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Chance to snap up landmark Swansea building
IMAGINATIVE developers across the UK and beyond now have the chance to snap up one of Swansea's most recognisable buildings.
Swansea Council is marketing The Observatory on the seafront by inviting interested parties to submit their proposals and financial offers for the building by the end of March.
The five-storey Observatory was built in 1988 and includes a domed roof and an access tower that houses a spiral staircase with balconies linking the structures at each upper level. The ground floor has its own separate entrance which means it could potentially be occupied on a standalone basis.
The building also includes a stained-glass roof by internationally-renowned artist David Pearl and panels of carved poetry by leading Welsh poet Nigel Jenkins.
It's located on the beachfront within a stone's throw of the SA1 development, Swansea city centre and boat-mooring opportunities at Swansea Marina.
The Observatory building has been vacant for about two years.
Swansea Council is now marketing the building in the national and local media as well as in Grand Designs – the official magazine of the hit Channel 4 programme presented by Kevin McCloud.
Cllr Gareth Sullivan, Swansea Council's Cabinet Member for Economic Regeneration and Planning, said: "We'd like to see a mixed-use development that incorporates features of the existing Observatory building but we'd invite any developers with other imaginative design ideas to get in touch because we don't want to preclude innovative proposals.
"This building presents an exciting opportunity at a prestigious waterfront location within touching distance of the city centre that offers panoramic views of Swansea Bay.
"Bringing the Observatory back into use would add even more vitality to the promenade."
The news comes in the wake of the completion of an upgrade on the promenade between the Observatory building and the Civic Centre that included new lighting, handrails, benches and bins.
Work will also soon start on a Watersports Centre of Excellence funded by the Welsh Government just off the promenade opposite St Helen's that will feature changing rooms, showers, toilets, a multi-functional space and an area to store specialist watersports equipment.
Cllr Sullivan said: "We're doing all we can to make the most of our stunning coastline and develop closer links between the waterfront and the city centre. The Observatory building is one piece of a jigsaw that we hope will help Swansea maximise its enormous potential."
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Peabody High School Class of 1963: The best and the smartest
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The class of 1963 has some of the smartest and successful students that ever walked the classrooms and hallways of the mighty Peabody High School. This great class has plans in motion to celebrate our 50th year High School Bliss and Reunion soon, hopefully somewhere in this great city of Petersburg, Virginia.
Here's a shout out to Rita Newsome Avery, Carolyn Brown, Ann Friend, Ora Green Bonner, Alice Bland, Gloria Branch, Lillian Curley, Frances Goode, Nadine H. Baskerville, Josephine Redd, Nancy Thompson, Mildred Harville, Willie Mae Barber, Yvonne Taylor Coleman (My Buddy), Sandra Greene, Ruth Jefferson, Jacquelin Johnson and Gale Roberts.
How nice it would be if the class of 1963 invited Mrs. Hollins, Mrs. Barnes and Mrs. M.M. Scott to the bliss for all of the hard work that was put in at Peabody High helping this great class of talented students with their wonderful careers in government, the private sector and education.
We have at least one doctor, one judge, one music producer and one professional singer.
Here's another shout out to Dr. Willis Madden, Winston Bethal, George Foreman, John Stackhouse, Gilbert Griffin, Walter Brown, Cleveland "Snookie" Johnson, James Smith, Deacon Samuel Putney, Steve Brown, Carroll Avery, Richard "Mayor" Stewart, Bennie Parham, Frank "Bennie" Raines, Bobby Archer, William Viverette and the Late Willie Vaughan and Calvert Simmons.
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Apple's cash; new 10.5.3 seed; 3G iPhone photos; Boston store sizeApple's cash reserve is rapidly approaching that of Microsoft's. Meanwhile, Apple has seeded yet another build of its impending Mac OS X 10.5.3 update; some fresh photos of a purported 3G iPhone have appeared on an overseas discussion forum; and Apple's latest flagship retail store to open in Boston may be the company's largest yet.
Apple's cash may soon rival Microsoft
While Microsoft has long held the title as the technology firm squatting the largest mound of cash, Apple may soon give the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant a run for its money, literally.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop points out that Microsoft has reduced its cash balance from more than $64 billion less than four years ago to $26.3 billion this year through large stock buybacks, dividends and acquisitions.
Meanwhile, Apple over the same period has seen its spare coin surge from $5.5 billion to $19.5 billion as a result of its industry-leading growth in the personal computer market and its dominance in the digital media player sector.
"Keeping too much cash on the balance sheet can raise eyebrows among investors, who often want companies to reinvest the cash in the business or to return the money to shareholders through dividends or stock buybacks," Bishop noted. "Investors are now watching Apple's growing cash balance in much the same way they did Microsoft's a few years ago."
Cisco still sits between Microsoft and Apple with $22.7 billion in cash. Google is a somewhat distant fourth with $12.1 billion.
Mac OS X 10.5.3 build 9D27 Seed Note
Continuing to plug away at the next maintenance and security update to its Leopard operating system, Apple on Monday is reported to have seeded Mac OS X 10.5.3 build 9D27 to its vast developer community.
According to people familiar with the distribution, the build was accompanied by documentation listing no know issues with the software update and asking that developers continue to focus their evaluation efforts on a previously stated list of 12 core system components.
As was the case with recent builds, build 9D27 saw the addition of nearly a dozen fresh code corrections, bringing the total number of bug fixes baked into the impending Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update to nearly 215.
Some of the latest tweaks target server certificates, printer plugins, Directory Server, and Apple File Server.
More would-be 3G iPhone photos
More photos purported to be that of Apple's upcoming 3G iPhone have surfaced on the Chinese-language discussion forums of WeiPhone.com. The images depict an iPhone clad in a white plastic shell with added sensors and modified microphone and speaker grills, matching a recent description of the next-generation device recently posted over at iLongue.
Although the images are almost certainly inauthentic mockups or third-party casings, they're being republished for the sake of discussion.
Apple's Boston flagship to be largest yet?
Finally, Gizmodo is reporting that Apple's soon-to-open flagship on Boylston Street in Boston may emerge as the company's largest yet by square footage.
"According to a store employee, it's a good thing Boylston Street is so big: Apple estimates 1,500-2000 customers/hour will visit more than 10 times the 160/hour that the average store gets," the gadget site reported. "It's something else inferiority-complex ravaged Bostonians can hold over New York."
On Topic: Apple Retail
- Tim Cook unlocks the doors at Apple's Palo Alto store to kick off iPhone 6 sales
- iPhone 6 launch day scenes from Apple Stores around the world
- Apple wins patent for Steve Jobs-designed Fifth Ave glass cube
- Apple's largest store yet will be its first in the Middle East - report
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Sept. 24 marks the 82nd birthday of John W. Young, the only astronaut to fly aboard the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle spacecraft. In this 1965 photo, Young is going through last-minute checks before the mission's March 23 launch.And earth from space, freaks me out.
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Absolutely amazing, real, raw, fragile. Why does everything come to an end, all the good things, all the bad. Strings around your neck, and we cry and then we laugh like we are mental. It's just not something on TV, it's a fucking great story!This is England 88.
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On street parking is very limited due to Croke Park being situated in a residential area. There will be strict enforcement of all illegal parking in the area by Gardai and Dublin City Parking Services.
Patrons are strongly advised to consider parking in one of the park and ride facilities on the outer limits of Dublin City and utilise the many commuter trains and tram facilities to travel to Croke Park.
The National Ploughing Championships will take place at Ratheniska, Stradbally, Co. Laois from 23rd to the 25th September 2014.
There are six main access routes for Ploughing Traffic all of which are clearly signposted with "PLOUGHING" signage.
The Garda Commissioner has designated 23rd September - 30th September 2014 as Community Safety Week the priority for this week will be primarily focussed on reducing and preventing burglary.
A large amount of jewellery was taken from a dwelling on the Northside of Dublin on the 30th August 2014.
Among the Items stolen were necklaces, watches, earrings and bracelets.
If you have any information regarding this stolen property contact Ballymun Garda Station on 01 666 4400
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The 4th September 2014 is the 15th Anniversary of the brutal murder of 17 year old Raonaid Murray. The Gardai remain fully committed to the investigation into Raonaid's murder. The solving of this murder is of the utmost priority for An Garda Síochána and any information received will be treated with absolute confidentiality.
