NigelW

Sorry Mellomama, I am currently engaged in performing acrobatic stunts in a business pilot, balancing full-time work and evening classes. I would be interested in knowing what PM software you guys end up going with and why! Do you know what PM software your competitors use if any?

This is quite encouraging. I have more questions! I am guessing you get calls often from people trying to sell you software. How much of an ROI would you need to see to change software? $250 million? The highest I've gone is $300,000 in building specialties. Not as risky. I can't imagine trying to manage that!

Hello Mellomama, If your company was to go in the direction of utilizing the project management side of Deltek Vision, would you prefer online or in-person training? I would get a ton of value out of your perspective because I might be selling to you some day!

Hi! I play CS:GO. Perhaps we can play a game sometime. Steam: rwar667

Good Evening, I've frequented these forums for advice in the past and have found value in what others have had to offer. This time I am interested in connecting with someone who has experience with I.T. startups and is willing to give feedback on where I could improve. I am looking at the construction management consulting market which is growing over the next 5 years and the technology facing younger generations who will be filling jobs in the aging construction industry. Software which is easy to learn, integrate and use can be difficult to find. The cost of earning a certification to operate software can cost thousands of dollars (See Example In Link Below). The initial opportunity is in training customer employees how to use their company software more efficiently in person as opposed to online. Once established as a business, the next opportunity is in creating software and training packages for small-to-large construction management companies. Example of current construction management software: http://www.vicosoftware.com/ Example of software training company fees: http://www.3dtraining.com/asp/admissions_financialaid.aspx A brief description of construction management: Construction project delivery method in which a consultant is hired to advise on overall project constructability, cost and schedule from the conceptual design stage to project completion.

Okay, the definition for the inflation of the money supply makes sense. I have had a very difficult time finding any statistics on Canada's money supply and price indices. There is an equation used to calculate inflation using price indices, but I wonder if inflation can be more accurately measured using the percentage increase/decrease in the money supply. The reason this is important to me is that I've justified a salary adjustment due to inflation. If the percentage increase in the money supply is higher than what is measured in the CPI, then I should be able to ask for a larger raise. Err, maybe I've lost my marbles. Anyone have a clue?

Hello, I'm trying to get to the heart of what inflation is. Inflation is an increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. In Canada, inflation is measured through Price Indices. The price of a group of goods over time can increase or decrease. The percentage in increase is inflation. If the prices of the products used to measure inflation are being lowered through subsizing then the natural increase in price from money printing would be less significant. It's my guess that the higher the inflation is the more subsides are required to keep prices down, especially for products used to measure inflation. Does someone with more economic experience know if I'm on the right track? Do subsidies and money printing go hand in hand?

Hello, Sometime ago someone on the FDR board recommended the movie Don Jon so I thought I'd post a recommendation for a risqué movie myself. This movie is about a sex addicted writer who decides to write an article on a university educated escort.

Hey Carl, I'll give an example of what I mean by construction management. I know of an electrical contracting company that was bought by a construction management company here in Canada. From what I can tell, if the construction management company gets clients then the electrical contracting company, now owned, is guarenteed work as opposed to being a subcontractor to a general contractor. Are you guys a subcontractor? I've applied for the expense through my company already but I feel awful. I feel awful trying to take up your time in explaining this problem. Truth is I have no one else giving me feedback. I have a slightly different view of management in general. It's about managing the process and not the people. If the people make mistakes, it's the process.

Hey shirgall, My "gut" says not to bring up the fact that I was yelled at. I don't feel like I can be totally honest with him because no one else has brought it up and I don't know how to. Is it ideal to like your manager? Hey Carl, I assumed that for an employer to even want to fund my education I would already have to be an employee. I am not confident in my ability to negotiate something like that in an interview, but have you ever seen someone swing that? Yeah, my profile picture is an interior elevation symbol. I have a background working for a subconsultant and subcontractor and intend on getting into construction management. Would you happen to know about construction management?

Good Evening, I am posting here, in the Self Knowledge topic group, because I am unsure of where else to post it. I seldom post but often I listen to shows and donate. Aside from that, I place a lot of value on what FDR has offered me and in this case I am looking for advice. I need funding for when I technical school in three months in the evenings for my degree which is job related. The program includes an internship and I want to take it at a different company...because I want to work somewhere else entirely and I have not told my current employer that. Option 1: My current employer has agreed to fund 50% of my tuition backed by a signed conditional agreement for repayment if I fail to complete the program. Nothing has been signed yet. My Grandfather has agreed to help me financially if I can't pay for the other half. Option 2: Get a student loan. I will be able to cover most of the costs with the loan and the rest will be covered by my day job. Option 1 would be great if I intended on staying at my current job, but I don't because, aside from the lack of mentorship, I was yelled at when I first started with no mention of it to this day and my coworkers joke about child abuse (No HR Dept.). I'm certain that Option 2 will put me in a better position to move on because I will not be depending on my current employer for resources when I make my move while in school... because damn, that would be awkward. "Please continue to pay for my schooling while I add value to someone elses company". Yeaaahhh... no. Can I be more reasonable in this situation? Regards, Nigel

I'm glad that I asked first

Is someone willing to help me understand how to make wise career decisions?

