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BILL GATESHIGH SCHOOL LECTURE- - - STORY - - - Bill Gates was invited by a high school to give a lecture. He arrived by helicopter, took the paper from the pocket where he had written eleven items. He read everything in less than 5 minutes, was applauded for more than 10 minutes non-stop, thanked him and left in his helicopter. What was written is very interesting, read: 1. Life isn't easy — get used to it. 2. The world is not concerned about your self-esteem. The world expects you to do something useful for it BEFORE you feel good about yourself. 3. You will not earn $20,000 a month once you leave school. You won't be vice president of a company with a car and phone available until you've managed to buy your own car and phone. 4. If you find your teacher rude, wait until you have a boss. He will not feel sorry for you. 5. Selling old newspapers or working while on vacation is not beneath your social standing. Your grandparents have a different word for it: they call it opportunity. 6. If you fail, it's not your parents' fault. So do not whine about your mistakes, learn from them. 7. Before you were born, your parents weren't as critical as they are now. They only got that way from paying your bills, washing your clothes and hearing you say they're "ridiculous." So before saving the planet for the next generation wanting to fix the mistakes of your parent's generation, try cleaning your own room. 8. Your school may have blurred the distinction between winners and losers, but life isn't like that. In some schools, you don't repeat more than a year and you have as many chances as you need to get it right. This looks like absolutely NOTHING in real life. If you step on the ball, you're fired… STREET!!! Do it right the first time! 9. Life is not divided into semesters. You won't always have summers off, and it's unlikely that other employees will help you with your tasks at the end of each term. 10. Television is NOT real life. In real life, people have to leave the bar or the club and go to work. 11. Be nice to the CDFs (those students that others think are assholes). There is a high probability that you will work FOR one of them." TOP | ||
GENERALCONCRETE DIVEWAY JOB- - - STORY - - - CLIENT - How much will it cost to do this job? CONTRACTOR - $2,800 dollars. CLIENT - That's too expensive for this job! CONTRACTOR - How much do you think it should cost? CLIENT - $800 max! It's a simple job! CONTRACTOR - I can't do the job for so little. CLIENT - People in your line of work wants to make a huge profit! CONTRACTOR - I'm sorry you feel this way. Why don't you do the job? CLIENT - But, but, I don't know how to do any of that. CONTRACTOR - For $900, I can teach you everything you need to know to do the job. You can then use $800 to do the job, and you're still saving $1,100. Also, you will obtain all the knowledge and the experience for the next time you need to do this job. CLIENT - Deal! CONTRACTOR - Great! To start, you need to buy tools. You will need a chipping hammer, a nail gun, a laser, a drill, a mixer machine, PPE, and some other things. CLIENT - But, I don't have any of those tools and I can't buy all that for just one job! CONTRACTOR - Ok. I can rent you my tools for another $300. You're still saving $800. CLIENT - That's cutting my savings, but I will rent your tools. CONTRACTOR - Perfect! I'll be back Saturday and we can start. CLIENT - Wait! I can't Saturday. I only have time today. CONTRACTOR - I'm sorry, I only teach others on Saturdays. I have to prioritize my time and my tools needs to be in other jobs I have during the week. CLIENT - Ok then. I will sacrifice my family's plans on Saturday. CONTRACTOR - Right, me too! Oh, I forgot. If you're going to do the job yourself, you need to buy the materials. There's a high demand nowadays, so your best bet is to get a truck and be at the hardware store by 6am before other CONTRACTORs get there. CLIENT - AT SIX IN THE MORNING? On Saturday? That's too early for me. I don't even have a truck! CONTRACTOR - I guess you'll have to rent one. By the way, do you have some helpers to help you load the truck? CLIENT - You know what? I've been thinking. Probably is better for you to do the job. It's better to pay you to do the job right and not having to go through all that hassle. CONTRACTOR - Good thinking. Sign here and let me get to work. This is the truth. ~~ Unknown Author - - - TAKE-AWAY - - - People are not just paying for a job, they are paying for knowledge, experience, tools, time, family sacrifices, and other things you bring to the table. Don't let others dictate your worth. TOP | ||
ITALIAN'S GARDEN- - - STORY - - - An old Italian man lived alone in the country. He wanted to dig his tomato garden, but it was very hard work as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament. "Dear Vincent, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I"m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, I know you would dig the plot for me. Love, Dad." A few days later he received a letter from his son. "Dear Dad, Don't dig up that garden. That's where I buried the BODIES. Love, Vinnie." At 4 AM the next morning, FBI Agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologised to the old man and left. That same day, the old man received another letter from his son. "Dear Dad, Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances. Love, Vinnie." TOP | ||
KARATE MASTER- - - COMMENT - - - This seems to have the essence. I need to find the original. The wording is better. The text will be updated when I find it. - - - STORY - - - A student that has trained for 10 years with the same master asked, "Master when will you teach me the secrets of this style". The Master smiled and continued training the class. Another student, who was with the club for 20 years asked the same question. The Master replied the same way. On another occasion, a student who's trained for 30 years asked a similar question. The Master finally replied, "I show you the secrets every day. It's in the basics." TOP | ||