The Garda investigation team wish to thank the public for the invaluable assistance provided in this ongoing investigation. Gardai would like to remind the public that there is a Reward available from Crimestoppers -Freephone 1800 25 00 25 for critical information received.
On March 31st 2014, the Minister for Justice and Equality implemented an administrative filter to be applied to all Garda Vetting applications. The administrative filter is a new procedure being applied by the Garda Central Vetting Unit to allow certain minor convictions over 7 years old to be removed from disclosures.
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Gardaí are hoping to reunite them with their owners. Images and details of each item are on the attached Press Release.
The overall value of the paintings is in excess of €100,000, with the six identified ones valued at approx €35,000.
The paintings include works by Robert Ballagh, William Ashford, Brian Ballord, and Graham Knuttell.
Anyone who has information in regards to the providence of property/artworks to contact Pearse Street Gardaí at 666 9000, to arrange a viewing.
Gardaí in Anglesea Street are seeking owners for the following property in their possession. The property is varied and includes bikes, cameras, purses, phones etc.
If you are the owner of any of this property, please contact Anglesea Street Station on 021 4548572 to arrange to view the items between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
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When the woman was pulled over by police, they discovered drugs inside her vehicle.
But officers also discovered something else — she was an undocumented immigrant.
The officer then allegedly told the woman she had 72 hours to become a confidential informant or he would report her to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the woman later told Tony Yapias, director of Proyecto Latino de Utah.
Yapias said he has heard stories of officers using immigration status as a "means to extort information" and force people to work to become confidential informants.
"I don't believe using someone's legal immigration status should be used to get information," he said. "Of course, it makes [those people] more vulnerable."
After West Valley City leaders revealed recently that an internal investigation showed some members of its now-disbanded Neighborhood Narcotics Unit improperly used confidential informants, some of whom may have been undocumented immigrants, The Salt Lake Tribune filed open-records requests with the state's four largest police departments for policies on using confidential informants. The newspaper also filed a federal Freedom of Information request for the DEA's policy, although the agency has not yet responded.
In large part, the Utah police departments' policies are similar, but they differ on the use of undocumented immigrants.
On one end of the spectrum is Salt Lake City, which prohibits even asking individuals whether they're in the country legally. On the other end, Unified Police policy prohibits use of undocumented immigrants as confidential informants. West Valley City falls in the middle — use of undocumented immigrants as informants is decided on a case-by-case basis, but any informant needs to be first cleared with immigration and citizenship services . The Department of Public Safety has no written policy. Officials with that agency said they don't typically use confidential informants.
Ultimately, it's up to individual police departments to set policy on using confidential informants, said Sim Gill, Salt Lake County district attorney. But his office must approve offers of reduced charges, leniency or other issues.
Using undocumented immigrants as informants creates an issue of veracity, Gill said.
"He's already violating the law," he said of such immigrants. "I'm going to always be looking at every witness who is testifying — how can their veracity be compromised? Are they doing this because this is the truth or because they're compromised?"
He said his staff must ensure officers aren't coercing informants. Prosecutors don't want a witness to come forward in the middle of a trial and drop a bombshell, saying they were coerced, mistreated or promised something in return for their cooperation.
Unified Police, which serves unincorporated Salt Lake County and a number of cities in the valley, has a long-standing written policy prohibiting the use of undocumented immigrants. That policy can only be overturned by a supervisor in the rare instance there is no other option to solve a crime, said Unified Lt. Justin Hoyal.
"We generally don't use illegal or undocumented immigrants because of their status of being illegal," Hoyal said. "[Plus] we don't want to put them in a position where they feel obligated or compelled to work for us because of their status."
He said the policy avoids creating additional issues.
"We don't want to have illegal activities that are involved in our investigation," Hoyal said. "That could raise some questions later down the road. Just the use of someone who is illegal and undocumented, we're not going to use [them] so as not to add illegalities to the case."
Lt. Troy Burnett, commander of the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force, said since 2009 about 88 percent of all his area's methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana has been seized from undocumented immigrants — typically working in Utah for Mexican drug cartels. However, those undocumented immigrants make up less than 1 percent of total arrests.
"That tells you there is a minority of people controlling the majority of drugs that come into Weber and Morgan counties," Burnett said.
He said using undocumented immigrants as confidential informants is done on a case-by-case basis, but he wouldn't prohibit it.
"Why would we try to limit ourselves?" he asked. "Especially with a section of society that is responsible for bringing a majority of that into our community."
He noted that his unit is responsible for establishing the credibility of confidential informants so they have to ask if someone is in the country legally.
In West Valley City, officers are allowed to analyze the effectiveness of undocumented immigrants on a case-by-case basis.
"It's based on the totality of the circumstances," said Deputy Chief Mike Powell. "We always need to know who we're dealing with. We're not willing to work with someone we can't positively ID or have the means in which we can positively identify them."
Salt Lake City's policy doesn't forbid the use of undocumented immigrants, but officers may not inquire about anyone's immigration status.
"It's the wrong thing to do for local law enforcement," said Chief Chris Burbank. "Because when you start asking questions about status, you are talking to racial bias and profiling. There's no two ways about it."
He said a department policy that forbids undocumented immigrants from serving as confidential informants might inadvertently insert bias into policing efforts.
And being in the country illegally is a civil violation, not a criminal one, Burbank noted.
"That is why Salt Lake City is not in the business of enforcing immigration laws," he said. "There is no crime of being undocumented."
He said focusing on an individual's immigration status just "drives a wedge between the police and the community" when it comes to investigating crimes.
"Most [people] are hardworking individuals going to school or work," Burbank said. "If you're going to treat them like criminals inappropriately, you're going to alienate a whole bunch of people."
Defense attorney Joseph Jardine, with Jardine Law Offices, said confidential informants in general have been found to be "inherently unreliable." And using them can create other issues, such as if the informant is deported before a criminal case is resolved.
"Often times they're granted some type of temporary status here in order to testify against someone or else they're deported after an indictment is handed down in the federal court or [after] a preliminary hearing [in Utah district court]," Jardine said. "You can't find them any more after the damage is done" from their initial testimony.
But overall, Jardine said he doesn't see a "huge issue" with using undocumented immigrants as long as police don't rely solely on the information they're providing.
"I just think law enforcement and the justice system in general need to verify their sources in an independent [manner]," he said.
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In the spirit of doing work, here's a list of some of the hardest working Nuggets from the 2011-12 season, who in great single game performances set their team's season high in various categories.
Gallo had three season highs in a single epic outing against his former team:
The Manimal was a monster on the glass:
Somewhat surprisingly, Lawson (not Andre Miller) set the Nuggets' season high in assists, and he (not Corey Brewer) also had the high in steals:
Harrington also brought the unexpected with the season high in defensive rebounds, though the field goals come as less of a surprise:
It's a fitting departure for the Birdman and welcome to JaVale that they share the season high in blocks:
And finally, there was a six-player, nine-game tie for most 3-pointers made (5), which included Arron Afflalo, Brewer, Rudy Fernandez, Gallo, Harrington and Lawson.
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And so now the prevailing view of change on planet Earth, as one paleontologist put it, is that the history of life consists of long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic. It usually changes slowly, but sometimes it changes fast, and when it does, it's very hard for organisms to keep up. — Elizabeth Kolbert
Noam Scheiber:
Prior to the shutdown, it wasn't clear whether Bachmann et al were irrational (that is, so zealously attached to their ideological goals that they ignored conventional political incentives, like widespread public disapproval), or delusional (meaning they were perfectly capable of responding to political incentives in theory; they just assumed the masses supported them).
The shutdown demonstrated that the Tea Partiers are, for the most part, delusional rather than irrational: They can be forced to reconsider a particular tactic if you persuade them it's politically catastrophic. It just requires an epic level of public anger to break through their epistemically-stunted consciousness. The Tea Partiers had basically believed that the country backed their monomaniacal fixation on repealing Obamacare, and their jihadi plan for getting it done. The shutdown, or at least the endless shutdown-inspired hand-wringing on Fox News, managed to disabuse even them of this belief.
