FOOTBALL HUSBANDS

Once again the title says it all.  Some of these NFL players are fooling themselves to think that it is not time to hang up the cleats and move on to the board room or whatever major you considered other than football.

It is astonishing to me how often you here sob stories some valid and others just absurd of a professional athlete that could not transition from the game to the real world.  In this case I’m not talking coaching even though that can be a fruitful option but that is only going to work for a few.  Makes you wonder, what they got a degree in if they have no awareness of what is next in one’s life.

For example, a business major should have some business in mind that they want to venture off into.  An education major a teaching career or a journalist major a broadcasting career and the list goes on and on.  But not in the real world, these men and women are finding regular sales jobs that pay pennies on the dollar in comparison to what they once made.

After watching the Kendra show it made me even wonder further, why would Hank think that he had to drag his family from city to city in hopes of him getting signed to a team when his wife actually is the celebrity and major bread winner at home?  Does a male’s, man hood lessen with his income or is he the same man no matter what?  But beyond that can he lower his pride-o-meter one bit to see it right.  His career may have been over 2yrs ago but since he married into some money it was lingering a little longer.

Even in his prime he was not a legitimate “premiere” receiver, he was still good enough to make several squads but no to make the big money.  In all the preparations that these athletes make for their respective seasons do they take the time to develop outside interests that can one day replace athletics?  From day one they know that it can be over in a moment’s notice due to injuries and a slew of other reasons.  Some even seems perplexed at the thought of giving it all up for something that they have never thought twice about setting up before their actual retirement.

In Hanks case he can always move to L.A. and become a Househusband of L.A. or start his own TV series called FOOTBALL HUSBANDS.

IF THE MONEY IS IN CHINESE LEARN IT

Since I’m on a lot of social network sites and forums I see stupid things at a higher rate than most people and have gotten utterly annoyed by this one.  United States citizens are the only people on this planet that have a problem with this one.  If you do business in or with a foreign country why would you not consider learning that foreign countries language of choice?

How arrogant can you be that you fell your language is so great that everyone should learn yours and you not learn theirs.  It’s not like they came here to make money but you went there to make money.  If their money is in Chinese then you better learn to speak Chinese.  We all say that we only see green than learn how to count and read their green.

Then the same people complain about getting beat out of money and how unethical the businesses are overseas.  As if, they themselves have never beat any consumer or person on a poorly negotiated transaction, when the opportunity presented itself.  No country has a law that takes into consideration ignorance let alone negligence, which is obvious in this case.

With products like Rosetta Stone and so many others there is simply no excuse for not making a serious effort to learn foreign languages, especially if you are going to be doing business in or whit that country.  The reward outweighs the risk astronomically seeing that there really is no draw back in wowing some foreign interest with learning their language as a sign of commitment.

90 DEGREES IN NOVEMBER

LOL I just can’t believe what the weather is like in So Cal right now.  When we should be breaking out the jackets the chicks out here are jumping back into the bathing suits they never got to wear in one of the coldest summers in history.

I mean we’ve had record breaking heat every day with no exception.  The other day it triple digits in the winter.  The gods must be crazy right.  With all that said I kind of appreciate the bikini clad women prancing around the pools and spas like its mid August.

The only tragedy is that we have gone from cold rainy weather to hot in the matter of two days and most people are catching colds.  Just think in a few days it will turn back cold and we will have to fight the winter flu season with weakened immune systems.

Even with all of the chances of coming down with the flu I still refuse to take those damn flu shots.  Those things are guaranteed to get you sick and it still may be the wrong strand.  Our medical system is a hoax, but that is for another day and another time.  So get all the Echinacea tea you can find and Vitamin C so you can boost that immune system it’s going to be a long flu season.

BANKS BORROW MONEY

This is not an economic bailout thing that we have seen happen recently in this country.  No this is some concoction some brilliant financial genius came up with many years ago.  To get the public to loan business money without them even knowing that they have loaned the money out.

Now let me show you the greatest hustle that man ever invented.  If you give the bank X amount of dollars they in turn give you a fraction of that money back in the form of interest but pennies on the dollar.  After they get you to give them the money they in turn use it to purchase commodities and loan money to consumers.  The bank charges in most cases on an average of 10% but actually pay out less that 1% then charges you fees to access the monies that you have loaned them.  This is worst than loan sharking.

Believe it or not we have become totally dependent on the banking system as it is; we cannot and will not survive economically without it.  The genius part is that it has balanced the economic state of our generation.  Who knew that robbing people of their hard earned money then finding a way for them to pay for it would create stability in a chaotic world full of multiple currencies?

I’m not saying take your money out of banks and put them into a mattress.  What I am saying is find a way to pool your resources and get the banks to loan you back some of the money they have borrowed from you.

