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    6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery

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    Applicant Paid Fee is actually how the industry got started all those years ago. :) In the UK it's illegal for a recruitment agency to charge candidates for the service, not sure about elsewhere. There are merits to charging candidates for the service in certain circumstances I think (if you're...
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    6 Figures in 12 Months! How to Free Yourself from Wage Slavery

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    Yep, Iwokeup. Been a recruiter for most of my career. I don't like a recruiting firm as a fastlane idea these days because it's so competitive and commoditised, and it's an extremely hard business to scale and manage effectively as it's so hard to hire and keep good recruiters. If they leave...
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    Falling back to job - would appreciate your opinions

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    Why not work towards a means of securing a stream of contracts - day-rate work, not through freelance websites - that you can fulfil on a location-independent basis and without being tied down to specific hours to work. Then you can go and live in a cheap country for a while, have more freedom...
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    Sourcing & hiring employees

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    No worries, thanks for the rep. :) I wouldn't necessarily say there's any one "smoking gun", unless it's a case of dishonesty/deceit/lack of ethics. Other than quality of character then every position and every company is different. Some would insist that for example it's critical to hire...
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    Sourcing & hiring employees

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    Depends on the context and the person. At the entry level, I'm assuming you're planning to generate interest via advertising or similar one-to-many marketing channels? If you're posting an ad then your messaging by nature has to make a number of assumptions about what will appeal to the...
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    Sourcing & hiring employees

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    I've found this forum incredibly useful in just a short space of time already, for the wealth of knowledge but in also in helping me finally cross that line from interested to committed - so I want to give something back. I'm just beginning down the entrepreneurial path, however I am a veteran...
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    Kevin O'Leary.. You have to love him

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    Ray Kurzweil predicts sentient artifical intelligence that is superior to humans by 2045, the singularity by the end of the 21st century, and the ability to prevent or reverse aging at some point in between. We're either on the cusp of a new golden age or a terrifying dystopia. Fascinating times...
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    Kevin O'Leary.. You have to love him

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    Interesting point. Certainly the "status quo" doesn't provide any certainty in the way that it once did. I work in a declining industry (exec search). There's still a lot of money in it but it's a never-ending hamster wheel of commoditisation, irrelevance via technology and near-identical...
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    Chronic Back Pain

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    Joint/back pain I've found can be caused by things you would never suspect. A couple of years ago I started getting back pain, then neck pain, then pain in my right hip (especially if I walked downhill for any length of time), then pain in my right knee, numbness in my right foot and leg. It was...
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    Why do i feel like shit

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    If I were in your shoes, I'd still be enjoying life with my friends but in moderation and not to the detriment of your purpose. I'd also start looking for new friends who are walking a similar path. Dual purpose friends are awesome, they can help you get shit done and also share a well-earned...
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    Why do i feel like shit

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    Another perspective for you Kuda. I spent most of my 20s (I'm 29 now) pursuing sidewalk "wealth" at my jobs, chasing commissions and spending them on motorbikes, new toys and going out every night. If I had a big month in the pipeline I'd end up spending the money before it even hit my bank...
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    I've Read The Millionaire Fastlane!

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    Read last year (and a few times since). Lifechanging!
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    Time to claim back those wasted years!

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    Thanks for the welcomes all, it's good to be here. :) Cheers Andy. I'm thinking of ditching the bike myself (temporarily!) to get rid of the finance payments. Whenever I go to trackdays, or get away for a week touring, I always wish I could spend most of my life doing those things. What a way...
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    Too scared to fail: Millennials aren't starting businesses

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    I'm 29 and I find it difficult to relate to most people of my generation on much more than a surface level. You hardly ever see anyone under 35 on a motorbike, because "you'll kill yourself on one of those". Most do nothing but watch the clock until 5PM every day then go out and get drunk or...
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    Time to claim back those wasted years!

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    Hi from the UK! I'm 29, always had big dreams when I was younger. All my life I wanted to be a fighter pilot, but medical circumstances conspired to make that or anything similar impossible. So, not having any idea of what else I wanted to do with my life, I went out into the world doing...
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