This may seem like an academic point, but the upshot is pretty important. Amid the recent thaw, you can sense the impulse to give bipartisan deal-making another shot. There is occasional talk of "new momentum." A deal on immigration reform suddenly looks possible (though a bit less so this week than early last week). In certain quarters, it's becoming safe to rhapsodize about tax reform or fiscal grand bargains again. It would shock no one if back-channel feelers were being sent.
But the lesson of the shutdown is that engagement and accommodation is worse than useless—it's counterproductive. When you're dealing with delusional people, any gesture in their direction will only be interpreted as confirmation that their delusions are true. When Obama agreed to pare tens of billions from his 2011 spending request shortly after the GOP won control of Congress, House Republicans didn't see it as a sign of good faith, as the White House believed they would. (David Plouffe: "The trust was increased.") They interpreted it as an admission by the president that the public supported their radical agenda. It's only through confrontation—doing away with negotiations and inciting voters to communicate which side they support—that you have any chance of breaking through. Going forward, that means there's no probably difference-splitting approach to, say, getting an immigration bill through the House. If you want immigration reform, let Republicans reject the reasonable-sounding bill that passed the Senate, then force them to pay a brutal price for their unpopular position in 2016.
For much of the past three years, Democrats have indulged on one of two fallacies about the House Republicans: That you can deal with them if you just move far enough in their direction (the White House circa 2011); or that you can't deal with them at all because they're fundamentally off their rockers (many progressives). But it turns out you can deal with them, or at least impose your will on them. You just have to understand the Tea Party psychology that the shutdown made transparent.
I think a big issue is that we both want to be taken care of at the end of the day, and neither of us has any energy to take care of the other…It's the proverbial 'meet me at the door with a martini and slippers.' Don't we all want that? A clean house and someone at the door? I think when I wasn't working I had some guilt that that wasn't me, but now I want to be that other person… . When you're absolutely exhausted, it's hard to be emotionally generous. — Interesting reflections
My former colleague Bryan Collinsworth:
Yale had developed d4T, one of the first AIDS drugs. Folks working on the ground in places like sub-Saharan Africa were seeing these immensely expensive prices. Pharmaceutical companies said, "We aren't going to lower these prices. We're going to protect our patents."
Students at Yale said, "Wait a minute, the university originally developed this. Isn't the dynamic a little different with a university? Look at our mission statement, look at the public funding we get. Shouldn't we reach out to Bristol Myers Squib [the company selling the drug]? We're the ones who licensed it."
The students started causing a ruckus about that. They worked with the developer who [created d4T], William Prusoff. He said, "The goal of my research was to save lives, not to bring licensing revenue into Yale University."
Eventually Yale did renegotiate with Bristol Myers Squib. There was a massive 90 percent price drop for HIV/AIDS treatment. You've seen this huge expansion [of AIDS drug availability] over the past decade for people largely due to these big price reductions. Programs like PEPFAR [George W. Bush's program to treat AIDS in Africa] started buying generics. That doubled the number of people they could treat overnight.
Interesting Ryan Avent:
In 2006, growth looked healthy. Real output grew at just about the ideal pace, even as residential investment shrank at an eye-popping clip. Yet strangely the Fed kept tightening. Its benchmark rate went up another 100 basis points in 2006. By early 2007 the economy was growing below trend. What's more, further declines in residential investment seemed to be as much a symptom of that broader decline as a cause of it. Even so, the Fed didn't begin loosening policy until September of 2007, at which point the financial crisis had begun. The Fed then remained behind the curve until the acute phase of the crisis dragged down all sectors in unison. The government then threw everything including the kitchen sink at the economy, eventually putting a floor under the collapse.
In hindsight, the nasty recursive loop toward acute financial crisis was clearly operating by the second half of 2006. Why didn't the Fed step in to prevent a downward spiral? Maybe because it was slow to perceive trends or because it lacked good real time data. Maybe because rising oil prices muddied the waters. But maybe because it was extremely sensitive to criticisms of past reactions to asset prices, which struck critics as inegalitarian or as contributing to moral hazard, or both. The Fed may have thought (or behaved as if it thought) that a slowdown generated by a deflating housing sector should not be resisted, lest the bubble simply grow larger or reckless traders fail to learn their lesson.
It seems to me that this may be a very bad way to make policy. And the proof is in the pudding. I contend that the crisis itself did much more to generate moral hazard than an effort to prevent a demand collapse would have done, in two ways. First, from the onset of acute crisis in the second half of 2008, financial losses were overwhelmingly driven by macro financial and economic dynamics rather than micro dynamics. So rather than investors reaping what they sowed, everyone in financial markets lost vast amounts of money. Instead of instructing institutions to invest carefully lest they lose their shirt, the Fed encouraged firms to invest riskily, since risky bets pay off in good times and are chalked up to the uncontrollable forces of crisis in bad times.
And second, of course, the extreme danger of the crisis led the government to throw moral hazard concerns overboard entirely. After Lehman, the government had to advertise loudly and clearly that no other shaky dominoes would fall. Good and bad banks alike, they all were under the government's protection at that point (provided they were systemic enough).
The crises of 1907 and 2008 are not the only ones to fit this pattern. America's economy was also slowing well before the crash of 1929, in part because of Fed interest-rate hikes designed to teach an exuberant Wall Street a lesson. Central banks might have learned a critical lesson from recent economic turmoil: that economic disasters occur when central banks think to use weak demand to punish reckless investors or fight moral hazard. Sadly central bankers appear to be moving in the wrong direction, becoming more ready to conclude that weak demand is an acceptable price to pay for bubble prevention.
The tricky thing to know is what would have unfolded had the Fed moved in 2006 and 2007 to break the vicious financial-demand cycle. The ideal outcome would probably have been one in which the Fed focused its attention on preventing a big fall in nominal output growth. In that case the late 2000s might have looked a lot like the late 1980s and early 1990s, in the aftermath of the Savings and Loan and Latin American debt crises. Real output growth would probably have slowed even as nominal output stayed high, leading to a rise in inflation. Once the financial danger was over, the Fed might then have triggered a disinflationary recession, but with nominal rates having crept up with inflation there would be little risk of hitting the zero lower bound. It would not have been a comfortable experience. Many mortgages would have defaulted, and there would have been plenty of real financial losses and perhaps some big institutional failures. But by not allowing demand to collapse the Fed might have been able to keep problems contained and avoid a once-in-80-years economic disaster.
Monetary policy matters.
They say they hate inflation. What they actually hate is government action.
Scott Sumner explains:
Recall that my only disagreement with Plosser is that he supports inflation targeting. But even if I was convinced to shift to that position, I'd still totally disagree with him about the current stance of monetary policy. If the Fed should focus like a laser on its 2% inflation target and ignore unemployment (which seems to be Plosser's preference) then they should adopt a far more expansionary monetary policy. But he seems to favor a tighter policy.
One speaker after another talked about policy like we were back in the 1970s, instead of seeing the slowest growth in M* V since Herbert Hoover was president. Why isn't Bernanke a big hero on the right? The Fed is producing very low inflation. Talking to individual people didn't help much, as there was a wide range of views. Some thought inflation was actually much higher than reported (it isn't.) Some pointed to asset price inflation (even though they had not cried "deflation" when asset prices were plunging in 2009.) Some thought the inflation would show up later (it clearly won't.) In fairness, some favor no inflation at all, or even mild deflation, so for them money really is too tight.
But my overall reaction is that the conservative/Austrian/monetarist/classical liberal/libertarian/RBC schools of thought are too influenced by a combination of massive deficits, massive QE, near-zero interest rates, and simply assume that with all this stimulus we must have high inflation, or else it's just around the corner. So they end up "crying fire, fire in Noah's flood," as Ralph Hawtrey described similar conservative fears in the 1930s. Another period of near-zero rates, QE, big deficits, etc. Another period where (in retrospect) conservatives were wrong.
Clifford Nass:
The windshield, Dr. Nass said, was in danger of becoming just another screen.
"Imagine you get into an autonomous car, and it's sunny outside, your suburban road is empty and you're playing 'Angry Birds,' " Dr. Nass said in an interview with Automotive News earlier this year, referring to the video game franchise.
"An hour later, the car asks you to take over within 10 seconds. Except now, it's pouring rain, there's tons of traffic downtown and the car to your left rear is behaving erratically. These are things you would have noticed if you were driving.
