to keep your money safe. In order to open a futures trading account, you will have to jump thru some hurdles. Your broker can be held liable if you can NOT pay for your losses (You can go to jail! They have to make good.) or if you are deemed “unsuitable” to play in that market (You get an nasty letter; they pay big big bux).
Assuming that you can deposit enough credits with the brokerage, you’ll be admitted to the “big casino”. I say casino advisedly because other than certain specific occasions, you’ll get a better deal at the casino of your choice. The casino will at least buy you dinner when you play.
Futures Trading is appropriate for the average schmo, (that includes me), for example, when you are given options by your employer and you wish to lock in your gains. As your employer in BIGBIZ who shares sell at a penny, I grant you an option to buy 10,000 shares at a dollar each in December. BIGBIZ is “discovered” by Wall Street and the stock zooms over night from a penny to $300. Shazam, you could be rich if it stays there until December. You being a smart fellow say “Hey good enough for me. May I have my profit now?” No, you have to wait until December. So you sell a CALL OPTION giving some one the right to buy your 10,000 shares for $3,000,000. Note, it’s unlikely that you’ll get the full $300 because the buyer is taking a risk. So let’s guess that you can get $1.5M. So the question is “deal or no deal”. The only diff is it is your real money you are playing with. AND, you have taxes to consider. Only a lawyer and an accountant can sacrifice the right number of chickens to read the entrails and divine the tax status of your transaction. AND, guess what the rules will be going forward. My opinion would be that you’d have to pay ordinary income on the whole shebang but what the heck. You’d come out on the other side with $750k. Lest you think that this is fiction. I have friend who had 40$ options on a stock priced at $120 who decide to take the ride and the options were worthless when he could cash out. To a much lesser extent, I’ve paid tuition at that school. Bye bye big bux!
Futures are also useful when you have stock accumulated say in AT&T over decades. And you’re sitting at 80$/share with lots of shares, and your good son, (me), comes to you and says “sell”. You say “never, it’s for widows and orphans”. Argh! I say, “You think it’s going up. Sell a put; requiring someone to buy it at 60 in the future and buy a a set of calls at 80,85,90, whatever.” You say “nah”. So I watch as you ride $80 times gobs of shares to $12 times gobs of shares. Argh!! bye bye big bux.
Futures are great if you a have specific purpose in mind. Here’s a Futures Trading course on the web for free. And, the gooferment site. Stay out of traffic.
Let me know how you make out,
fjohn
SOURCES
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/tafm/
http://www.cftc.gov/
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UPDATE Just notified that this was “Best by Voters. One vote; six answers. Not overwhelming, but I won’t decline the 10 meaningless points.
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QUESTION
Asked by “Genaro G”
What can i say in my inerview as a medicl assistant?
what is a good thing to say in an interview as an MA to get hire
ANSWER
I think it’s always important to express your unique value equation. That is what are you going to do for your new employer to be valuable for them. So things like how much energy, enthusiasm, and effort your going to put in for them. Notice, they won’t care what you want. They care about what they want. Even when I haven’t been the best qualified candidate, I always tried to be the best choice. imho.
SOURCES
(none)
UPDATE
Best Answer – Chosen By Voters
N.B.: Before you go wild with excitement, not only was I one of two to answer the question, (and the other answer was about spelling), but I got the only vote for “best answer”. I’m again ashamed to put that ten points in my total. But not too ashamed!
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QUESTION
Asked by snfbwf
Resume and cover letter for someone who has been out of the workforce.?
ANSWER
Surf over to my “turkey farm” and review some of the key points. Regardless of why you have been out of the workforce, you have a “unique value proposition” to express. You can unlock same value for some one. If you can’t, what are you selling? You have to find out what that value is. Then, you craft a “unique sales proposition” (i.e., how do I get someone to hire me). Then, you build a resume and cover letter to that purpose.
I counsel “turkeys” (i.e., people who have gotten the axe from their employer). I’ve been axed several times. After the first time, it should NOT hurt. And, it certainly shouldn’t be a surprise. Happens to everyone. If it doesn’t then you’re playing your cards to tight to the vest.
Your letter and resume have to tell a story. They have to initiate a conversation. You want them to make the reader pick up the phone and say “how did you do that? can you do it for me?”.
It’s hard work. The hardest you’ll ever do. But, you’ll be motivated because you’re working for yourself.
I’ll close with one story. An “old” turkey (i.e., one who has been out of work for a “long” time) was sent to me for “help”. So, I looked at his resume with a three year hole in it. I naturally inquired, in my blunt cavalier injineer way, “been in jail?”. Mind you this was the resume he was sending out and didn’t understand why no response. He said “no, i was caring for my dying wife”. My jaw dropped to the floor.