MONEY DOES NOT EXIST

Another blog by myself that is pretty self explanatory to those in the “know.”  Believe it or not we still barter in pretty much the same way that our ancestors did it.  In our time it is just more centralized based on a countries financial standing.

A dollar is the same denare of times past or shekel of biblical times or plain sea shell during more primitive eras.  Once you come to that reality you can understand the deeper meaning of what money is.  It is nothing more than a very popular an instantly liquid promissory note.

Now this blog can end here but that would not be consistent to how I do things so let me expound on what I have seen (LOL Songs of Solomon reference).

Money is mildly different from any other promissory note like homes, cars or anything else similar.  The variance is the speed of the escrow that comes with the others or the transfer of value.  With the others you have to verify the authenticity of ownership outright where money is “finders keepers losers weepers.”

This is the reason that so many get lost in the phenomenon of inflation and depreciation of the value of money.  It also keeps us from understanding how banks and other similar institutions function on a global scale.  They turn money into a commodity much like homes and not stock.

CAN SEE THE MONEY IF YOUR BLIND

Life is an uphill battle both physically and mentally, many of us lose the battle before the fight is ever underway.  It amazes me how Americans are not taught any school how to survive in the real world.  Meaning that there are no job application classes in High School or conflict resolution or anything else needed to make an honest living in the job market.

They tell you to study Algebra and Trigonometry or write multiple pages of dribble on essays.  Some offer business classes that study antiquated case studies that place businesses into a microscope and fail to address real world scenarios.  Things like the allocation of stocks for an S or C corporation, even why and how to utilize effectively both types of stock allocations.  Many business owners began only knowing the use of the fiduciary stocks and not the true power or voting stocks.  Hostile takeovers begin the day that you sign your Articles of Corporation not when some wealthy company walks in and strips your baby out of your hands.

Making money is the goal of every business but it is the last course you usually will take.  They want to teach you the history of a business sector that you have researched extensively for several years then tell you how operations work only to get into the real world and find out something different.

I remember taking my Real Estate and Insurance exams and finding out how the laws were derived and who set up the first legal documents.  But the actual negotiation part of the jobs where you make the money is totally left out.  How do you get the consumer to say yes I want to buy from or work with your company and I will pay top dollar.

Then they charge you half a quarter of a million dollars and you can’t make the money needed to pay off student loans.  One thing for sure I thank God for the hood and all my old friends that taught me how to hustle and make money “do what it do.”

I would venture to say that 90% of all failing businesses have forgotten how to make money.  Meaning that we are not printing less money, instead we have printed more yet many cannot find a way to be profitable.  If you can’t see the money it is for certain that you cannot make it.  So use your other senses like the rat and find the cheese that they have moved.

ANOTHER CRAPPY BLOGGER

Let me start by saying this is a factual statement and not my opinion.

No apologies will be made on this one, LOL, seeing that most of the top bloggers have no business giving expert opinion on what they have become popular for.  Just because you buy something as a consumer does not make you an expert.  That is in music, tech, business, sex, psychology or whatever else it is that many have delved into.  There is almost a sense of backwardness that the actual experts are on the comments arguing their points of views, which by the way are fact driven and not just some rant about personal feelings.

Now I do not profess to be the smartest man in the world but some of things that I have read on bloggish articles and dictionaries are appalling.  To think that mainstream America has embraced these blogs as expert commentary.

Just because you understand SEO and tag lines you have become the expert at what is and what is not the best product on the market.  The reasoning behind it is not even concrete.  Can they even tell the difference between a real or fake.  Probably not but they can install some software that drives hits to their sites.  To think that this is the direction that even the press has embraced, telling watered down and emotional stories that lead to speculation instead of truth.

At least I state that my blogs are opinion but when I do delve into some expertise of mine I will reference what makes my point of view valid.  Note I did not say expert, you are judge an expert by peers and not self affirmation.

What does a 16 year old know about anything of great substance anyway?  Not to say there aren’t any exceptions to the rules but this is the going trend of the day.  I’ve read articles (blogs) about how to make money doing something that the writer has not done but knows someone who shared a testimonial with them.  We all have read articles (blogs) on industry standards from a person that has just got into the business that they have become an expert in overnight.  Then we wonder why it does not work for us.

Business used to be about finding the winning formula.  You start with A then you move to B, follow the letters all the way down to Z then you become the master of your trade.  Once you’ve mastered a thing you mentor and duplicate your formula.  When you are tired and grey you sit down and write a book to share what you know and love to others that may be struggle or in need of direction.  Now industries are ran by novices who have studied books on subject matter with no job experience and we ignorantly buy them and make them rich.

Were I come from young people are told to be quiet and wait their turn to speak.  Now-a-days it is the other way around.  The wisdom has left the building and given way to pure speculation.