8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
Nov 26th 2015, 8:16 pm
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That us what I have been doing most of the night and working on a website to see how I can do building one......Using wix free templates for it and a free domain.
Looks like for Whistler there is at least 3 dog walking companies. 1 appears to be medium sized with multiple employees, and one looks like it might one person, but those both do offer a variety of services.
The 3rd looks like a teenager/college age adult doing it on his own.
There could be more, but that is all I found with google.
Squamish appears to have at least 5 all offering a variety of services, none appear to be single person operations.
Squamish may or may not have room for another. Who knows.
Nov 26th 2015, 8:23 pm
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You can justify your defeatism any way you wish. It makes no difference to my life at all. If a physically disabled person was constantly whining about things in their life they believed were shite and asking how they could change them, and the good members of this forum offered advice, which they always immediately rejected, I would comment exactly the same way that I replied to you.
I am physically disabled. Life isn't a bed of roses for me either but, when I ask anyone for advice, I don't go out of my way to reject it.
Have a look at the posts people have made to this thread and look at how you responded.
I feel like sticking a fork in my eyes every time I read one of your whining posts. I can only imagine what prospective employers think of you when you attend an interview.
You constantly complain about how you don't have time to do this, or time to do that, yet you appear to spend hours on this site.
I am physically disabled. Life isn't a bed of roses for me either but, when I ask anyone for advice, I don't go out of my way to reject it.
Have a look at the posts people have made to this thread and look at how you responded.
I feel like sticking a fork in my eyes every time I read one of your whining posts. I can only imagine what prospective employers think of you when you attend an interview.
You constantly complain about how you don't have time to do this, or time to do that, yet you appear to spend hours on this site.
I didn't really reject anything, I just don't know how to implement a lot of it to make it work, that is where the biggest struggle is, taking an idea and turning it into something.
It's incredibly difficult to function when your brain isn't functioning correctly and never will.
People wouldn't expect someone with lungs not functioning correctly to run a marathon, and same applies to mental illness, you can't except people with mental health issues to see the world and act the same way as someone with a normal brain will.
Borderline is one of the most severe and life altering mental health issue, and unlike other mental illness there is no medication, no real medical treatment at all. Only thing that has shown to help reduce the severity and frequency of issues is DBT therapy, but it's not covered by MSP, so those of us who can't afford it, don't have access to it, and have to try and do what we can on our own, with what we have available to us.
Trust me, nobody would choose to live feeling this way, nor continue if it were simple to fix by just thinking differently or reading self help books, it requires professional help, unfortunately the way the current medical system works, that professional help is not a covered service, and is pricey and well not everyone has the large sums of money needed to pay for it.
http://www.futurity.org/scans-show-w...in-borderline/
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science...ionships.shtml
"compared with healthy controls, people who have BPD display extensive cortical and subcortical abnormalities in brain structure and function.1 These anomalous patterns have been detected across all 4 available neuroimaging techniques. "
http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/hom...d15566bde.html
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Nov 26th 2015, 8:44 pm
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
I couldn't compete on price for raw food doing it to order and people wan't selection so you have to carry several product lines. Buying retail from a butcher (we have none here, so would have to seek a farmer) would be too high priced. I would need to keep the final price in the 3-7 per pound range to be competitive with the existing companies.
It's the machinery that is costly, gotta grind up the meat/bones and organs, you can't just use cuts of meat, you literally take chickens for example whole (minus feathers) and send them through a processor to grind it all up and grind the bone small enough.
I am working on the dog walking thing, so far up to about 1,000 needed for start up (insurance, business cards, web hosting/website) but still need to see what a business license will cost and if its something that can be run out of home.
Technically not allowed to run a business from this place according to the lease, but not sure if a dog walking service that takes places completely off site, would be considered a home business.
I find some of the info, but I just don't understand it all. I need to find someone who does, I don't understand if I need to get a GST number and if so, how does one deal with the GST, does one need to charge GST or PST and so on. Confuses me, it's all very vague and not easy to understand.
Eventually will take a first aid class to be able to compete, since it seems to be the in thing to have, all the dog walking companies have it, so can't be the odd one out and compete effectively.
Appears they all use a marketing company as well, not sure how to market a new business on my own, not like there would be a store front, so I assume most will have to come from people doing google searches, and my attempts to hand out flyers and posting flyers around on community boards.
I haven't even started and I am stressing already....
I'll see how it goes, will take a few months to get it up and running, have to save some money for the very basics, the insurance I was going to skip but after research it appears that is just asking for trouble and financial liability and so it's a must have, especially since ICBC isn't likely to cover dog injuries in the event of a car accident.
I do worry that without having a passion, desire and interest in dog walking it will be doomed from the start, but who knows, it may work out fine and I might like it.
I can't compete with existing on availability since I won't have employees and it will just be me, but I figure I can manage 2 large dogs at once and 3 smaller ones at once.
