I wondered. why only 30's and 40's? That's limited to certain skill and income ranges - absent a silver spoon I could do it because I chose a profession and it's risks with a twenty year retirement contract. My atttude was do it while you can and not regret it when you are too old." And then one that only demanded a certain minimum amount of time each year or so and retired at 43 with two breaks and then 65 and 65. Got to see much of the world including the Antarctic. After retirement the first destination was Easter Island and Robinson Crusoe Island. Quite interesting then up the coast of SA and picked up the Galapagos. I became one of the few to go all the way around and not write a book about it. That's a joke.

One needs little overtime if you can get some of the gravy jobs like standby surgeon. Who often bill for much more than one standby situation at the same time. If none are needed the sky is limited only by the surgery list. If called to fill in the next on the list inherits. Another is the Xray readings people who do nothing but spend 10 seconds (I timed it once) as the second opinion reader. Next time you see that on your total medical bill imagine that dollar amount times six times sixty for an hours income. Normally the staff int he xray clinc set up the screens in advance. Now the new way is outsourcing the x-ray readings to India via the internet to cut costs...next time you see your hospital bill see if the costs have gone down.

why should they?

Remember the parable of the two brothers? What profit the risk taker when the profit is confiscated.?"

My old Vo-Ag teacher solved the riddle. He found out Japan had no way of producing sufficient cattle feed especially for the famed Kobe Beef. He found that a certain area in the west produced the best hay but could not find a decent market. Then he noticed both were near the ocean one by the Columbia river...He also noticed car carriers from Japan operated on a tight schedule and went back empty.

He found a Japanese business type and piroposed filling the empty and easily cleaned spaces with hay in either cubicle or the giant round bales which he would provide FOB to the Columbia River docks.The shipping company welcomed the extra revenue and he talked them into doing it for overhead costs one way. His Japanese partner took care of that end and the Japanese beef had a steady supply of munchies. The farmers were happy so it was the old find a need an fill it solution. As I recall the shipping company paid the longshoreman who went from unloading cars to loading hay. From school teacher to millionaire in a few short years.


Someone else said why not bring Kobe beef production to the source of the food supply... it's now raised near the market area in the USA. But with out the profit that makes effort worth while ....he would still have been teaching school..oh yes and he gave many of his students jobs in the peak summer months...

The equipment would have been otherwise idle.

Anymore the exception rather than the rule. He said once his main advantage was very few employees. The farmers, transport workers (truck and shipping) all paid for those costs through their own companies. One of his sons had the abilties to check the hay for nourishment standards as one example. The son lessened the cost of his salary plus a substantial raise by convincing the Japanese they should do their own evaluation before the hay was loaded and he in turn would use their methods to assist the farmers in their production standards.

Just a matter of making pieces of an unseen puzzle fit. Serendipity and Synergy. the sum of the parts were worth more than the parts separated. Providing no interference. that subtract value. Synergy minus VAT for example.

Well some body has to make the bichi burgers and you can't get more PC or ethnic than that. What wlse are they good for?

My parents when they were alive asked why I didn't work in my degree field of Political Science and History. I remember choking back the laughter....my sister answered the question for me. "He can't afford to take the pay cut." I was at the time an Able Bodied Seaman working deck on a frieghters and tankers. When i calmed down and wiped the tears i said, "Seriously?" What's a degree got do with making money? At the time when things were fat in the industry I was working 16 hour days and actually working 13 seven days a week for four months plus straight through...union rules. sundays worked eight paid for 12. I worked eight months plus and drew unemployment of $500 to $700 every week the other two months with full medical coverage on or off the job. i'm trying to imagine a job in political science and history that pays that well. so my answer was, "Educations is for my own personal pleasure and use. it's a way to spend my off duty time." which led to working on my boat learning navigation which led to rediscovering science and mathematics.Did you know that navigation is just spherical trigonometry in motion and quite poetic in it's own right." But you have to settle for your skill levels and for some burger flipping is the limit as is sociology.

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Neat idea but they lost that right in 1865. Care to explain why?