Answer #4
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I’ve always had a career plan but sometimes it doesn’t follow the plan! :) It does, however, generally flow in the right direction. The key part is knowing oneself and where one wants to go. In any regard, I have found this article helpful, even though it is geared for students. It is something I have been doing for the past two years now and I’ll never give it up. Hope this helps!
http://www.quintcareers.com/career_development_journal.html
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FROM AN EMAIL WITH LUDDITE
What you don’t the think that the youth of American understand that they are getting screwed royally by you old folks? Why would you think old folk wouldn’t want more of the same? It’s not like they are going to be around when “Rome” falls!
I’m firmly convinced the only way we avoid a lot of pain and misery is for Ron Paul to guide the country back to the Founder’s original intent.
Otherwise, I think the kids will see the TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) scenarios (i.e., high inflation caused by the world rejecting the American Dollar as it’s reserve currency; Social Security – Medicare – Medicaid – Drug “benefit” breaks the bank in social spending; the graying of America takes a lot of productive people out of the labor force; Oil becomes even more expensive when it’s priced in something other than dollars; the 5T$ in China come home to roost; and don’t forget about the National Debt.
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http://www.unrlibertarians.com/2007/11/ron-paul-sweeping-northern-nevada.html
Monday, November 19, 2007
Chalking the US Constitution
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Members of the Ron Paul Pack and the College Libertarians chalked the entire constitution in front of Lawlor in preparation for Ron Paul!
I admit, I had my doubts, but it turned out great, and we got many thousands of words out on the concrete! Check out the photos!
Pictures taken by: Kelly
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Wow, you have to see the pictures. Some people put in a ton of work!
Impressive!
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http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/police-to-deplo.html
Police to Deploy Spy Drones in Texas
By Sharon Weinberger
November 23, 2007 | 10:41:58 AM
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An attempt by police in Texas to hold a secret test of spy drones was foiled by a local TV station, which tracked the unmanned aerial vehicles, forcing law enforcement officials to disclose some of their plans.
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Montalvo told reporters the unmanned aircraft would be used for “mobility” or traffic issues, evacuations during storms, homeland security, search and rescue, and also “tactical.” She admitted that could include covert police actions and she said she was not ruling out someday using the drones for writing traffic tickets.
A large number of the officers at the test site were assigned to the department’s ticket-writing Radar Task Force. Capt. Tom Runyan insisted they were only there to provide “site security,” even though KPRC cameras spotted those officers heavily participating in the test flight.
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Here’s we have the next wave of “revenue generation”! What a bunch of “barbara streisand”.
When does the sheeple say “enough”?
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Answer #3
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I think the answer lies in getting the right advice. Typically the gap between outlining a goal and achievement of said goal is tantamount to actualisation. The answer, in regards to your career – I would suggest – lies in finding a ‘good’ recruitment consultant and picking their brain. – ‘I am doing ‘x’ but want to be a Murex/Fidessa Programme Manager – How do I go about this?’ A good consultant will be able to offer the advice you need and put the plan into action. – And its ‘free’, how good is that?
Hope that helps.
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http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=9758&cn=353
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Journaling can provide a good outlet for times when you need to vent but don’t have anyone to vent to. Journaling couldn’t be simpler. You simply write about your experience and emotion. Whatever you might say to a confidant, you can simply write down in a journal entry. In effect, the journal itself becomes your confidant.
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Maybe that’s what I’m doing here?
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FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH A FELLOW TURKEY
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I think I am networked out…you just sent me an invitation to Naymz yesterday which I accepted. How many of these sites can one use ? I know I have signed up for ecademy (sp ?), friendster, Linkedin, Ryze, and probably others. The only networking site I really use on a regular basis is Linkedin.
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I agree, but personally I’m afraid that by not being on one that I’ll miss something.
I didn’t do ecademy because it’s too European flavored. And, they want money. Ryze was taken over by MLMers imho. I use LinkedIn on regular basis too.
Do you still have two ids?
I agree that f2f is better, but what’s a poor fat old introvert to do. I like the “social networking” genre because as Lucht preaches “the web of weak links” and the fact that they “social networks” are really always working.
I won’t condemn all of “social networking” as an activity trap just quite yet. Only because I don’t have a higher value replacement.
Doing networking a la Lucht style (f2f as you mention) is just too expensive in attention, time, and money. Sure f2f is better than socnet, but you can do a lot more socnet than f2f.