"But now you are dropping in from outer space, basically. We have no idea whether people can mentally prepare themselves for this."
…One of his most publicized research projects was a 2009 study on multitasking. He and his colleagues presumed that people who frequently juggled computer, phone or television screens, or just different applications, would be skilled at ignoring irrelevant information, or able to switch between tasks efficiently, or possessed of a particularly orderly memory.
"We all bet high multitaskers were going to be stars at something," he said in an interview with the PBS program "Frontline." "We were absolutely shocked. We all lost our bets. It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They're terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they're terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they're terrible at switching from one task to another."
He added, "One would think that if people were bad at multitasking, they would stop. However, when we talk with the multitaskers, they seem to think they're great at it and seem totally unfazed and totally able to do more and more and more."
Computers are very far from being able to be good managers: sit down, set expectations, measure performance. You need humans to do that. — Tyler Cowen


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Thanks for your interest in Quality Coffee Company and our H&C Brand Coffee.Quality Coffee Company HistoryQuality Coffee Company was first established in 1981 in Roanoke, Virginia. Initially known as Quality Coffee Service, the company provided office break beverage services to offices in and around Roanoke. The company Founder, David Booth, had worked for some time for Woods Brothers Coffee Company prior to branching out on his own. While at Woods Brothers, he learned the importance of providing his customers with quality products, excellent service and value for their money. The company grew steadily for the next several years, building a reputation in the industry based on those early-learned lessons of Quality, Service, and Value. In 1985, the company was literally wiped off the map by a devastating flood in the Roanoke Valley. Booth started over again, regaining his customer base and expanding his business to include the formation of a highly successful water company, Mountain Springs Water Company. It was during this time that he moved the company's focus to include the food service venue. He reasoned correctly that the office coffee business was becoming saturated and that the food service industry offered more room for his company to grow. He followed this change in direction with a name change to Quality Coffee Company to better reflect the company's new focus. He also invested in the company's future by moving the operation into a new facility in Roanoke, a new building he was able to construct after years of planning. Booth continued to develop his relationship with manufacturers of quality products. He believed that good communication was necessary between his company and the manufacturers in order to meet the ever-changing needs of his customers. Booth puts customers first in service, saying; "Their success is our success."
The company, with its new direction, continued to grow and expand. Word soon got around the food service industry that Quality Coffee was not only a reliable source for great coffee and teas, but provided a level of customer service unmatched in Southwest Virginia. In September 2000, Booth acted on an opportunity and acquired H&C Coffee Company in Roanoke. H&C had formerly been the Woods Brothers Coffee Company where Booth had learned his early lessons in customer satisfaction. With the acquisition, came over 70 years of satisfied customers and a lifetime of experience in customer service. The joining of these two great companies insured the future and continues the tradition founded by both; the tradition of providing customers with the best products available and a service experience, which exceeds their expectations.
Quality Coffee Company continues to grow. We earn new customers every day by delivering on our promise of Quality, Service and Value. We are thankful for the opportunity to help our customers grow their business in the 21st Century.
During the war years of the 40's, Harold made a trip to New York and was impressed by the neon signage used in advertising. Upon his return to Roanoke, he enlisted the help of a local sign company to design and install the "H&C Coffee" sign on top of the roasting plant located on east Campbell Avenue. The sign remained there until the mid 60's at which time the plant was torn down. The famous sign was relocated to its current location atop the building on Salem Avenue, which is home to Billy's Ritz Restaurant. It is now classified as a Historical Landmark. Between the early 50's and the late 70's, Woods Brother's Coffee Company enjoyed their best years. At one point the company sold more than four million pounds of H&C Coffee annually. Harold stuck to his belief in taking care of his customers. All requests, regardless of how trivial, were never ignored. Upon gaining knowledge of a death in a customer's family, the company would immediately send flowers and send a representative to the funeral. The company was very proud of the employees and treated them well and with great respect. The salesmen were all addressed as "Mister" by all of the employees including the management staff. For the most part, all of the employees remained with the company until retirement. Currently, Robert (Red) Hartberger, who was hired in 1954 by Harold Woods, remains on staff and contributes greatly to the company's success. Harold Woods had nine children, of which eight were active in the business. At the time of his death, six of the children remained stockholders. His four sons became known as the "Woods Brothers". They all served the company in numerous capacities, ending their respective careers as President.
Nevin Woods Sr. / President / '56 - '59 Norman (Mutt) Woods / President / '59 - '66 Robert (Bob) Woods / President / '66 - '72 Edwin (Eddie) Woods / President / '72 - '89
In 1985, Roanoke experienced a devastating flood that affected most of the city. Woods Brother's Coffee Co. was hit hard, losing the entire inventory of product, vehicles, equipment, and office records. The impact was so great the company was never able to recover. The doors were closed in 1989. In 1990, the company was reopened as H&C Coffee Company by a group of private investors and was managed by Ed Woods, the former President of the company. The company remained a viable entity in Roanoke for the next ten years, meeting the needs of their loyal customers. In September 2000, the company was acquired by Quality Coffee Company. Like H&C, Quality Coffee was Roanoke-Born and Roanoke-Bred. Established in 1981 by David Booth, a past employee of Woods Brother's Coffee, Quality Coffee was built on the similar tradition of meeting and exceeding the customer's needs. The joining together of these two great local companies has been well received by the Food Service Industry. Every day, more and more fine establishments are discovering that they can trust their highly profitable beverage program to Quality Coffee / H &C. Quality Coffee's years of experience, outstanding product selection, and value-driven pricing, coupled with service and delivery that's second to none, makes the choice in beverage service crystal clear. The future looks bright for Quality Coffee / H&C and their customers.
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Mars One plans to send four astronauts to the red planet in 2030, with additional crews of four arriving every two years.
According to the organization, 1,000 volunteers have already signed up for the one-way trip.
The project is being funded by corporate and personal donations.
A "large group" of ambassadors - including an astronaut, a physicist and NASA scientists - are also involved.
"Sending humans to Mars has been my dream for twenty years. Evidently, I am not alone -- we have received emails from over fifty countries ... regardless of their background, people are positive about this optimistic event that we believe will bring people of Earth a little bit closer together," said Arno Wielders, co-founder and technical director of Mars One, in a statement.
Mars One will begin selecting its astronauts in early 2013.
The organization plans to detail "every aspect" of the mission through a reality TV show.


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Asparagus Sole Rolls
James Carrier
Notes: All sole are members of the flounder family. You'll find the largest variety at a fish market. Choices may include petrale, English, sand, and Rex sole, starry flounder, and sand dabs (usually whole). Boned sole fillets vary considerably in size --from 2 to 8 ounces, depending upon the variety. Some fillets are skinned, others aren't, as the skin is very thin and tender. To make this dish, choose thin fillets; thicker pieces will take a bit longer to cook.
Yield: Makes 4 servings
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 248
- Calories from fat: 36%
- Protein: 35g
- Fat: 9.9g
- Saturated fat: 5.3g
- Carbohydrate: 4.5g
- Fiber: 0.9g
- Sodium: 221mg
- Cholesterol: 102mg
- 1 pound asparagus (1/2 in. thick)
- 1 1/2 pounds boned sole fillets (4 to 12, about 1/4 in. thick and 2 to 3 in. wide--cut wide pieces in half lengthwise; see notes)
- Wine sauce (recipe follows)
- Salt and pepper
- 1. Rinse asparagus; snap off and discard tough ends. In a 10- to 12-inch frying pan over high heat, bring 1/2 inch water to a boil. Add asparagus and simmer, stirring occasionally, until barely tender when pierced, about 2 minutes; drain.
- 2. Meanwhile, rinse sole and lay pieces flat (if unskinned, skin up). Align an equal portion of asparagus, tips in same direction, at 1 end and across the narrow width of each fillet; roll fillet to enclose asparagus. Set sole, seam down, in a buttered, shallow 2 1/2- to 3-quart casserole. Cover tightly with foil.
- 3. Bake in a 425° regular or convection oven until fish is opaque but moist-looking in center of thickest part (cut to test), 12 to 16 minutes.