If I can get $17 per 90 mins (I priced lower then the existing since I can't offer the same level of services.) I only need 2 dogs a day to make it worthwhile.
This time of year, I can probably schedule something like 8am pick up, 10am drop off. 11am pick up, 1pm drop off, 2pm pick up and 4pm drop off.
3 walks per day, if I got 2 dogs per walk would be about 100/day if I did the math right. Minus minimal daily costs, would be mostly profit since there isn't a while lot of recurring costs, insurance, business license is all annual, so monthly cost wise would be minimal.
I am trying to market it as a more niche service where dogs get more personal attention since the others take up to 6 or 7 dogs, but I can't handle or transport that many dogs safely, so won't even try to do the same.
I doubt it will ever get big, or bring in a ton of money, but better then nothing.
This is all assuming I don't find a job, if I find a job, I will have to put it on hold as I won't be able to juggle a job and dog walking, not enough time in the day for both.
I'd be happier doing something I have interests in, but no possible way to do that, impossible to start small in those interests. I just have bad interests when it comes to making money....
Have to see if people will want to deal with the quiet weird dog walker who doesn't have people skills, I really struggle dealing with people in any capacity so it's a concern and worry as well.
Time will tell.
It's the machinery that is costly, gotta grind up the meat/bones and organs, you can't just use cuts of meat, you literally take chickens for example whole (minus feathers) and send them through a processor to grind it all up and grind the bone small enough.
I am working on the dog walking thing, so far up to about 1,000 needed for start up (insurance, business cards, web hosting/website) but still need to see what a business license will cost and if its something that can be run out of home.
Technically not allowed to run a business from this place according to the lease, but not sure if a dog walking service that takes places completely off site, would be considered a home business.
I find some of the info, but I just don't understand it all. I need to find someone who does, I don't understand if I need to get a GST number and if so, how does one deal with the GST, does one need to charge GST or PST and so on. Confuses me, it's all very vague and not easy to understand.
Eventually will take a first aid class to be able to compete, since it seems to be the in thing to have, all the dog walking companies have it, so can't be the odd one out and compete effectively.
Appears they all use a marketing company as well, not sure how to market a new business on my own, not like there would be a store front, so I assume most will have to come from people doing google searches, and my attempts to hand out flyers and posting flyers around on community boards.
I haven't even started and I am stressing already....
I'll see how it goes, will take a few months to get it up and running, have to save some money for the very basics, the insurance I was going to skip but after research it appears that is just asking for trouble and financial liability and so it's a must have, especially since ICBC isn't likely to cover dog injuries in the event of a car accident.
I do worry that without having a passion, desire and interest in dog walking it will be doomed from the start, but who knows, it may work out fine and I might like it.
I can't compete with existing on availability since I won't have employees and it will just be me, but I figure I can manage 2 large dogs at once and 3 smaller ones at once.
If I can get $17 per 90 mins (I priced lower then the existing since I can't offer the same level of services.) I only need 2 dogs a day to make it worthwhile.
This time of year, I can probably schedule something like 8am pick up, 10am drop off. 11am pick up, 1pm drop off, 2pm pick up and 4pm drop off.
3 walks per day, if I got 2 dogs per walk would be about 100/day if I did the math right. Minus minimal daily costs, would be mostly profit since there isn't a while lot of recurring costs, insurance, business license is all annual, so monthly cost wise would be minimal.
I am trying to market it as a more niche service where dogs get more personal attention since the others take up to 6 or 7 dogs, but I can't handle or transport that many dogs safely, so won't even try to do the same.
I doubt it will ever get big, or bring in a ton of money, but better then nothing.
This is all assuming I don't find a job, if I find a job, I will have to put it on hold as I won't be able to juggle a job and dog walking, not enough time in the day for both.
I'd be happier doing something I have interests in, but no possible way to do that, impossible to start small in those interests. I just have bad interests when it comes to making money....
Have to see if people will want to deal with the quiet weird dog walker who doesn't have people skills, I really struggle dealing with people in any capacity so it's a concern and worry as well.
Time will tell.
What you're doing here is 'analysis paralysis'. All you need to do is print some cards, talk to people, and start walking a few hounds. See if you like it, see if people want your service. Plenty of time to consider courses, insurance, licensing, marketing once you are more established. If you constantly build walls preventing yourself from trying, you won't get anywhere. You'll need to unlearn that habit.
Nov 27th 2015, 12:07 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
How about cornering the market with an Escort Agency?
Nov 27th 2015, 12:08 am
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Nov 27th 2015, 1:48 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
I didn't really reject anything, I just don't know how to implement a lot of it to make it work, that is where the biggest struggle is, taking an idea and turning it into something.
It's incredibly difficult to function when your brain isn't functioning correctly and never will.
People wouldn't expect someone with lungs not functioning correctly to run a marathon, and same applies to mental illness, you can't except people with mental health issues to see the world and act the same way as someone with a normal brain will.