He wasn’t telling his story. We fashioned a “job entry” that said something like “Care Giver, Medical Treatment Assistant, and Medical Billing Expert” with three bullet points. Recruiters hate holes in time lines; they suspect you’ve been in jail or worse off having the fun that they are not having. Any way, this turkey had a senior level IT job in an HR department working on their benefits billing systems in less than five weeks.
All I did was get him to tell his story. All you have to do is to tell yours. AND, express what you are going to do for the reader.
Good luck,
fjohn
just a big old fat turkey hisself
Sources
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm
Update
Best Answer – Chosen By Voters
N.B.: Before you go wild with excitement, not only was I one of two to answer the question, but I got the only vote for “best answer”. I’m again ashamed to put that ten points in my total. But not too ashamed!
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Posted by reinkefj
QUESTION
Asked by pisces_dreamer06
What would u do if this were u n why?
basically right now im just turned 19. i work as a dispatcher making about $1,400 a month and will be attending college next semester FULL TIME. BUT this job just came up as a dispatcher for 9-1-1 making $64,000/yr thats about 4,500/mo. should i do that and go to school part time? oh im going to school for nursing but will be doing just my pre-req/general ed next semester.
what should i do and what do you think the pro and cons on it would be? thank you serious answers plz
i quilify for this job 100% and at my current job its a slow independent company where i have all the time in the world to study where being a 9-1-1 dispatcher is probally busy with little down time.
ANSWER
You didn’t say what you were planning to study, what you career aspirations are, and how important grades would be in your employment prospects. Believe it or not these should all bear on you decision.
I worked full time and went to school full time. Your grades might suffer. Mine actually improved because I spent less time goofing off and applied myself more.
If you’re planning to study French Romantic Poetry, Philosophy, or such, then I’m not sure what you will be earning when you graduate. If you’re going for law, medicine, or engineering, then I think you need to focus on the study; not the job. If you’re broke, don’t go into a lot of debt and do the full time job and Gary North’s cheap college suggestions,
I think you need to clarify your expectations and then the answer will be apparent.
Sources
http://www.lowestcostcolleges.com/
UPDATE
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More points!
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QUESTION
Asked by motahar_basam
Manhattan College or CUNY City College?
I want to major in Mechanical Engineering. I don’t know if I should go to Manhattan College or CUNY City College?
someone help, please.
ANSWER
I’m a Jasper EE Class of 68. I can honestly say I have never heard anyone complain that they didn’t get a good education at Manhattan. I don’t know about CUNYCC. I think that the primary determinate of what you will take away from your place of education is you, your attitude, and your willingness to do the “heavy lifting”. I do know that if you graduate from Jasper-land, you will find that there are about 6k of fellow alums who you can network with. If you are specifically interested in chatting up an ME I can probably find a dozen to talk to. Go up to any Manhattan Men’s Basketball game at Draddy Gym and look for a red headed loony cheering on the team, ask for Pete Sweeney (my cousin), and ask him to aim you at some MEs. He’s a CE but as past president of the alumni society, he probably be able to id one right there. I’d say that if you go to MC, you won’t be disappointed.
Sources
http://www.lowestcostcolleges.com/
Update
Best Answer – Chosen By Voters
N.B.: Before you go wild with excitement, not only was I the only one to answer the question, but I got the only vote for “best answer”. I’m ashamed to put that ten points in my total. But not too ashamed, in it goes. Hey a “best” is a “best”. This is the question that got me started “doing” Yahoo Answers. What an ego!
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Asked by “sooshians_1981”
QUESTION
Per dollar how much Yen?
Best Answer – Chosen By Voters
Dear Soosh_,
Use Google for all conversion questions.
Put in “Convert 1 USD to Yen” in the Google search box and it pops back
1 U.S. dollar = 121.285628 Japanese yen
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It’s fish and fishing. Give some one a fish; Teach someone to fish! Now you can convert anything?
Hope this helps.
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QUESTION
AmyB askes:
Why does it seem every new law seems to be taking away our rights and freedoms? Is this just in Maryland?
I just heard on the news the police have a new device that can see in the dark if a seatbelt is being worn and another new device that will ticket if following too close to another vehicle.(It measures the distance.) The police should be stopping violent crimes etc. Not sitting on the side of the road to ticket for a seatbelt. What next. We are already are on camera. The gov’t will know all one day.