- 4. Spoon wine sauce over fish and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Wine sauce. In a 10- to 12-inch frying pan over medium-high heat, frequently stir 2 tablespoons each butter or margarine and minced shallots until golden, about 3 minutes. Add 3/4 cup dry white wine. Boil on high heat, stirring occasionally, until reduced to 1/4 cup, 5 to 7 minutes. Use hot or warm.
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Asparagus Sole Rolls Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Main Dishes
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Quick/Easy
- CUISINE: American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Fish
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Carbohydrate
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- OCCASION: Spring
- PUBLICATION: Sunset
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"Every man must know when it's time to move on."
How do you know when it's time to quit?
More than anything, when I talk to readers, clients and friends about their careers, the biggest challenge they face is figuring out when you know it's time to leave.
For many, it's so hard to know when to jump or if you should at all. So much so, they get paralyzed.
Do you ever wonder if the work you're doing, the career you have, the way you spend 75% of every day, is worth your time? Ever curious if there's something else that would fire you up a bit more?
Well I think I have the answer.
Let's start with a personal story.
Four years ago my wife quit her career in corporate PR to pursue her passion for yoga, fitness and nutrition. She went off and got certified to teach yoga, do personal training and started teaching folks about what to put into their bodies through her classes and blog (for the health nuts out there, you gotta check out here vegetarian/vegan cooking and recipe blog, Food-LifeBalance. I'm her dedicated taste tester and definitely not complaining ;)).
She also recently got a sweet gig helping a fellow Living Legend and fitness fanatic manage a chain of workout studios. Last night we went out to celebrate (Congrats Chelsea!). As we drove she remembered back to her couple years in the PR industry. She vividly recalled that she always knew she never wanted to have her boss's life. It was nothing against her superiors (who were actually great people), but for whatever reason, she just never wanted to be in those shoes.
Fast forward a couple years, and one massive career shift later, she noticed that from day one teaching at her new fitness studio, she found herself admiring her boss and the role she had – inspired by the responsibility she was given, the way she got to help people and her genuine excitement for what she was doing.
Two years later my wife has just about that same role and it's appearing to be everything she imagined. She admired the work her boss did & the life she lived, and it inspired her to operate on an entirely new level.
I can't say the results surprise me (of course I'm a tad biased), but this did get me thinking…
It turns out I have a sure fire way to figure out whether you should stay or go.
Before you read any further, stop for a second. Look around you. Look at the people at your office or the ones on your calendar invites. Think about the person you report to. Do they inspire you? Do you want what they have?
Do you want to be your boss?
If the answer is no, it's time to get out. Simple as that. If you're at your desk right now and are peering into your boss's office in disgust, seriously grab your fish bowl and coffee mug and get the F*/# out! I mean it. Start running and don't look back.
Ok maybe you don't have to immediately pull the fire alarm and run out the emergency exit, but at least notice the siren that should be ringing in your head right about now. Respect it.
It's time to do something about it.
If the people you work for do not inspire you, excite you and make you want to do epic things, you are in the wrong place. If the people who are molding and teaching you, are not people you admire, you are wasting your time.
*note: If you're an entrepreneur then sub out "boss" for "successful folks in your space" anywhere it comes up. This stuff applies to everyone.
The longer you stay, the longer you'll stay and the steeper the spiral becomes.
I hear from people all the time say "things will get better", or "I'm going to stick around for the next promotion and then maybe take off".
I have news for you. If things aren't better now, the odds are they aren't going to be better in a month or two. There is no saving up happiness and enjoyment.
Happiness not spent today, does not equal more happiness tomorrow.
If you think you'll be less stressed, less conflicted and less disenchanted at a higher level, you're in for a nasty surprise.
And I can assure you if you're boss isn't someone you want to become, things are definitely not going to get any better.
A few years ago Robert Cialdini, the bestselling author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, taught me that we as humans are conditioned to stay consistent to prior decisions we've made. It's why we promote the products we buy, even if it turns out we don't totally love them. It's also why we stay in jobs that straight up suck. This trait proves incredibly powerful when building something you believe in, but turns deadly when you start to do things that aren't congruent with who we are.
Our reasons for staying in a soul crushing career often sound something like…
- "Well I've already put in 5 years"
- "If I left now, all the work I've put in for that promotion will be a waste"
- "I can't leave my coworkers hanging"
- "I'm only 9 months away from being Partner"
Sure, those might even sound like decent excuses in your own head. But do you even freakin' care about that promotion? Is that really what you want? Or is it just what everyone else thinks they want so by default you've started to want it too?
And do you think it will be any easier to leave once you become Partner? Let's get serious. The day you reach that next rung, you are that much less likely to take the leap to do something meaningful that you know you should have done years prior.
There is never a good time to experience massive change. I don't care what you're doing.
But if the person giving you the orders at work or the person you're modeling your business off of, is not someone you want to be, NOW is the only time to do something about it.
Stop climbing the ladder to nowhere.
If you're in a situation with people you don't admire, doing things that don't matter, realize that every ounce of effort you put in from this day forward is a waste. A waste of energy and a waste of potential. Every project you complete and rung you climb is going towards nothing. It's building something you don't care about for people you don't look up to.
Is that any way to spend your next 30+ years? If you do, you'll likely get to the top and want to do a swan dive right into the concrete on the bottom floor, where you could have just walked away before you got so committed in the first place.
We spend so much time climbing the ladder that we forget to ask ourselves where the top is and why would I even want to be up there. Often times it's difficult to understand what it would mean to actually be in this high up place you dream about.
The best proxy for this is to observe the person already there - Your boss or your boss's boss.
Notice all the folks above you who are more "successful" than you. What do they do on their days off and in the evenings? Do they have hobbies and passions or are they too busy trying to get to the next level? How's their family? Do they even have one? What about their friends? How do they treat the people around them? Are they healthy and fit, energetic and excited?
Most of us, in racing to the top of something, only count the things that are easy to measure. In a word, money. The vision of the money shines so damn bright that we don't even notice the carnage that those we 'admire' created in order to experience it. It's time to start taking note.
Surround yourself with the people living your dreams.
Take another look around you. Who inspires you? Who's job do you constantly wish you had? Who lives the type of life you've consistently dreamed of?
Notice the folks you admire. Understand why you admire them. Surround yourself with them. If you're an employee, find a boss who doubles as a role model. There should be no other type. If you're an entrepreneur find the mentors and models you truly respect.
It's time to begin working towards something that's meaningful.
As always, it starts with the people.
If you can't get behind the people above you, it's time to get out.
I'll ask one more time, do you want to be your boss?
Time to get honest.
Is your answer No? Check this out…
If you know the answer to this question is "No" for you, then it's time to start doing something about it. I've created the Live Off Your Passion Career Course to help you with that very process. It's at least worth a look and you can always try it risk-free. Here are all the course details.
It's time to start working around people who inspire you!
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95 Responses to "Do You Want to Be Your Boss? (or How to Know When It's Time to Quit…)"
Awesome article, Scott. "Do you want to be your boss?" is a great question to ask yourself when considering leaving Corp. This is a great measure to see if it's time to hit the road.
I would add that another option instead of quitting is to stay and make a bigger impact in the Corporate game you are playing. After all, someone has to stay and make a difference.
I like that, when I don't tend to like my boss, I still want their job and prove it can be done differently.
Don't run away from the stuff that's wrong, take it head on and make a change. Or leave anyway.
Whatever makes you happy, but glad to see the 2nd option being pointed out here as well.
Thanks ExcutiveX
Hi Scott,
Great article. If I may add, asking the best questions often gets you the best answers. And this is certainly a great question to ask yourself.
It sure is making me think hard right now!
"Happiness not spent today, does not equal more happiness tomorrow."
This is such a great and wise observation. I know that I did that for a time in a job, I kept telling myself "it's going to get better". . and of course it didn't! I'm not sure who said it first but this reminds me of "If you always do what you've always done, you will always be who you've always been" Looking around at the people we surround ourselves with is a great way to evaluate where we are headed. . .
Great food for thought! Thanks! (And congrats to your wife!)
Just one person? Dang.
The person who has been the most inspirational to me lately is Ash Ambirge (http://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/). After losing everything, she launched an eBook from her car, and now she takes names and kicks ass while travelling to romantic locales.
Hi Scott,
Great article!
My sister asked me that same question 3yrs ago and it helped me decide to quit my job.
