Try Seaboard Electronics in New Rochelle New York.......brrrrr...I counted 23 stripped or currently being stripped cars/trucks on the SIDE OF THE FREEWAY as I passed em from JFK to the factory.
Mid 1980s......and I couldnt carry CCW there....BRRRR
I went to lunch and a pickpocket got his hand smashed in the door to the restaurant when he fumbled his trick. Dont know how that happened...shrug
I never ever nevernever went back there. Nononono!
Gunner
I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)
New Rochelle's average household income is $199,061. The average home price is over $752,000. It's one of the most desired towns in the US, with a crime rate less than half of the average.
What you drove through to get there, in Queens and the Bronx, is the New York equivalent of Taft, California. That's why you saw the stripped cars.
What probably threw you off your feed is the lack of garbage heaps and broken-down pickups in the front yards. It doubtless looked like alien territory.
Some larger hospitals are still doing OK. The seminars they buy are touchy feely stuff about customer relations, coping skills. They also buy seminars on how to deal with regulatory requirements.
I also see a few independants serving niche markets to satisfy governmental requirements, like doing air quality surveys at businesses; nuclear medicine physicists doing the statistical work for hospital radiology departments and OP radiation centers.
I don't know if any of them are getting rich this way, but they're making a living at it.
New Rochelle is one of those places where the averages don't tell the whole story. For a few years I did some National Engineers' Week demos in the two middle schools in New Rochelle--twice at Albert Leonard (gritty) and once at Isaac Young (idyllic).
The contrast between the schools, and the kids, was pretty stark.
Estimated median household income in 2008: $59,359 (it was $55,513 in
2000) New Rochelle: $59,359 New York: $56,033
Estimated per capita income in 2008: $37,933
New Rochelle city income, earnings, and wages data
Estimated median house or condo value in 2008: $607,700 (it was $299,900 in 2000) New Rochelle: $607,700 New York: $318,900
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Thats quite a difference between average income and housing costs..isnt it?
Gunner
I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)
============== One place to start _Small time Operator_ by Bernard B. Kamoroff ISBN0-917510-18-6. available
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Be warned that when I pointed out the following to my more reactionary and/or neocon relatives they almost blew a gasket.
(1) There is no known economic theory, ideology or business model that is optimal in all circumstances and under all conditions. What is optimal in one case may well be marginal in other cases, and counterproductive/suicidial in yet other cases.
(2) With the increasingly rapid changes in technology and social conditions, it is difficult to impossible to draw any useful conclusions from past successes other than the most general, i.e. don't try to borrow yourself rich.
(3) There has been a profound shift in economic structure and organization from an almost autarkic industrial economy to a post industrial service based global economy, and this process is not only ongoing but accelerating in that many of the intelectual/professional activities such as legal, medical, accounting engineering and programming are now being outsourced.
(4) One of the problems with high line seminars is that you must tell the customer/client what they want to hear, which in too many cases is a corporation looking for a quick cheap "fix" and not the employee(s) setting in the room taking notes.
Good luck on your efforts. You have a well done web page.
Some suggestions:
(1) Include some sort of webmail on your web page. Unless you like spam, you will need to incorporate some sort of captcha test.
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(2) Consider adding a Spanish and possibly other language versions of your webpage.
(3) Examine the Keller-Williams business model [real estate] to see how independent agents can flourish in a co-operative environment.
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-- Unka George (George McDuffee) .............................. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).
Well, that's kind of my point -- I had things all thought out for boom times, I _think_ I have things sort of adjusted for now, but I wanted the views of others.
Except, that the _really_ high end is getting 'sourced' right back to the US of A. Most of the design engineers that I know of who have an internet presence have at least gotten inquiries from the far east.
There are numerous signs that in at least some sectors the "outsourcing" is tapering off, and not just because the 'out' end is getting saturated. The two trends that close friends of mine have seen in engineering, and that I'm starting to see cited in the press ("The Economist"), is that (a) the foreign engineers know damn well that they're in demand, and are quite successfully demanding more money, bringing the cost of using them closer to parity with using US talent, and (b) US engineers are better than Indian or Chinese engineers.
The trend that has me laughing my tail off when it doesn't have me shaking my head (or shaking in my boots) is that the corner offices are moving to India and China, too. Which on the one hand makes me want to point and laugh at those CEOs that were gleefully laying off my compatriots ten years ago, but on the other hand makes we worry about who's gonna be left to hire me.
Not that I'm entirely disagreeing with you -- just that when you do your extrapolation you can't just look at the position (bad) you're in and the speed you're going (pointing to worse) -- you also need to look at the level of acceleration (pointing to better, or at least less bad). Basically, take your own advice from (2), but as a reason not to necessarily predict gloom and doom.
The seminars are pointed at working engineers, which is part of my problem: it's not a lot of feel-good fooey for the front office, it's solid improvement for the line engineer. Ten years ago this sort of thing was an easy sell to the front offices. Today it isn't -- so I need to position myself such that I can appeal not to the corporate budget, but to the individual budget -- and still make money.
ISTM you're in an economic dead band right now. Obamacare and such have driven up the cost of being in business and of having employees considerably, so there'll be a big drive to automate and eliminate workers.
OTOH, everyone's afraid make capital investments just now for fear of what's to come. Demand's weak because workers are afraid for their jobs. (correctly) They aren't spending, which keeps demand weak and companies from investing in increasing production.
It's a pickle.
Anyway, the lack of demand is temporary. Once demand returns, you're golden--the pressure to automate and eliminate jobs is very strong and long term.
OTOH the sharply increased costs of employing people might benefit you now--it means some outfits will need productivity increases (i.e., automation-related services) to survive. They'll have to reduce costs / workforces. Those clients could keep you busy today if you could identify them.
Move the training venues from Hotels and such to something much more like traditional brick and mortar school houses. Always consider the transportation issues, consider how to package for telepresence.
Well I was expecting that you would at least show a landing page or so. Not that you would want to see metalheads generating money for you with click-throughs, of course. :-)
I am doing something similar with
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It's the first in what I expect will be a number of web sites that filter features attached to items in a particular domain.
I scrape data from various locations on the web, then reformat it in a way that I can present it to users based on the features they select.
I find this whole process quite compelling for a number of reasons. But I won't bore you with the details unless you have an interest.
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