S.O.S.- - - STORY - - - An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears. The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus, and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio: "Airbus, boring flight, isn't it? Now have a look here!" He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, and then swoops down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive. He loops back next to the Airbus and asks: "Well, how was that?" The Airbus pilot answers: "Very impressive, but watch this!" The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly straight, at the same speed. After 15 minutes, the Airbus pilot radios, "Well, how was that? Confused, the jet pilot asks, "What did you do?" The Airbus pilot laughs and says: "I got up, stretched my legs, walked to the back of the aircraft to use the washroom, then got a cup of coffee and a chocolate fudge pastry." - - - TAKE-AWAY - - - When you're young, speed and adrenaline seem to be great. But as you get older and wiser, you learn that comfort and peace are more important. This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older, and Smarter. Dedicated to all my senior friends ~ it's time to slow down and enjoy the rest of the trip. TOP | ||
SOMEBODY NOBODY- - - STORY - - - This is a story about four persons names Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angy about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that anybody could do it, and Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody blamed Anybody. Ref: IEEE PCS Newsletter, 1985, mth? TOP | ||
TEXAN CHALLENGE- - - STORY - - - A Texan goes into an Irish pub and says, "I'll give anyone $500 if they can drink 10 pints in two minutes". People look around at each other a few times. Silence all round. "No takers?" says the Texan. One person walks out and the Texan orders a pint from the bar-keep (bar tender) to drink by himself. 30 minutes later, the guy who walked out comes back in and asks the Texan, "Does your challenge still stand?" "It sure does!", says the Texan. "Can I take up your challenge?" "Yes, 10 pints in two-minutes for $500", says the Texan. The bar-keep takes out the stop-watch. He starts it when he serves the first pint. The 10th pint was finished with 5 seconds to spare. "Here you are. The $500 for beating my challenge", says the Texan. "By the way," he asks the man. "Where did you go in the last 30 minutes?" "I had to find a pub to see if I could do it!", says the man. - - - TAKE-AWAY - - - It's good to test yourself with a trial run or prototype before you accept the offer or challenge. The chances are better that way even if you are playing with a spreadsheet or with other people. You guessed it. My appreciation of Irish humour started from Tom Millet, an Irishman of course. He was the Comm's Lab Mgr during my thesis time. TOP | ||
TONTO & LONE RANGER- - - STORY - - - The Lone Ranger and Tonto went camping in the desert. After they got their tent all set-up, both fell sound asleep. Some hours later, Tonto wakes the Lone Ranger and say, "Kemosabe, look towards the sky, what do you see?" The Lone Ranger replies, "I see millions of stars." "What that tell you?" asked Tonto. The Lone Ranger ponders for a minute and says, - "Astrologically speaking, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. - Timewise, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three in the morning. - Theologically, the Lord is all-powerful and we are very small and insigniicant. - Meterologically, it seems we will have a beautifal day tomorrow. - What's it tell you Tonto?" "You dummber than buffalo chip. It tell me Someone Stole the Tent!". TOP | ||
ZEN MASTER- - - STORY - - - Once upon a time, there was a wise Zen master. People travelled from far away to seek his help. In return, he would teach them and show them the way to enlightenment. On this particular day, a scholar came to visit the master for advice. "I have come to ask you to teach me about Zen," the scholar said. Soon, it became obvious that the scholar was full of his own opinions and knowledge. He interrupted the master repeatedly with his own stories and failed to listen to what the master had to say. The master calmly suggested that they should have tea. So the master poured his guest a cup. The cup was filled, yet he kept pouring until the cup overflowed onto the table, onto the floor, and finally onto the scholar's robes. The scholar cried "Stop! The cup is full already. Can't you see?" "Exactly," the Zen master replied with a smile. "You are like this cup - so full of ideas that nothing more will fit in. Come back to me with an empty cup." - - - TAKE-AWAY - - - Keni Lee Burgess: To be able to listen intently, hearing exactly what is being said to you is a skill. Do not listen, while having an internal conversation with yourself as to how to respond. TOP | ||
ROBERT SMITHHAUNTED KITCHEN- - - STORY - - - Need to reconstruct the story of how the Ghost was exorcised. Elements: - Kitchen Toaster - Kitchen Kettle - Mum's sewing machine - - - TAKE-AWAY - - - 'Follow the electrons.' - Start tracing with the local devices isolating them one at a time. Progress to the nearby areas until the crooked one reveals itself. Failing that, ask what people were doing at that specific trip time. TOP |
VOLUNTEER JOB- - - COMMENT - - - Carl Christie's personal story of a candidate for a Volunteer position at Fort Scratchley, Newcastle in early 2023. - - - STORY - - - People were interviewed. Range of duties described. Walked around the Fort that held off the Sydney invasion in 1942. Shown the different buildings and the museum. Shown the maintained large guns that are time used for social occasions and 11am & 1 pm time keeping. Vacancy for volunteers: - Shop counter selling merchandise, - Guide for the tunnel tours, - Attend monthly meetings. One of the questions at the end was, "How much does this Volunteer Job pay?" Carl Christie will be 86 in 2023. I heard a similar story from the Fire Brigade station manager during Dec 2022 Bush Fires. TOP | ||
STEVE JOBSAS A 20 YEAR OLD- - - STORY - - - "Do it when you are young. I was 20 years old at that, Woz was 24-25, so we have nothing to lose. We have no families, no children, no houses. We had everything to gain, and we figured even if we crash and burn, and lose everything, the experience will have been worth ten times the cost." Steve Jobs TOP | ||
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