Hang in there Chris. You need to keep the goal in mind. Wonder if there is any work here but the Netherlands as a expensive place to live. Allan On Oct 5, 2011 5:13 PM, "Chris Jenkins" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not unless you'd care to invest in a small design and development agency > with no consistent history of profitability. :D > > I'm part of two equity projects right now as well, and we brought in a new > CEO yesterday who advised she'd be fully funding our project. That's a > bright spot I'll be able to hold onto for the next couple of months as that > comes together. In the meantime, the winter's looking a bit cold. > > *C'est la vie, non? *I'm sure with a fine tooth comb and a judgmental > attitude, I could likely point to hundreds of micro-decisions along the way > which have contributed to my current position. It's not without a strong > sense of personal accountability that I rail against the bigger problems in > the system which contribute to this economic environment. Perhaps if I were > more business educated, more vigilant about basing my decisions on bottom > line accounting, I'd be better prepared, but that doesn't change the fact > that the current economic environment is brutally unforgiving. > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think the free lance world is a very difficult one to survive in.. and >> takes a lot more than an average person has.. it is difficult to hang in >> there some times,, I am hoping every thing will work out.. >> is there anything I can do to help? >> Allan >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Chris Jenkins < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I don't think further bleakness is really what I need. >>> >>> We've lost much of our hubris here, and perhaps for the better. Now that >>> I'm out in the freelance world, I find clients paying later and later, new >>> opportunities hotly contested, and many falling off the edge every day. I'm >>> reminded of Floyd's video for ABITW Pt II, where the children simply topple >>> off the edge of the walkway into the meat grinder. It's difficult to >>> maintain minimal optimism under these circumstances, moreso arrogance. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:30 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On the bleak side Chris there's William Blum's 'Killing Hope' - >>>> http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2007/02/125025.pdf - one can find >>>> similar on the British Empire too. Blum wrote of a Holocaust denier >>>> asking if she also denied the US one, and we are all hiding such >>>> skeletons. I suppose another method might be how many hectares of >>>> planet space needed to support an individual in the US lifestyle. >>>> Apart from the hair-shirt stuff I always think of generosity and a lot >>>> of diversity. Your academics are less smug and more Bolshie than ours >>>> and I once thought you thumbed noses at authority better than most. >>>> >>>> On Oct 4, 4:59 pm, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > LOL I may not be able to drive for medical reasons,, ( I still am >>>> > perfectly able to drive, the law asks me not to and the reasons are >>>> valid.. >>>> > and actually after over 3,000,000+ miles of driving.. and far to many >>>> > driving courses I just prefer not to drive .. and this is actually a >>>> great >>>> > excuse.. >>>> > >>>> > Truth is growing up I actually admired the USA for good reason,, but >>>> since >>>> > the beginning of the Reagan era onward the nation as a whole has >>>> > degenerated,, becoming uncaring that is not saying the people but it >>>> lies >>>> > in the leadership.. Just where their values are I do not know. Many >>>> or most >>>> > claim to be christian, but I think we read same but a different book >>>> one >>>> > with changing words depending on who is reading it.. >>>> > >>>> > My grandchildren and children still live there,, I would rather bring >>>> them >>>> > here as it would be a memory for a life time as they would have the >>>> chance >>>> > to see a different way of life. besides I already know what is there, >>>> but >>>> > they do not know what is here. >>>> > >>>> > The economic and political leadership on all levels is sorely >>>> lacking.. not >>>> > only there but here also. >>>> > Allan >>>> > >>>> > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Chris Jenkins < >>>> [email protected]>wrote: >>>> > >>>> > > When I hear that phrase, I'm reminded of McCarthy, determining from >>>> > > congressional committee whether or not someone was properly >>>> American. >>>> > > Apparently, being an artist, musician, philosopher, or wanting to >>>> implement >>>> > > social platforms to help the less fortunate were all considered >>>> such. >>>> > >>>> > > Allan said that he had become un-American due to losing his ability >>>> to >>>> > > drive. I'd like to hear you flesh that out some more, Allan, and >>>> then I'd >>>> > > like to get some feedback from everyone what they think it means to >>>> be >>>> > > American, or UN as the case may be. >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > ( >>>> > ) >>>> > |_D Allan >>>> > >>>> > If your life is not going right, try making a left turn >>>> > >>>> > life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ( >> ) >> |_D Allan >> >> If your life is not going right, try making a left turn >> >> life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. >> >> >> >