ANSWER
Dear Ms. “Amy B”:
No, it’s not just Maryland! It’s the entire world, minus New Hampshire and certain revolutionary areas like Estonia, Poland, Hong Kong, and such.
“The slow loss of freedom was always justified in the name of keeping the people safe.”
When you look at the great genocides in history, you’ll always find that the was a government involved. Government, if it was a virus, would be classified as a “pandemic”. Humans are frail little creatures that survive by being able to think. We huddle together, organize, and prosper via a division of labor. One of the divisions of that labor seems to have been “leader”. Unfortunately, the minute some one becomes the “leader” they begin to feather their own nest.
A paradigm is consultant speak for a way of thinking. How you see things. We’ve all seen the optical illusions that require us to change our thinking to see the other side of the illusion. A meme, like gene is our DNA, is internet jargon for an idea that spreads like a virus. Government is a paradigm or meme that imposes on us by force. Because it has the trappings of legitimacy, humans defer to it either because of its power or because of their thinking.
Government grows itself.
Inexorably, like the blob in the science fiction movie, it “absorbs” things into itself. It uses a variety of excuses. “We’ll keep you safe” delivers us Homeland Security which is the prototype of the German SS where are your papers. “We can do it right!” leads to government garbage collectors. “We can do it fairly for everyone” leads to government education that dumbs down the future voters to stupid followers. It splits and creates more ways to “serve” you. You have 535 legislators, minus Ron Paul, in DC that are as busy as termites legislating away your freedom.
“The final tyranny was the end result of a slow loss of freedom.”
I had the unique opportunity to grow up around a family some of whom survived what they called the Shoah and we called the Holocaust. They described that every small step they could see the loss of freedom. Until, the last step was their being loaded onto the trains. The Father dispatched his children early to relatives. His wife took a “vacation” and never looked back. He walked to Switzerland where his childhood friend took him in and sent him to America as Swiss business lawyer. Otherwise, the USA would have sent him back to Germany. From him, I learned that any loss of freedom anywhere must be opposed vigorously. You can’t wait until they are loading you on a train. Every slight move in the wrong direction must be treated as if it was “being loaded on the train”.
How do we stop the trend?
One can move from Maryland, which like NY, CA, FL, and DC, is firmly locked into the Socialist Statist Big Gooferment paradigm. Liberty minded people are migrating lock, stock, and barrel to New Hampshire under the banner of the Free State Project. There’s no agenda other that “liberty and freedom”. Upon “landing”, the activists are organizing themselves “organically” without “leadership” in the things they see need doing. It’s a fascinating concept. If you don’t have “anchors” in Maryland, I’d urge you to consider it.
If you like me and tied down by family, a job, and “responsibility”, then you can “fight in place”. Like McAulife’s order at the Battle of the Bulge or Stalin’s order at Stalingrad, stop where you are and resist to the last. I like DONWSIZEDC. They are seeking to build a grass roots internet based activist base for small government. If we have to have one (and I’m not so sure we do), then a tiny one would be less oppressive than a big one.
I think you can support Ron Paul, the only true anti-war candidate. And, be vocal. Get a blog. Talk to your family, fiends, and neighbors.
The most effective weapon is laughter. The bozos in power, like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, can’t afford to be laughed at. It makes people not take government seriously. I use as an example, the tax on cell phones and telephone service. So wag started calling it the Spanish American War Tax. That meme caught on and I heard it called that on the Main Stream Media (i.e., I heard it on NBC). Several people told me. (Like I didn’t know that!) Everyone was chuckling over it and starting to get steamed about it. The Congress Critters and the FCC was falling all over each other to get rid of it. When was the last time you heard a tax being repealed? It was the laughter that threatened to undermine their cloak of legitimacy.
So make a joke out of it. Get your FF&N laughing at them!
How about “I hear the State Police has a nighttime seat belt checker, wonder if it can be moded to check all the politicans’ zippers? They seem to need it more than we need our belts checked.”
Make up your own. And, pass them along to me. Here in NuJerzee we have the imperial guvanator that says “seat belts are for serfs”! ;-) Speed limits too.
Let me know how you make out starting your own one-person American Revolution.
fjohn
Sources
http://www.freetalklive.com/
http://www.downsizedc.org/index.shtml
http://www.bigbendgazette.com/blog/Archive/Author/Briggs/_archives/2006/12/18/2582338.html
http://www.issues-views.com/index.php/sect/25000/article/25082
http://www.liberator.net/articles/firstamend.html
http://freestateproject.org/
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Update 2007June17 Just notified awarded a “best by asker”. Basking in success. Resting on laurels. … nuff resting. Time to make another answer. Waz fun while it lasted.
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