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Issue 399 -- March 11, 2008
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1. Wish
I could get a break
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2. Jobs
Down -- Opportunities Up!
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Days Featured Businesses
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I believe every one of
us has a unique calling. It’s certainly not something reserved for
a chosen few who end up as pastors, priests, or monks. We all
fulfill that calling by being excellent as we express our talents
and abilities, and our dreams and passions. Anyone can do a job,
but a calling is lived out by a person who has tapped into wisdom
that goes beyond education and intelligence.
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Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t
have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your
subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato
and Aristotle…(or) Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.. (or) the
Second Theory of Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need
a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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on Wednesday morning.
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This last Friday night
Joanne and I had dinner at one of our favorite restaurants. This
restaurant opened last April – in the same location as a previous
failed venture. They need a staff of about 35 people. In the 10
months since they have been open they have hired in excess of 850
people. That means that some worked two weeks, some 30 days, and
some left at their lunch break on the first day of work and never
came back. (There is actually a name for that common phenomenon – it’s
the Burger King in the sky – where someone goes to lunch and simply
does not come back.) The server we request at this restaurant began
there when they opened and has been there ever since. Now this is a
guy who has a full time job at Saturn – but he enjoys the
environment in the restaurant – makes friends with those he serves
and builds relationships with many people like Joanne and me. I was
asking him about all the new staff every time we come in and he
told us a little of the history I’ve related above.
He also told us that at Christmastime he had the privilege of
serving several company and family parties there. One in particular
bears retelling here. A physician brought his staff in for their
annual party. Of course he had made a reservation in advance and
had requested Clay as their server. At the conclusion of the meal
the physician left a generous $300 tip. On his way out after all
details were completed he slipped Clay another $1000 for his
exceptional service during the evening. So here’s a guy in the same
environment as 850 others who came and went – confident that there
was no real opportunity there. Some heard about a friend who made
$100 in one night working at Chili’s. Others grew impatient with
the demands of an unrealistic customer and walked off – not willing
to be treated like that. But in the midst of that – one guy saw his
own unique opportunity and has thrived in the same place.
That reminds me of another business story. A couple of years ago I
talked to a guy after a seminar who had a landscape design and
lawncare business. He complained bitterly about lack of access to
working capital, the stupid customers who didn’t know what they
wanted and then weren’t happy with the final plan, and their
slowness in paying. A couple of weeks later he called me to tell me
he had filed bankruptcy that morning and was closing his business.
That same afternoon I happened to talk to my lawncare guy. He
started his business with a sixth-grade education, bought his first
truck for $600 and has grown his business carefully. He told me how
he had just raised his prices 10% and did not lose even one
customer – and how his customers give him great ideas. One had just
offered to build a warehouse for him in exchange for future
lawncare – and he wanted my advice on maybe having 4 apartments in
the upper floor of that building that he could rent out to his own
workers.
Both of these businessmen were operating right here in Williamson
County – both had the same market conditions, the same customer
pool and the same opportunity. Yet one was going bankrupt and one
was thriving and expanding.
Did you get the sense that opportunity may not be an external
thing? No, opportunity lies squarely between our own two ears. The
apostle Paul told the Galatians: "Let every man prove his
own work." The Living Bible gives this passage a
particularly colorful translation: "Let everyone be sure
that he is doing his very best, for then he will have the personal
satisfaction of work well done and won’t need to compare himself with
someone else." (Gal. 6:3-4).
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USA
Today reports that employers cut jobs for a second month in
February while the unemployment rate fell as more people quit
looking for work in the weakening job market, the government said
Friday in a report that led to further calls of a 2008 recession.
Yes, lots of ironies here. Jobs lost yet hourly wages are up and
unemployment is down. There is no way the government has of
tracking those people who have “quit looking for work.”
I talk to them every day and they are not all discouraged and
sitting on the curb - many of them have discovered new and
innovative ways to create income and have joined the growing ranks
in non-traditional work. They got tired of expecting any “security”
as employees and have moved into successful income generation and
increased “security” as consultants, independent contractors,
contingency workers, temps, electronic immigrants and
entrepreneurs. They also fall under the radar for U. S. Labor
Bureau statistics and thus are categorized as “unemployed and
discouraged.”
No - don’t worry about us. We are out here enjoying the new
opportunities. Keep your measly paychecks and shaky pensions. We
are the new workers - and firmly in control of our time freedom and
unlimited income potential. Thanks for the shove!
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Police detectives in
Franklin County, Washington say a man had his friend shoot him in
the shoulder so he wouldn’t have to go to work. Daniel Kuch
initially told deputies he’d been the victim of a drive-by
shooting. But when his story details didn’t quite add up, he
admitted that he had asked his friend to shoot him so he could
avoid work and a scheduled drug test. Now the friend has been
arrested for investigation of reckless endangerment. And Kuch is
expected to be charged with false reporting.
Somehow that doesn’t seem to be a very brilliant plan. What ever
happened to just pretending to be sick? I know lots of people who
call in when they really just plan to go fishing or need to take
the car in for an oil change. This dude is definitely over the
edge.
So he has the obvious pain of a gunshot wound, medical bills and
charges of false reporting. How do you suppose his employer is
handling this information? I suspect that an end result will be
losing his job anyway.
Moral of the Story: if you hate your job enough to take a
bullet instead of having to show up for work, maybe it’s time to
start a new job search.
Look at the picture of this guy -- then tilt your head slightly to
the right and you'll see what this guy is.
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Two men working in a
factory were talking. "I know how to get some time off,"
said one.
"How are you going to do that?"
"Watch this," he said, and climbed up on a rafter. Just
then the foreman walked by and asked what he was doing up there,
and the man replied. "I'm a light-bulb."
"I think you need some time off," the foreman said, and
the first man walked out of the factory. After a moment, the second
man followed him.
"Where do you think you're going?" the foreman shouted.
"I can't work in the dark," he said.
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