Running an IT consultancy without a credit card
The only constant in consulting is that there are no constants in consulting — and that’s especially true about the timing of income and expenses. Murphy’s Law dictates that your server’s motherboard will commit electronic hari-kari only after the river of receivables has run dry, so you need to have a plan for smoothing out […]
Six political animals you might encounter at your client’s office
Jacques Mattheij recently published an online manual titled How To Be a Consultant, a freelancer or an independent contractor (hat tip to IT Security blogger Chad Perrin for the link). The Politics page on his site grabbed my attention. I’ve written about the role of the consultant in office politics before, but Jacques approaches it […]
Script for one of my favorite movies – Tombstone
Tombstone is one of my favorite movies of all time. When I was in college I would fall asleep every night watching either Tombstone or Braveheart. I’ve memorized about every line in each movie. Today I was looking for a WAV file of a Tombstone quote and ran across this. A script from Tombstone. Just […]
10 Ways To Survive Office Politics
June 29, 2009 Calvin Sun Friction, deceit, gossip, rivalry, power plays – fine for movies and TV, but potentially disastrous in the workplace. Calvin Sun looks at strategies for steering clear of issues that can unravel company culture and hurt your career. Office politics will never go away. It’s a fact of company life. However, […]
How Obama’s plans will affect us all
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. ——————————————– That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, […]
Family Trip to Cozumel
This weekend, Emily’s family and I are headed to Cozumel for a weeklong family vacation. I’m looking forward to the relaxing vacation. Emily has planned the entire trip, as she likes to do. 😉 She found a nice condo for rent on VRBO.com that is on the northwest side of the island in a complex […]
If George W. Bush had…
A friend of mine sent me this email and I felt obliged to post it. I’m not a big fan of slamming any president, Republican or Democrat. IF I argue about politics, it’s about the issues and agreement or disagreement about the direction a specific politician is going. It is offensive to me when people […]
My wife is a genious!
My wife never ceases to amaze me. This week we had trouble with our dryer. She did a little troubleshooting and figured out that one of 2 breakers was flipped. I didn’t spend much time on it, but I never would have guessed the breaker since the dryer would run. It just wouldn’t get hot. […]
10 Worst Work Habits
This is a good article I feel I should share on my blog because I run into a lot of these annoyances in my new job from various people. Not that I am perfect, because there is at least two of these that I need to be cautious of, but some of my coworkers could […]
Random Quotes
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” – Thomas Jefferson “There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, be the person who makes things happen.”