Unfortunately I fell off the wagon and while on a working holiday am back working in the same job. It was just too easy and the excuse that I get paid more doing this, therefore I will have more time to travel/figure out what I really want to do was easy to believe.
I am finally coming back around (I have to say in part thanks to your website).
Keep the inspirational words coming .. they are finally sinking in and I am determined to find my why and start living my legend.
Hey Scott, another thought inspiring post and the new brand works well – congrats.
This post resonates with me. I'm totally behind your sentiment and I can't agree more with it. Yet I'm still thinking 'I really wish I could…'. It's a mix of fear of maintining an income as the main bread winner, plus the practicality of switching to a different well paid job if you want to do something else entirely.
My chosen route was to set-up an on-line business in parallel to working full time. That started a year ago and it's taking longer than I had hoped. I find the venture and work both tend to suffer unless I only spend my time working. So I'd love to see a post (or some thoughts from readers) on a set of transitionary options to get where you need to be, when jumping ship isn't practical.
For those that are doing it – the very best of luck! Kudos for having the courage!
I want to be like Esther Havens. She is a humanitarian photographer who travels the world using her skills and creativeness, and her heart, to tell stories for people who need their stories told.
So glad to have seen this comment, Steve! I had never heard of Esther Havens either but just spent ten minutes on her blog and an interview she did – Amazing! Thanks!
Such an important message, Scott! I recently left my job of 18 years because I knew I could not possibly let it be the last job of my life. Mired in bureaucracy and fearful people. I jumped! I'm exploring now and rebuilding my life. An account of my progress is on: zanidyer.blogspot.com.
Your e-mails are a great source of information and support. thank you!
Jeez Scott, you nearly had me packing my shit and heading for the door…
Not yet though. It will happen, and sooner rather than later. Bookmarking this for additional inspiration down the road.
Producer Mark Burnett inspires me..I read his book and I someday hope to produce a reality show. Not just any reality show but a very successful reality show.
This is great work!! I only wish I had had advice like this 40 years ago when I was working. I worked for 7 years before I had my children. Raising my 2 children was my passion but wonder what I could have done with those 7 years following college.
Keep up the amazing work you do! You are very inspiring!
Wow!! Amazing thought, put in a brilliant way…
I believe one should always follow where his passion lies…and your post has given me that one push which was required to take that big step I've been working on since last few months…
Your post has added a lot of clarity to my thought and assures me that I am on the right direction…Thanks.
Looking forward to more such thought provoking reads…
I love this idea and it's exactly why I left a big public accounting job many years ago. I was pushing to make partner faster than anyone ever had. Then I started spending more time with the other partners and realized it was definitely not a life I wanted so I jumped ship after 7 years there. I spent the next 2 years on a "sabbatical" to find what it was that I really wanted to do. It was a couple of the best years of my life.
Due to finances, I ended up back in corporate America in a variety of jobs. I can't stand my current boss. I took the initiative to try and change things for most my first year there and it was like beating my head against the wall. Now it's a paycheck while I develop my own online biz (mostly on company time since I'm totally underpaid so I look at it like I'm taking back the time they're not paying me for).
I just got a part time job with an old friend (he started one of the companies I worked for). He's amazing and totally inspiring. He totally supports my business and other dreams I have. This time it's something I'm excited about even though it's a job.
So I'm learning to follow my own dream while working a job for a totally inspiring person and group of people. The best of both worlds!
Scott, I absolutely love what you're doing here. More people really need this message. You rock!
Angela Russel has been inspiring me for a year by giving up her life in America and fighting the economic and employment systems by going where she can find valuable work. Here's her blog! Enjoy the inspiration!
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Hi Scott,
I see more and more people quitting their jobs and starting their own businesses.
I worked for corporate America for 15 years until my life shifted in a way that I had to become an entrepreneur.
Working for myself is so much better than having a job.
Scott, this whole posts resonates with me. My favorite part is not to ignore the siren in our heads, but to respect it. That word respect is so key; something I've never thought of before, a very strong word.
On another note, my wife is also a burgeoning food blogger so I empathize with your taste-testing duties. It's a good life!
You are assuming everyone wants to move "higher" in his/her organization. My spouse was on the right job track for him. He actually enjoyed his work. He did not want to move "up" into management. His company recognized his value to the point of creating a technical track so he could move up without moving onto the management track. There's more than one way to get the job you want.
I probably should have added that this was written in the past tense because he retired after nearly 40 years with that company.
Dear Scott,
Thanks a million times for what you are doing. In fact, there is no word to describe what you are doing. And, you do not know how much you have changed my life. Hence, I am a big fan of your blog even though I have recently joined it. Your blog inspires me every day and I am very thankful for that!
I would like to ask a question, however, I am not so sure if I can convey it well. I hope I will.
What I would like to say is that one specific job is neither bad nor good. What we want from it makes it bad or good because there are some other people who are doing the same job with passion and enthusiasm. Those passionate people are very few. For example, there are many politicians in the world, however, one has become like Gandhi changing India very deeply. So, I think maybe my boss is not a good criteria to see if I want to go on with my job. Maybe my boss is doing the job only because of the salary or some other reasons, which I do not know. If my boss had been Gandhi or mother Theresa, I might have found politics or nursing very interesting jobs. So, I think it really depends on who is your boss and how he does his job. Some people get you interested in something that you don't like and some make you hate what you love doing. May I ask what you think dear Scott? I greatly appreciate your kindness in advance.
Thanks for everything.
Have a nice weekend,
Hey Scott,
I never thought of imagining having you boss's life as the measuring stick for whether you ought to consider changing careers. Such a novel idea.
While Nafis has a point, I think we all likely have a range of jobs or careers that would more comfortably suit us.
Some people are naturally better at crunching numbers than others, for instance. Others are people who are naturally "people persons." Work that reflects those internal inclinations are ones that can more naturally and spontaneously create more joy in our lives.
Hence, the need to change careers for some.
Thanks for the thought-provoking posts!
Love this post, and I want to emphasize a point you touched on: It may not be a black-and-white situation where either your boss is your role model or they are bitter/miserable/overworked. It may simply be that they are not who *you* want to become.
My current boss is an amazing woman whom I admire very much. She's a terrific leader, incredibly smart and kind, passionate, educated, etc. I know her outside of work enough to know that she has a very happy, full, and rich personal life as well.
If I became like her, I would have many, many blessings in my life. A person could do a lot worse. But she's not who I want to be. I often think about how– maybe not easy exactly, but how clear and straightforward it would be if I wanted to follow in her footsteps. My career path would be laid out in a precise, direct way and sometimes that feels very tempting, because the path I'm meant for always seems to involve a lot of hacking through underbrush and taking compass readings, you know?
But if I followed in her footsteps, I would always feel that I had lived someone else's legend, not my own.
So yeah, it's time to go, and it's kind of sad because it means leaving a lot of good stuff behind. So I linger, trying to muster the faith to believe that it wouldn't be a huge mistake to leap from a somewhat bland security into wildly exciting uncertainty.
I think about quitting my job pretty regularly. I love the work that I do and the people I work with, but it gets very stressful regularly working for a startup. However, for me, I am reminded whenever I think of jumping ship that I am not merely a rung on a ladder.
My boss was approached by P&G recently to do marketing for them for roughly 4 times his current pay. The reason he turned it down? To work with me and my team. If my boss is willing to make that sacrifice, the stress seems a lot more manageable.
Great article, Scott:)
My answer is no, I don't want to be like my boss.
Although I have to admit that I do admire her for the passion she puts in her job daily, she really loves what she's doing and enjoys it.
Who inspires me the most is Kim Kiyosaki.
I just commited myself to quit my job in 6 months starting from now and move to another country to begin a new life.
I really enjoy your articles.
Keep up with the good work!
The person whom I admire at where I work is Annie (I'm leaving out her last name for privacy purposes). The reason I strive to be like Annie is becuase she, like no one else, has a breadth and depth of health insurance knowledge that puts others to shame. And Annie is always kind and compassionate enough to share her wealth of knowledge with those who need it like me. Great post!
Thank you for all of the inspiring material. After spending too much time peering into my boss's office in disgust, I finally took the plunge on Friday and put in my 30 day notice at my soul-crushing job! I can't wait to start my journey of pursuing meaningful income.
