A friend of mine works at the metservice and helps write the weather for TV1. His colleague writes for TV3 and i’m told this guy sends his rather ‘risky’ scripts to one T Marsh. It seems she accepts his challenge.
Since this has happened the male audience for tv3 weather has gone through the roof!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yxlM3F1Tzgk
It seems nurses don’t get too much recognition or help when it comes to improved work conditions.
This is a new agency for nurses who want to be treated better.
Every time see those ‘Ads’ with rabbits and babies, and the text that promotes ’stuff should be free’ i get irritated passionate.
I have an answer suggestion for those 3 year olds who don’t understand why stuff can’t be free. It’s that because its free, the sites major revenue model is probably banner ads, and banner ads and more banner ads and more banner ads… can cause users to have a bad experience, so its not really free. It’s just the medium of exchange thats changed… on one site you pay with $$$, and on the other you pay with frustration. Even if it is sub-conscious.
Sure, the site in question doesn’t have a plastering of ads, like others i know do. But they are there… and they flash.
Watching the famous 1960s Milgram Experiment is an eye opener.
Gets you thinking how far you’d obey authority before saying “no”.
“The experimenter (V) orders the subject (L) to give what the subject believes are painful electric shocks to another subject (S), who is actually an actor. The subjects believed that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual shocks, but in reality there were no shocks. After the confederate (S) was separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level.”
This is cool. A new service focused on all things baby. If you know anyone having a baby and can’t bare giving them the standard ‘booties’ gift, then maybe a gift from baby angel would suit. They even have a product for dads to get prepared for fatherhood.
Another cool offering is aangel, which helps you clear your mind using your vodafone mobile.
There are some really cool people behind these ventures committed to quality service.
Have a look.
As a self-employed tradesman, have you ever wondered if being out on your own is all worth it?
It’d be worth a read of these books. The E-Myth / The E-Myth Revisited.
In it, the author Gerber, says… “For most business owners, You start working for someone else. Then, you decide you could do better. So, you set up on your own. But, you get caught up in the technical work and forget the dream.”
So, is it all worth it? Being out on your own that is. The Government surely enjoy all the regulatory costs you pass their way for being out on your own.
“….Fatal assumption: If you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does the technical work. The technical work of a business and a business that does technical work are two totally different things. To the technician, the business is not a business but a place to go to work. The carpenter stays a carpenter.“
How’s that? Gerber even uses a carpenter as an example.
So, how to escape the grind? Gerber says “…Pretend that your business will be the prototype for 5,000 more exactly like it. The true product of the business is the business itself - sell the business, not the product. Discipline, standardization and order are the keys. Eliminate discretion.
The best and most exciting part about being out on your own then is surely that you can scale! You can scale the business beyond your team of 3, 5, 10, to whatever the market will allow. So the decision would be to either a) work for wages, and if you’re good, demand higher wages and be paid what you’re worth or b) scale to the point where being out on your own is worth all the hassle compliance.
This obviously has far reaching implications for the trade industry. But, it’d be pretty cool if your business was the one that lasted, because its processes and systems enabled you to develop the business beyond your personal time constraints.
