Just don't try to make living getting paid in Botswanan Pula
Many managers and directors lost their jobs recently 'due to recession'. Are they no longer able to handle stress, have no temperament for it?
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Does this news mean the $2500 rebate is back?
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Just don't try to make living getting paid in Botswanan Pula
Many managers and directors lost their jobs recently 'due to recession'. Are they no longer able to handle stress, have no temperament for it?
Canuck
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No one said it's an easy ride. If it was easy, everyone would do it. Most successful people have had more than a few setbacks. But hard work and perseverance overwhelmingly pays off. Again, you can find exceptions to every rule, but the key ingredient to making money is hard work -- that's it. There's no short cuts unless you inherit money or win the lottery, both of which are out of our control.
Just don't try to make living getting paid in Botswanan Pula
Agreed. I know you say that "tongue-in-cheek" but my comments only apply to Canada/US and similar societies. What is unfortunate, is that the American dream is being eroded away.
Canuck
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It's not an argument, it's a fact that hard work and perseverance overwhelmingly pays off. And I'm not putting any blame on anyone. I'm simply stating a fact. Just because policies fail, and the middle class is being eroded, doesn't mean that hard work no longer pays off. It does mean that the odds are getting more difficult though. At the same time, I would say that there is more opportunity today for someone that wants to work hard than during the vast majority of time in our history, when birthright used to determine your status and there was no way a peasant could climb the economic or social ladders. You need to look at the cup as being half-full rather than half-empty. As Winston Churchill once famously said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." The same thing is often said about capitalism. Yet with all of its flaws, there's still a half-full cup, as far as I am concerned.
Canuck
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Of course, there are always exceptions to every rule. But I don't live my life according to exceptions. That's a defeatist attitude.
Canuck
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Yes, true. The article suggest that the exceptions are getting greater. But there's still a ton of opportunity. In fact, polling on this issue reveals that 63 percent of Americans believe they are living the American dream, according to a recent report, up from 59 percent in 2011.
More Americans also credit determination and hard work as the most important success factors in their financial well-being than in the report's recent history. The Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll reprise the same questions each year to compare sentiment now to sentiment during and after the Great Recession.
"When it comes to getting ahead, more people than ever think it's their own talents and hard work," noted Joseph McMahon, the poll's lead researcher. "There's a belief it's on you as an individual to make it happen."
Once again, it's a glass half-full, half-empty thing.
Canuck
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Article you linked to is referring to a poll which has a margin of error greater than 4 point difference article's premise is based on...
Again, the glass is half-empty to you...
I don't think we have the same meaning of "entrepreneur". Having an employer, means you're an employee, NOT an entrepreneur.
So once employee one cannot take risks for (usually financial) reward?
Of course you can take risk! Just don't expect to stay an employee if you violate the terms of your employment contract. Most companies have rules about what you can do as an employee. Reselling someone else's work as your own is usually considered fraud and I know of no company that would permits it.
SDRick
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According to the San Diego Tribune this morning, California rebate checks should be received by November if the governor signs the bill by September 30..
aesculus
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BTW: Did everyone take the survey that comes with the application approval? It's worth the $2500 just from the effort, especially if you give them your PG&E data they ask for.
Since you rated my reply funny, I felt a clarification is needed.
I am currently holding a full time position as computer systems engineer. I also run a side-business as small business computer expert. My employment contract doesn't forbid me from working a side job, as long as it doesn't conflict with my duties to that company. In my case, I've taken a risk without getting in trouble with my employer, thus I am an employee AND am an entrepreneur as well. The two are NOT mutually exclusive and are done by plenty of other people. You just have to be willing to work very hard AND have a positive attitude.
Seriously, can we cut out the debate on wealth, entitlements, and perservance. Most of us reading this thread don't care about that crap and do not want to read through 4 pages of childish bickering in order to obtain the latest info on the CA rebate.
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