3D Printing: Make anything you want

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Technology and jobs: Coming to an office near you

The effect of today’s technology on tomorrow’s jobs will be immense—and no country is ready for it

By: The Economist

Technology and Your Job

INNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers were swept aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were.

For those, including this newspaper, who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such churn is a natural part of rising prosperity. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more productive society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was employed on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not consigned to joblessness, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has shrunk, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.

Can You Really Make Money In Direct Sales?

Reposted and Credits: Nancy Collamer, M.S. is a career coach, speaker and author of Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit From Your Passions During Semi-Retirement. Her website is MyLifestyleCareer.com; on Twitter she is @NancyCollamer.

One of the most popular questions asked about flexible and part-time work options is: “Can I really earn a living working in direct sales?”

It’s a great question, since these days you can sell everything from gourmet food to financial products in this $30 billion industry. (Direct sales simply means offering products directly to a customer away from a fixed retail location.)

What Direct Selling Offers

A few big direct-selling pluses: Pretty much anyone can enter the field. You can set your own hours, taking time off to travel or visit the grandkids, if you want. Start-up costs are often minimal. And it can be fun.

In her new book, Second-Act Careers, I offer up the story of Karen Pagliurolo, a direct sales superstar. A former nurse and stay-at-home mom, she’s now a regional manager and sales consultant for the high-end direct sales fashion company Etcetera, hosting trunk shows four times a year in the basement of her home in Winchester, Mass. Pagliurolo wouldn’t reveal her exact income, but told me she’s “compensated well.”

Most people who go into direct sales aren’t as successful, though, and some aren’t cut out for it, as she'll explain in a bit.

Kabayan Mag-ingat Ka

A message to all Filipinos aspiring to work in Canada or even on other countries. Not all were fortunate. Please be careful.

EDMONTON

THINGS TO DO IN EDMONTON, ALBERTA

Reblog from travelalberta.com

 

Eskimos

Pro sports mania

Join the local fan frenzy at a live Oilers hockey game, or an Eskimos football game, or catch the best of bull riding and steer wrestling at the Canadian Finals Rodeo. 

 

 

Tablets as the New Ordering Servers In The Near Future

Chili's And Applebee's To Install Tablets At Every Table: The Ordering of the Future

Ordering of the future: dessert by tablet. (Credit: Ziosk)

Technology: To Change Delivery Drivers Soon.

 Amazon To Introduce Flying Drone Delivery Service In 2015

 AMAZON PRIME AIR

Founder and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has announced a game-changing service in the works: a delivery service carried out by automated, flying drones.

The innovative service, to be called ‘Amazon Prime Air’, features product delivery by actual flying machines—the ‘octocopter’ drones pick up packages directly from the warehouse, and fly out to deliver them.

“I know this looks like science fiction, but it’s not,” said Bezos. Each drone can deliver a five-pound package in about half-an-hour, directly to the recipient’s doorstep.

The drones are powered by electricity, and are a greener alternative to driving trucks. “You give them coordinates and which GPS locations to fly to, and they take off and fly,” said Bezos, who is optimistic about finalizing this project by 2015. 

What is a Pyramid Scheme?

pyr·a·mid scheme

noun

1. 1.

   a form of investment (illegal in the US and elsewhere) in which each paying participant recruits two further participants, with returns being given to early participants using money contributed by later ones.
   
   
   
   

   
   

According to Federal Trade Commision, it goes this way: