Rodent Regatta

...that I’ve found comes from two sources. One source is the venerable What Color Is Your Parachute? Continuously improved and updated annually for over thirty years, it remains one of the premier tools for pursuing a well-structured career or job search.

Equally good, though less noted, is Dan Miller’s suite of advice and resources. His two books, 48 Days To the Work You Love and 48 Days To Creative Income, are super guides for discovery.

At any age and at any stage of any career, these books can help you pinpoint where you want to go. To this day, I use them frequently.

Here’s the kind of advice you get from Monster.

>From Dan Miller’s latest newsletter:

Experts predict that by 2006 only 50% of American workers will be ”employees.” The rest will be temps, consultants, contract workers, independent contractors, entrepreneurs, etc.

Related note from The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams – ”In the future, most people’s jobs will involve scrambling around like frightened chipmunks trying to find the next paycheck in an endless string of unrelated short-term jobs. But since ”Frightened Chipmunk” doesn’t look very impressive on a business card, people will call themselves entrepreneurs, consultants, and independent contractors.”

• www.iuniverse.com
• www.Instantpublisher.com
• www.1stbooks.com
• www.parapublishing.com

These are links to some resources recommended by Dan Miller. Dan’s work involves helping people turn ideas into income. One method of generating income involves self-publishing a book. Dan is planning a teleclass to teach this topic. In the meantime, here’s a link to other resources that Dan publishes, and here’s a link that will allow you to sign up for his (FREE) newsletter.

”You’re never going to get the Chinese to agree to the same wage and tax structure that we have in the United States.”

paraphrase of Ben Stein’s remarks
March 6, 2004
Cavuto On Business

Jeffrey Mayer takes us through a scenario in which a salesperson is trying to build a relationship. He advises us to stop wasting time and get to the point. The only thing I might add to what Mayer suggests is a bit of awareness of the behavioral styles of prospects. With an awareness of the personality type you’re dealing with, you can still get to the point, but you’ll do it in a way that is compatible with your prospect.