Daniel H. Pink is the author of best-selling hot-topic management books including motivation, whole-brain, right-brain thinking, etc. In this video he quotes some research results obtained by economists at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and U of Chicago about what types of motivation work best for type of work needed. (The Federal Reserve Bank funded the research ... not your typical leftist/socialist bunch.)
Basically, money motivates 'no-brainer' repetitive mechanical work. The best reward for getting cognitive or creative work performed by employees is to remove the threat of lack of money. In an abundance economy, what we need to progress is to provide an environment that allows for creativity. (Autonomy, mastery and purpose are the motivators for cognitive and creative work/success.)
]]>Apart from music/art, I can't think of any idea-centric product or service that is currently being traded on any of the stock exchanges ... is there such a beast? (Apologies if this has already been addressed in the above posts.)
]]>Mine certainly produces a constant surplus & I give stuff away - even in a horrible year like 2012-13. 2013-14 was good & this year looks even better. Anyone want any Garlic?
]]>On the Electric Car, the furthest I drive (Once or twice a month) is around twenty miles, forty miles round trip, well within non-exotic battery tech. And my regular commute is around fifteen to twenty miles, pretty typical for Amurica.
The problem is all the rural Bozos who want to drive their Urban Assault 4WD monster trucks; I need a substantial vehicle that won't turn me into road kill when they run through the stop light. Puts that seven mile bicycle commute right out too (no shoulders on the roads). They would have shotgun racks in the pickup truck window if that was still legal, and most of them probably have concealed carry permits.
I am regularly passed (two lane "Country" road, no shoulders remember) in the no passing zones, old guy moseying along at 50 in the 55 zone....
(Bad habit from my days as an executive chauffeur, you might get there a minute earlier on a fifteen mile trip, but the passenger gets a much smother ride to read his morning paper)
It might be cheaper to get a rental for the 300 mile trip to visit my mother; Round trip air fare is on the order of $800 (No discount carrier service). Certainly more cost effective than a new vehicle. My current vehicle has 110,000 miles on it, and multiple issues shall we say.
]]>I have had a reason to visit an empty house over the last 4 years to make sure it's OK, heat still working, etc... 300 miles door to door. I rent a car. Almost every time. 5 hours of driving as long as you time it to miss the rush hours. Flying door to door would typically be 4 hours. But I'd still have to rent a car when I get there. And be severely limited in what I could bring with me.
Stopping every 90 minutes would be a real bear. But then again if that was the situation it might have been easier to get the various family members on board with DOING SOMETHING. :)
]]>In the USA, many of those "job sites" don't appear to have any real job listings; they're just fronts to harvest detailed demographic information.
The "insurance quote" scheme works much the same way.
]]>And the politicians are going to be tempted to count it as a couple of dozen jobs.
]]>Indeed, and also in the literal sense. A few minutes before coming here I was on another site and saw several job advertisements (for which I imagine someone got a micropayment). However, I live on North America, so knowing there are openings for biochemists in Sheffield or teachers in Leeds don't help me much.
But now I've got the whimsical idea of assigning people employment by some random selection method. Once a year everyone could be given a random job. The ones who turn out to be useless at it can quit or be fired, they roll on the Jobs Table again; others can stay put. While silly, I wonder how much worse it would work than our current scheme. I'd never apply to be a high school history teacher on another continent, but I'd be willing to give it a shot if asked.
]]>Good Grief! Such dismal pessimism. It would help you if you held relevant qualifications and were willing to come and work in the U.K. For example...
" Opportunities are available throughout England, including the greater London area, so if you are looking for short term work in different locations or a single long term contract / permanant role, we would love to hear from you - We can even secure work for you before you arrive!
The demand for overseas teachers (including Newly Qualified Graduates) is high as there are not enough local teachers to meet demand. We therefore have schools throughout the UK looking for qualified teachers in most subject areas and age ranges to start immediately. "
http://www.visionforeducation.co.uk/teaching-jobs-uk
That's a commercial agency but the principle holds good even if you were to investigate the opportunities independently, and that principle is that...we are DESPERATE for qualified teachers in scientific disciplines, especially in mathematics.
Of course it all depends on how much you expect to earn and how that may help you to live within, say, travelling distance of your new employers in, just say, Central London. Bio Chemistry? Certainly doable by foreign origin teachers in the UK. It just depends on how badly you want to work in the UK but, on the face of it, you do have highly desirable qualifications.
Can't have a decent standard of living with good graduate level Scientific /Mathmatics based qualifications in the U.S. of A? Yes? Then its well worth looking into the posibilities of emigration to the U.K.
]]>Which is fine if it's just you. But if you have a family, a partner who also has a job, children who are settled in schools, perhaps elderly parents you need to be within reach of, migrating to a different continent is far from trivial. Thinking of friends who have switched country, most of them seem to have done so at the age before children or parents were an issue.
(One distinct exception: the extended family that all abandoned Alaska on Sarah Palin's election as governer, three generations moving as one. But the youngest was still pre-school.)
And elderly parents, yes. When my mother was ill, my UK sister and I were 'economical with the truth' to my Floridian sister, because there was no way she out there could do anything but worry. Then we had the conversation with the ward sister who asked if we could get that sister over as soon as possible, because Mum was unlikely to last the next 48 hours.
Sister was already due to be coming over a few days later. Only her former colleagues in the airline industry got her onto a transatlantic plane within 24 hours at a price she could manage.
(Mother then rallied and lived for months longer.)
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