Are they equally productive?
I believe not.
But, I don’t know what the Expected Value comparison would look like.
If one could do 100 high quality f2fs, what would one expect? If one does 1000 high quality socnet contacts, what would one expect? Clearly, I can’t do 100 f2fs. But, I can juggle a 1000 socnets. The payoff is still uncertain.
As always, YMMV,
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The problem as I see it is that you have no way of estimating the roi. Networking by f2f or by socnet is completely different. I’m not even sure if it is fair to compare. Clearly, f2f has a higher cost. Clearly, socnet is “easier”; at least easier to a fat old ITSJ. As an old injineer, you’d have to design a very careful experiment before making conclusions. It’s a social science nightmare. So many variables, so few constants. Even one’s experiment could be contaminated by a worsening or even an improving economy. Argh! It makes my head hurt with just the thought.
IMHO, socnet is a different kind of “networking”. Potentially a precursor or auxiliary to “f2f networking”. It certainly does NOT map to Lucht’s structured networking paradigm “make appoint to sked 15 minutes, meet (five on hello / goodbye, five on what you want, five on what the target sees), extract two names, send ty, repeat until you find a job”.
I THINK imho “networking” is the process of creating (weak) ties with people, who when they hear of something that you’d be interested in, will take the time to contact you. The usual motivation is like “mutually assured destruction” (i.e., I’ll look for you and you look for me). Although, other motivations might be: common ties (i.e., same school), mutual friends (i.e., a common friend), shared interests (i.e., golf), or even a grandfalloon (i.e., a mythical common bond like vets about military service). In f2f, the motivation to cooperate is high because both halves have made an investment in the relationship. In socnet, the motivation is unclear because the focus in on the communication vehicle.
Have to think about this some more.
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http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/11/21/the_greatest_generation
The Greatest Generation
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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The “greatest generation” is a term sometimes used in reference to those Americans who were raised during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, worked in farms and factories and sacrificed for the war effort while maintaining the home front. Following the war, these Americans, many of whom were born between the turn of the century and 1930, went on to produce a level of wealth and prosperity heretofore unknown to mankind.
There’s no question that this generation made an important contribution. Let’s look at what else that generation contributed that might qualify them for the generation that laid the foundation for the greatest betrayal of our nation’s core founding principle: limited federal government exercising only constitutionally enumerated powers.
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Williams correctly removes the “greatest generation” label from the “Depression / WW2” people. They really screwed up by letting the gooferment, who created the Great Depression with the Smoot Hawley Tariff, “save” them by the removal of the gold standard buried among all the “recovery programs”. That single event allowed the gooferment to grow exponentially, run up a debt, and effectively tax every dollar holder by inflation. At least. the French Kings had to shave the French Franc to pay for their excesses.
Short of a Ron Paul presidential victory, I don’t see how we get our liberty back. The American Republic ended with the War of Northern Aggression. It’s been downhill ever since.
One wonders what will touch off the the Third American Revolution?
And, just how bad it will be?
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071120_ron_paul_does_the_math
Cheering for Ron Paul
Posted on Nov 20, 2007
By Robert Scheer
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That money could have paid for a lot of things we could have used here at home. As Rep. Paul points out, for what the Iraq war costs, we could present each family of four a check for $46,000—which exceeds the $43,000 median household income in his Texas district. He asks: “What about the impact of those costs on education, the very thing that so often helps to increase earnings? Forty-six thousand dollars would cover 90 percent of the tuition costs to attend a four-year public university in Texas for both children in that family of four. But, instead of sending kids to college, too often we’re sending them to Iraq, where the best news in a long time is they [the insurgents] aren’t killing our men and women as fast as they were last month.”
How damning that it takes a libertarian Republican to remind the leading Democratic candidates of the opportunity costs of a war that most Democrats in Congress voted for. But they don’t need to take Paul’s word for it; last week, the majority staff of the Joint Economic Committee in Congress came up with similarly startling estimates of the long-term costs of this war.
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It is interesting when one hears costs put into comprehensible terms. I can imagine how that mythical family of four feels when they hear that they could have invested in their children or paid for the “emperor’s new clothes” (i.e., we can have ‘peace in our time’, ‘make the world safe for democracy’, ‘turn back the yellow hordes’, or what ever the phrase is for the next war). Sigh!
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