Reducing Payroll Costs Closer to Home
I have been slowly following a series of cost reductions that seem to touch a lot of people I know (yes myself included). We have all heard the stories on the news about automotive workers, home builders, and financial industry types losing jobs and not having anywhere to go. These seem so distant though (despite my brother-in-law being laid off from GM and my sister-in-law, his wife, being laid off from Expedia). Yeah there are some home builders here putting people out of work, there was WaMu, there is Russell. We don’t have much in the way of auto workers around here though. We’ve got a fair amount of airplane and boat makers instead that seem to be less impacted. We clearly aren’t as bad off as other areas hit harder by the declines in … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, Entrepreneurship, Microsoft, Profit, Seattle
Life: Stock Market Games – Day 3
Well even if my own portfolio was completely in the hole today – at least Quentin’s in-game portfolio went up the most!! That’s three days, and all three of us have had our turn earning the most money!! Granted, Quentin was only up $11.16…. but that beats my measely $4 and Gabes $93 loss! Hopefully the fact that Gabe’s still over $10k will keep him encouraged to continue playing…. Perhaps getting into Seattle’s new version of the hotel industry would be more profitable? … Read entire article »
Top Ten Reasons you should not Blog
10. It’s time consuming - Kind of like watching TV, it wastes valuable time. You could be creating real content, spending time with your kids, your wife (no, reading her blog does not count as spending time together), or enjoy spending time off the grid daily instead of between jobs… 9. The blogosphere is already overloaded - Yes that’s right, there are lots of good bloggers out there, in fact at this point my humble technorati ranking is at the bottom of the list along with thousands of others (yes past the 1m rank). So why would you start or continue blogging at this point? The content has already been covered by the press and at least five other bloggers, would your comments on their blogs be sufficient? 8. It’s not journalism … Read entire article »
Filed under: blogging, Josh Maher, Profit