Thanks for the post. It's true about 'The longer you stay, the longer you'll stay and the steeper the spiral becomes'. Guilt just adds on and can make one feels bad about leaving simply because of reasons like :
- having invested the time
- being hopeful for change/things to be better
and it binds even tighter and harder to leave.
Can relate to that, and the best way is to just be honest if its making me happy or not being there.
This article was timely and packed full of info. I remember the day I realized that climbing the ladder was no longer for me. It's kind of crazy that we so mindlessly think we have to move up and up and up when the reality is that you may just love or really like where you currently are.
Why do we do this to ourselves? I was recently in a spot where I was totally dissatisfied with the company and responsibilities. SO I GOT OUT. Now I'm doing the same job with WAY LESS responsibility but I'm 10x happier then I was. I think the key statement to this entire article is this line:
"We spend so much time climbing the ladder that we forget to ask ourselves where the top is and why would I even want to be up there. Often times it's difficult to understand what it would mean to actually be in this high up place you dream about."
Thanks Scott. This is great stuff.
- Greg
I'd like the post very provocative and a question I was not expecting. It can be helpful, but the single most important question? Don't agree.
I knew when I took my latest job that I didn't want my then boss's job but I did see the job as a fantastic opportunity to build some experience I didn't have with a great company where I love the products and the long term growth potential. Luckily, I have had the personal strength for 10 years not to let money or promotions drive my career decisions. Some days I hate my job and get frustrated and I know it's time to start looking for my next position but I also have great mentors within the company that I might not have that are helping me grow towards work that I will love even more and help me reach my life's mission.
I'd argue even if you want your boss's job, it might not be the right job for you. Maybe you're still driven by money and other people's views of success and not your own happiness? What if you don't want your boss's job but you love your current job and just don't want the added responsibility and stress of your boss's job. I like the question as it does get one thinking but not necessarily an indicator of happiness.
Disenchanted… Exactly the word I used to describe my current situation. Well said. I have always used this litmus test to walk away from situations that didn't fit my interests.
Just proves the old adage. Its an ill wind that blows no good. – Theyve finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer. Attributed to Milton Berle
I'm sorry to say, but I have to totally disagree with your logic.
Whether I want to be my boss has nothing to do with whether I love what I do.
I may not know my passion, but I do know one thing, I don't wanna be my boss.
This has nothing to do with my current job! My boss has a significantly different job than I have, so your logic absolutely doesn't make sense to me.
The thing about my job that I love is the making programs part (without coding mind you). My boss does not do that. So I don't wanna be my boss. Doesn't mean I have to leave the job I do have.
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Great frigging advice!
I have heard this before: Ask yourself, "Do I want to have my boss's job?" If not, you're not in the right field.
And I can see that. The jobs I've liked the least were the jobs where I could've climbed the ladder and would've hated it. I'd prefer to be on the bottom, where at least I'm enjoying my position.
Hi Scott, I feel like I'm going to have a panic attack when I read your stuff. Is this also a sign that I should leave my career? I definitely want to (obviously, or I wouldn't be here reading this in the first place) but I don't know how to take the first step. I guess it's fear that I am experiencing. Have other people told you that they start crying and experiencing panic when thinking about a career change?
Probably your most awesome post to date and it hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks. Thanks so much
"grab your fish bowl and coffee mug and get the F*/# out!" Love it!! My new favorite quote. LOL I know this is an old post but I just had to comment b/c I loved this one and I just got it in the email series. I work at a small co. and I wouldn't ever end up in the owner or my direct report's job – but I will say I don't admire them at all or want to be like them. And I do have moments, more and more these days, where I just want to run screaming for the exits so this totally resonated w/ me! I literally, just today, texted my husband at like 10 AM and said "I'm afraid I'm going to snap and go running out the door one of these days. I can hardly stand it anymore!" It's like, now that I have the idea in my head that I want out and to work on my own, I can stand being in the office less and less. And until April of this year it NEVER occurred to me to be an entrepreneur. I thought I'd ALWAYS work in an office for someone else. I'm sure my husband thinks I've lost my mind, but the old way of working just doesn't seem viable anymore!
I understand that I'm not inspired by my job, and I need to get out. I also understand that I have a wife, a 6 year old, and an infant who all live 100% off the money I make. If I stop making my current level of income, my family will have some major problems. I bet a lot of other people are in this same position.
So I think the questions isn't "Should I quit?", but rather "How can I make a replacement income on the side, so I can quit?". I feel that every ounce of energy I waste thinking about how I hate my job could be better spent focusing on what I can do to fix the situation.
I think what most of the readers of this blog really want is helpful information about how they can work towards a replacement income doing what they love.
Has anyone reading this purchased Scott's "Live Off Your Passion Career Course" and found that it was effective in helping them build a replacement income on the side?
Realizing I didn't want my boss's job (or her life), or that of anyone else in my field for that matter, was a huge sign for me that ultimately led me to walk away from a masters and a successful career without knowing what was next. Best decision I ever made.
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Scott, I had to laugh when I saw the excuse:
"Well I've already put in 5 years"
for not leaving a job. Suddenly, I had this image of someone in a federal penitentiary being shown the door and saying "I've invested five years in this place, should I really leave?"
I guess that's an extreme example, but if the job is unfulfilling, aren't we saying the same thing, just to a lower degree?
Thanks again for all you do.
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I completely agree with all of this. I have absolutely no desire to become anybody senior to me in my line of work. I have absolutely no passion for anything at all in my employment anymore and am absolutely desperate to get out despite the fairly decent salary.
Only thing is… I have a legal court order to repay an unfathomable mountain of debt at a rate that means I HAVE to keep earning this salary.
I cannot express how dead my soul has become as a result of this.
Thanks for the lovely article Scott.
Yes, you are right, I don't think I want my boss's life.. they sure seem to have a lot of money, but no family life, putting in extremely long hours in office and spending more time in being sycophants and showing off that they are doing a lot of work than doing actual good work to help shape people's careers…
In 9 years of my career, I have actually liked only three of my bosses, who have inspired me and have traits of person that I would like to become.. Coincidentally, all three of them resigned and quit those jobs mainly due to environmental reasons (office politics and not being able to run things by their ethical and meaningful ways and because they didn't want to be like their bosses)..
I am a CA and after working for almost a decade, I quit my job 5 months back.. I was in a very well paying job with an Investment Bank.. although my work , my team and working for my clients made me happy, but the environment was stifling, so I quit..
it was really difficult to give up the great money.. and I still keep thinking if I made the right decision.. for so many years it seems that everyone around me had been mentioning me as a great achiever, by the kind of money that I was making at such a young age.. and people called me crazy for quitting my job.. the measurement of everything in life in money terms has so deeply been embedded in our lives, that most of us (including myself) are deeply confused as to what we actually want in life..
Every year, before I had started working, I had a principle of learning a new thing.. and that made me very happy and feel good about myself…this principle had got lost somewhere citing the reason, "not enough time" and somehow, if I look back, I lost my cheerful personality and Individuality… I had been sad and had somehow started measuring my self-worth only in terms of money that I had been making and the blind race of designations and positions..
In the five months, that I have quit, I have learnt yoga (shed a few kilos), am healthier, went back to skating after almost 15 years, learnt to drive and have been able to take care of my baby like I had always wanted.. and have also repaid my entire home loan.. all this makes me happy for sure…
But somehow, there are days, when I keep thinking, if I made the right choice and keep thinking of the assets that I could have built, the position at which I would have been had I continued working… keep comparing all the new business ideas that I get and keep restricting myself as how much they would pay me vis-a vis my earlier job…and also that those are not even remotely related to CA work and I might be spoiling my qualification..this has been the biggest hurdle and has kept me away from doing things.. deep within I do not want to lose my new life, but am yet to be strong enough and decide what I want from my life.. thanks to my very supportive husband I have had the liberty to chose what I want to do.. I hope I take his advice and stop going back to job sites, as I think I do not have the personality to run things by some one else's way and will be most happy to work without boundaries.. I hope reading your articles and listening to my husband's advice, will make me clearer as to what I want from life… Thanks very much
Scott, your article inspires one to take note of what is and isn't working at work. I've stayed in jobs too long – partly because I didn't know how to measure in advance whether a new job would really be better. A "positive interview", a walk-through of the office, a few handshakes, and a general assessment of the environment usually aren't enough to reveal how actually working at a job will be. And there isn't usually a "trial run" at the new job or a willingness to "take you back" at the old one. In companies where I have worked for over 10 years, I found that my bosses usually were promoted every couple years and if one boss was less than wonderful, the next one might be very good so my leaving one company for another could be short-sighted. I usually liked the work I was doing – just not necessarily the boss or a few of the co-workers. I never wanted to be a boss or to be on call 24/7.