There may be very good reasons for avoiding confrontation. To make forgiving and forgetting past abuse though... I recently brought up me being pushed down the stairs by my grand father to my grand father. He said things like "if I can't remember, how did it happen?" and "maybe you deserved it?" But you just did bring up in a past post that avoiding people may be wise. If a girl has a lot of tattoos can someone reasonably draw any conclusions from that? I see. Calling abusive methods for getting secondary gains a virtue is cowardly. It's not that secondary gains are evil. It's the justification of abuse that is... am I right? Well, as long as she thinks there is conspiracy against her she will never be able to address her fear of failure. That makes sense.

I don't even know why I bothered to post this.

This may be annoying but this is a little too abstract for me. Can you give me a few examples of someone being cowardly?

I want to see if I follow you. Healthier is a comparison. I would define values as preferences. I prefer to be healthy compared to unhealthy. The way that you're using the term principled action would lead to preferring to live a moral life as opposed to an immoral life. If being courageous is honesty in action, then what is cowardice? I don't know how to use this term in comparison to the definition that you've given. Thank you for recommending the podcast. I found some connection to what Stefan was saying. Mainly, assuming that everything you do is right as being the grappling hook that allows you to climb to the other side of "I know nothing". Another thing that I found valuable was him pointing out that crazy people are certain about a lot of things, even though they have no clue. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaha!

Hey Kevin, can you give an example of a principled action and an unprincipled action? Maybe I am unclear as to what the goal of being honest is. I listened to the youtube video that you linked and I agree that there is value in showing people that speaking the truth can be done. I doubt that I would have avoided a mess of a life if I did not swan dive into the rabbit hole of self-knowledge. I also get value out of someone affirming that the struggle never ends because I've had the idea that if I am honest that my life will get easier and I will not have to deal with dishonest people again. I've noticed a lack of integrity in the people that I work with. From child abusers gloating about hitting their children and management taking financial advantage of consultant missteps. I see little value in serving these types of people and I don't know what to do.

My intent is to change something in my life and I am more comfortable defining the terms than talking about the real issue. Fool-heartiness, an over application of courage, is also anti-virtue because excess of restraint or cowardice is anti-virtue and courage is the opposite of cowardice. Applying one standard to one virtue while ignoring the other is not valid. By valid I mean logical or consistent with reality. At the same time, cowardice has it's use. Coward sounds like a name used by a losing team to describe an opponent who retreats for their benefit. Is someone who does not talk to their family a coward? Are they cowering? Is this avoidance a bad thing? Is avoiding abusive people bad? From what I have experienced, cowardice has it's place. It's not true to say that all cowardice is bad because if not talking to abusive people is avoiding them then you are a coward. If my parents call me a coward for not talking to them, then they maybe right, but who gives a fuck? Cowardice has it's place. Since this such a smart crowd, I mean that not in a patronizing or sarcastic manor, you could probably guess what the issue is...

... and why? Why is courage a virtue and can cowardice be a virtue as well?

Addicted is not an action and I do not know if I can define quitting. Perhaps if someone stops playing basketball, they can say that they have quit playing. In the definition I did say "action". Well I don't know what your childhood was like, but I took the burden as my own.... which we don't have to get into right now.

An oversight, yes. I meant to say child abuse in both sentences. I recognize the value in defining moral and immoral actions but I am not talking about morality. The value in determining will comes from the fact that some people say one thing and do another. Defining "will" or chosen behavior as what someone does or doesn't do is valuable in determining their level of integrity. I cannot validly assign responsibility if I do not know the will of someone. If I derive someone's will from what they do and not what they say, I can avoid people who have little or no integrity. "You caused us to spank you as a child." This is attributing the will to the child. "We chose to spank you as a child." Attributing will or chosen behavior to the parents identifies them as the cause of their own actions. By attributing will I mean validly identifying the cause of an action.

Definitions: Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child or children. Peaceful parenting is not child abuse, therefore if the adult abuses a child they are not a peaceful parent. I am willing to accept the definition of “will” being measured by what one does and compared to the same action not taken. If someone crosses the road, they have the will to cross the road compared to someone who does not cross the road. Someone who does not cross the road does not have the will to cross the road, compared to someone who does cross the road. Strength is defined: able to withstand great force or pressure. Weak is defined: liable to break or give way under pressure. Arguments: 1) Someone who is willfully strong does what requires great force or pressure. Someone who is willfully weak breaks or gives way under pressure (does not necessarily mean that the resulting action is abuse). 2) Someone who abuses a child has the will to do so, compared to a peaceful parent. Someone who peacefully parents, does not have the will to abuse a child compared someone who does abuse a child. 3) It would seem that peaceful parents, with these definitions, are weak-willed compared to abusive parents. Abusive parents are stronger-willed than peaceful parents in child abuse. Which is a good thing, why would you want to be good at evil? 4) Someone who responds to the argument that "child abuse is evil" by no longer abusing children is stronger-willed than someone who continues to abuse children.

I can't think of anything productive to add, but I like this thread. I like it a lot.

Conditional as in "if A, then B"? If it wasn't then you could get away with murder and claim love because there is no link between B and A. "If you love me, then you wouldn't murder me." But I don't know if people would murder each other without conditional statements or theories.