Borderline is one of the most severe and life altering mental health issue, and unlike other mental illness there is no medication, no real medical treatment at all. Only thing that has shown to help reduce the severity and frequency of issues is DBT therapy, but it's not covered by MSP, so those of us who can't afford it, don't have access to it, and have to try and do what we can on our own, with what we have available to us.
Trust me, nobody would choose to live feeling this way, nor continue if it were simple to fix by just thinking differently or reading self help books, it requires professional help, unfortunately the way the current medical system works, that professional help is not a covered service, and is pricey and well not everyone has the large sums of money needed to pay for it.
Scans show what makes a brain 'borderline' - Futurity
NIMH » Borderline Personality Disorder: Brain Differences Related to Disruptions in Cooperation in Relationships
"compared with healthy controls, people who have BPD display extensive cortical and subcortical abnormalities in brain structure and function.1 These anomalous patterns have been detected across all 4 available neuroimaging techniques. "
http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/hom...d15566bde.html
It's incredibly difficult to function when your brain isn't functioning correctly and never will.
People wouldn't expect someone with lungs not functioning correctly to run a marathon, and same applies to mental illness, you can't except people with mental health issues to see the world and act the same way as someone with a normal brain will.
Borderline is one of the most severe and life altering mental health issue, and unlike other mental illness there is no medication, no real medical treatment at all. Only thing that has shown to help reduce the severity and frequency of issues is DBT therapy, but it's not covered by MSP, so those of us who can't afford it, don't have access to it, and have to try and do what we can on our own, with what we have available to us.
Trust me, nobody would choose to live feeling this way, nor continue if it were simple to fix by just thinking differently or reading self help books, it requires professional help, unfortunately the way the current medical system works, that professional help is not a covered service, and is pricey and well not everyone has the large sums of money needed to pay for it.
Scans show what makes a brain 'borderline' - Futurity
NIMH » Borderline Personality Disorder: Brain Differences Related to Disruptions in Cooperation in Relationships
"compared with healthy controls, people who have BPD display extensive cortical and subcortical abnormalities in brain structure and function.1 These anomalous patterns have been detected across all 4 available neuroimaging techniques. "
http://www.currentpsychiatry.com/hom...d15566bde.html
RICH has taken the time to offer you great advice in this thread and what have you done with it?
Do whatever you wish to do but don't be surprised if, in 5 years from now, you are still complaining about the same things you complain about now, except that you will be 5 years older. Complaining will not solve the issues you face.
Nov 27th 2015, 2:11 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
My wife had her own horse in England, but the property and business were a means to an end really, they provided the chance to get a TWP as self employed while we waited for a PR application. It saved treading water in the UK for 3 years. My background is in corporate marketing, so it was quite a change. I think if you can set your mind to do anything if you're motivated enough.
Nov 27th 2015, 2:46 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
My wife had her own horse in England, but the property and business were a means to an end really, they provided the chance to get a TWP as self employed while we waited for a PR application. It saved treading water in the UK for 3 years. My background is in corporate marketing, so it was quite a change. I think if you can set your mind to do anything if you're motivated enough.
Nov 27th 2015, 3:06 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
I think if you can set your mind to do anything if you're motivated enough.
Nov 27th 2015, 3:11 am
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Nov 27th 2015, 3:22 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
My wife had her own horse in England, but the property and business were a means to an end really, they provided the chance to get a TWP as self employed while we waited for a PR application. It saved treading water in the UK for 3 years. My background is in corporate marketing, so it was quite a change. I think if you can set your mind to do anything if you're motivated enough.
Nov 27th 2015, 3:59 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
That's a load of bollocks. Its clear that you had the cultural capital and education to be able to navigate the small business world successfully. JSmith clearly doesn't. And after seeing the sorry state of vast swathes of American public education, especially in less affluent districts, its hardly surprising.
Nov 27th 2015, 4:01 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
What's my wife's horse got to do with anything? My educational level is no higher than his.
Nov 27th 2015, 4:02 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
Excuses, excuses and more excuses. Just have a look at the posts you have made in the last 2 pages.
RICH has taken the time to offer you great advice in this thread and what have you done with it?
Do whatever you wish to do but don't be surprised if, in 5 years from now, you are still complaining about the same things you complain about now, except that you will be 5 years older. Complaining will not solve the issues you face.
RICH has taken the time to offer you great advice in this thread and what have you done with it?
Do whatever you wish to do but don't be surprised if, in 5 years from now, you are still complaining about the same things you complain about now, except that you will be 5 years older. Complaining will not solve the issues you face.
Nov 27th 2015, 4:04 am
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Re: 8 out of 10 jobs will require post secondary education?
It's a reflection on the people that you mingle with, I don't want to make an issue about you, as it's not fair because I don't know you, but it indicates that u mix with more successful people which may have helped or pointed you in the right direction. Just saying :@)