Since there are definitely times when changing jobs is the right move, I wonder if there are "guidelines" to avoid moving from one situation into another unsatisfactory one. Sometimes what most needs to change is one's attitude.
Hi Scott,
Great article I must say.Quite an eye opener. I've worked in Oil and gas for a while now and the only reason i wanted to climb up the ladder is the money. My company is very chilled out, I haven't really been stressed out but the work is highly boring. Like Tim Ferriss said "the opposite of happiness is boredom". I looked at my seniors and what they do…Its definitely not what i wanna do 30 year in the future.
I am serving my 1 month notice period now and the 'Should I Quit' mails have had a fair share in influencing my decision. It is definitely a leap of faith. I am on module 2 of the LOYP course and loving every bit of it. Getting to know myself in a very different way.
Thanks again Scott.
I cannot tell exactly that I do not want to be in my boss's position, but the most important thing I cant be sure whether I want to be also, There's some serious thinking to be done with this question even though it just seems like a simple question.
For now because passion is what I want to find I can confidently say that being in my boss's position wont let me change the world, it will definitely not allow me to make a difference, I know I have to quit but I'm gonna start slowly one thing at a time.
1st discover my passion and then run towards my goal.


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1. Plugged In Right Turn Live
The kids of Needham's Plugged In will be taking to Arlington tomorrow night for a very special acoustic performance at Right Turn Live. The Right Turn group is a non-profit that provides substance abuse and mental health treatments to a host of different people. Tomorrow night will be a great opportunity to catch some great music and support a fantastic cause. Tickets are $10.
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Take a special look at Rosemary Brook and find the connection between the landscape and the people who inhabit it with this walk led by Harvard landscape ecologist Richard T.T. Forman.


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7 Ways to Get Siblings Involved in Pregnancy
A new pregnancy can be confusing for siblings. Seeing their mom's belly grow and trying to comprehend that they'll be sharing their space with another person is a big adjustment. Here are some clever ways to get big brothers and sisters excited about the new baby!
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Growth Charts
Chart the big brother or sister's growth every time you get a new measurement for the baby! This could be a fun way to entertain kids who have to sit through ultrasounds or other doctor appointments. If your OB is willing, you could even have them get involved in doling out measurements.
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Weekly Fruit
Many pregnancy apps and books compare the baby's weekly size to a fruit (lime, lemon, grapefruit, etc). Help kids get the visual by picking up the fruit in-store! You could even do weekly fruit coloring sheets and activities.
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Make Gifts for the New Sibling
Kids can get hands-on by crafting welcome letters and custom onesies for their future sibling. Even toddlers can scribble their sentiments, while older children can make use of their own passions such as knitting or sewing.
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Nursery Decor
Got a kid who's really into a particular color or animal? Let them infuse their personality into the new baby's nursery! Take them along to help pick out the crib and room decorations to get them excited and involved.
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Name Selection
If you're feeling brave enough to battle the "Sponge Bob" and "Elmo" selections, you could have family members offer their favorite names. Once you've narrowed down the selection to a couple favorites, have siblings weigh in for a tie-breaker!
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Countdown Calendar
Put a big calendar up on the wall to track how many days are left until the due date. Have siblings cross off every day to help count down time until the baby arrives. They can also count weeks, and older children can try to calculate hours and minutes left to strengthen their math skills.
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Talk to the Baby
When you read your children their nightly story, have siblings say goodnight to the baby in your stomach. They can pick out special books to read to the baby or share their favorite songs as well. Be sure to talk about the baby in your day-to-day discussions, such as dinnertime talk or prayer time.
9 Books About New Babies Your Toddler Will LoveIf you're like me, then your children are spaced only a couple years apart. It's not easy for toddlers to understand what it means that mommy is pregnant and having a baby. One thing that really helped us was to read stories with our daughter about becoming a big sister. Click through to check out these sibling book suggestions!view gallery


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Ok, so this probably (maybe) isn't anywhere close to being true, but we're going to go ahead and entertain the thought anyway, m'kay?
Wait for it -- Kate Middleton may be forced to live with Cressida Bonas, Prince Harry's new girlfriend, at Kensington Palace. Here's how the roommate deal will supposedly go down. When Prince William and Kate move into their new, lavish apartment at the Palace, Prince Harry will turn their old digs into a "love nest" of sorts for him and Cressida and they can all reside together in a compound as one big, happy family.
Or not.
OMG. If you were Kate Middleton, would you honestly warm up to the idea of your brother-in-law and his flavor of the month shacking up on the same premises as you, your husband -- and your newborn baby?
(Um, I don't think so.)
Honestly, I can't think of anything worse than having your younger, party-hardy in-laws all up in your grill when you're trying to adjust to life as new parents.
And forget about the new baby thing for a minute -- I'm not sure having family members as direct neighbors is a good idea in the first place. Sure, it's nice if they're in the same town so you can get together often and support each other and all that good stuff -- but would you really want your sibling living right next door?
Hold on, don't answer that. This is Prince Harry we're talking about, and I'm thinking he's probably a pretty cool dude to hang around with. I'm not sure about Cressida, but I'd be down with borrowing a cup of sugar from Harry for sure. (And I'm sure he keeps the wine chiller well stocked too. Score.)
But I gotta go with my gut on this one -- I highly doubt this report is true. And if by some chance it is, something tells me there's no way Queen Elizabeth will let Harry move his girlfriend onto royal territory, or at least not anytime soon. (The nude Vegas partying scandal was embarrassment enough.)
Would you ever want to live next door to a family member?
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Yeah, I don't see this happening. No way is the Queen Mum about to let them live together.
Growing up I lived 2 doors down from my grandparents and my Aunt & Uncle lived across the street. It was great! I absolutely loved it and it makes me sad that we don't live closer to family so my boys can have the experience of "running away" to grandma and grandpa's. My husband and I also live with my brother for a couple years by the end we were ready to live seperately. I do miss it because I don't get to see him as often anymore. Every time I see a house go up for sale in my neighborhood I tell him about it.
At one point in my life, pretty much my whole family (maternal and paternal) all lived in the same street or same neighborhood. It was soooo fun.
They would never encounter each other...and i dont think william and kate will have trouble adjusting as new parents..all that staff.


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Library History
The Ilsley Public Library has a colorful history that dates back to the 19th Century. We have several timelines to illustrate this history. The first provides a brief glimpse of the major events that have shaped the library over the years. The other timelines provide more detailed information from institutional records, which portrays not only the development of Ilsley Public Library, but also of libraries in general and their relationship to small-town life in America.
- Library History — 1800s
- Library History — 1900 to 1950
- Library History — 1953 to 1999
- Library History — 2000 to Present
Brief Timeline
1848 - Middlebury Reading Association organized. This group of men subscribed to most of the available periodicals of the area. Later known as the Middlebury Lyceum.
1866 - Ladies Library Association formed to establish and maintain a library for their membership 60 women each paid $2.00 in dues and elected Mrs. Abby Beckwith president and Mrs. Sophia Stewart, vice-president.
1870 - Library on the 3rd floor in the Buttolph Block.
1887 - Library moved to the 2nd floor of the present Hubbard Insurance Co.
1911 - Library became public as the Town and Ladies Library Association co-operate.
1924 - Dedication of the present building, a gift of Colonel and Mrs. Silas A. Ilsley.
1966 - Friends of the Library organized Dr. Stephen Freeman was first president.
1972 - The Ladies Library Association transferred complete ownership of the library to the Town.
1975 - First addition (elevator and children's room).
1988 - Second addition (north side).
1997 - Library's web site launched.
2002 - Website redesigned.
2003 - Side entrance expanded and circulation and lobby areas significantly renovated.