So who does what for a living

[stephec]

Or Apple

What about Blackberry?

 

[CopperBrompton]

Freelance writer and photographer.

 

[LarryDuff]

Software development.

 

[Archie_tect]

Fleet Manager, 7000 vehicles, car van and truck, frickin hate it

Sell them all on webuyyourcarandripyouoffgoodan'proper.com and then resign that afternoon....

 

[MarkF]

Done all sorts, stacked shelves, doorman, electrician, salesman (AC induction motors), ran 2 companies then lost everything at 40. Whilst deciding what to do (like going bankrupt) I was out cycling and saw some people installing a flat roof covering, it was amazing, a one piece rubber sheet. Long story, cut very short.....I ended up importing the stuff from the USA, a cartel operated in the UK, and fitting it. Then...I had the bright idea of breaking the components down and selling to DIY'ers, I had a 4 year free run whilst everybody else caught up, paid off every penny of debt and paid off my mortgage just before the market became saturated. I was a lucky bugger.

 

[surfdude]

i work with children who are disadvantage and have social difficulties and learning difficulties in an outdoor actives center . most with very changeling behaviour .

 

[ASC1951]

... Then...I had the bright idea of breaking the components down and selling to DIY'ers, I had a 4 year free run whilst everybody else caught up, paid off every penny of debt and paid off my mortgage just before the market became saturated. I was a lucky bugger.

Luck had nothing to do with it. It's the ability to take the bright idea and do something about it, plus no doubt a lot of very hard work. Well done you.

 

[ASC1951]

Conformation bias assumptions?

Yawn.
No, someone getting off their backside.

 

[Archie_tect]

Wish I'd followed up ideas for fire stopping and intumescent collars for wiring and openings in fire doors, ducts and between compartment walls and floors in flats in the early 80s.... would have been very comfortably off now.

 

[GaryA]

Yawn.
No, someone getting off their backside.

Whereas all public sector workers never get off theirs, I assume.

 

[JoeyB]

Whereas all public sector workers never get off theirs, I assume.

You can assume that, I read it is someone having an idea and (hypothetically) getting off their backside to make something happen with said idea...

You know what they say about assumption...

 

[GaryA]

You can assume that, I read it is someone having an idea and (hypothetically) getting off their backside to make something happen with said idea...

You know what they say about assumption...

ASC worships at the high alter of Darwinian capitalism; therefore everyone working in the public sector is a parasitic heretic.

 

[ASC1951]

Whereas all public sector workers never get off theirs, I assume.

Well you assume wrong, young Gary. MarkF was attributing his success to luck, I was just pointing out that turning a good idea into a workable business is much more about the graft of 'turning it into' than having the idea in the first place.
And Adrian was demonstrating that there is nothing which cannot be dumped on by some tedious sociologist's cliché.

 

[ASC1951]

ASC worships at the high alter of Darwinian capitalism; therefore everyone working in the public sector is a parasitic heretic.

Maybe not every last one of them - we do need a public sector, although IMO far smaller than we have. I did do the first ten years of my career in the public sector and saw plenty of people that I wouldn't pay in buttons - in the next 25 I saw more than enough of them in the private sector, but at least with them it wasn't my buttons.

 

[GaryA]

Maybe not every last one of them - we do need a public sector, although IMO far smaller than we have.

I wont argue with that if you dont argue with the idea we need less big business/corporations running the world and more localised small businesses.
Big business; as bad as big banks



Anyway this is cafe and such stuff belongs outahere>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>