Pay is falling, benefits are vanishing, and no one's job is secure. How companies are making the era of the temp more than temporary.
On a recent Tuesday morning, single mom Tammy DePew Smith woke up in her tidy Florida townhouse in time to shuttle her oldest daughter, a high school freshman, to the 6:11 a.m. bus. At 6:40 she was at the desk in her bedroom, starting her first shift of the day with LiveOps, a Santa Clara (Calif.) provider of call-center workers for everyone from Eastman Kodak (EK) and Pizza Hut (YUM) to infomercial behemoth Tristar Products. She's paid by the minute—25 cents—but only for the time she's actually on the phone with customers.
By 7:40, Smith had grossed $15.
When explorer and longevity investigator Dan Buettner guided me into the Costa Rican rain forest last year in preparation for an Oprah show on longevity, each of the centenarians I met there greeted me with the customary "Pura vida" — variously translated as "Pure life," "Full of life" or even "This is living!" Those are all fair ways of describing these remarkably vibrant people, who are indeed living the pure life. We'd all do well to learn their secrets.
Greed is good. Embrace it. Love it. Live it. In fact, greed may be the one thing that can save us. Don’t believe me? Greed was the foundation for this country. The brave souls who risked their life to settle in a new country did so out of self interest. Our forefathers recognized the importance of self-interest in the Declaration of Independence where they emphasized our unalienable right to pursue happiness.
I wanted to share this article I found interesting on Super bowl and social media. It is the wave of the future, happening now, and why we need to be ahead of the curve. Like many questions at Market America World Conference, you need to decide if you want to live in the future or the past? ~Keep Growing JR
How do you describe what transpired at the World Conference? It’s difficult to articulate or put into words; you just had to be there. If you were there you know what I mean. If you were not, well…you don’t know what you don’t know. Without a doubt, there were many magic moments created. It was pure high energy, passion and substance and new releases and advances demonstrating that we are leading the parade in online shopping and Internet marketing, and that we have the opportunity of the future.
