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Sincere thoughts on my lifetime achievements.

– [Q] How to estimate employee's commitment?
* Spent time criterion is bad – people sleep sitting behind monitors.
* Constant pay is bad – no motivation to do a better (best) job.
* What about tight cooperation between management and employees so that if an employee brings a better RESULT (important keyword here is numerically measurable result) than the employee gets a better pay. So the question really is about HOW TO MEASURE RESULT?

– [Q] What kind of incentives to offer an employee to make one happy doing his job best ever possible?
* Because if there is a dream for every man, then no employee can feel happy being an employee and not realizing one's dream.
* I believe every employee craves to dramatically improve the current state of art in the field one works.

The kind of job I tend to do is...

→ Wood houses: Constructing houses from wood (since spring 2012);
→ Carwash: Pretty cool skill to learn (Nov 2011 – Apr 2012);
→ Montage, construction: Basic skills w/h montage & construction TOOLS as well as materials (since summer 2011);
→ Russian Military: Male human weaknesses thorough study 2010-2011;
→ Software engineering: TV content processing applications (video mixing, subtitles, telephone poll): MFC GUI, Graphics, Bitmaps, Microsoft COM, C++ 2008-2010;
→ Typography: Hard labour manual assembling of cardboard boxes and other packaging («Оранжевый слон» /Orange elephant/) 2008;
→ Digital image processing: interferometer stripe pattern autotracing: C#, MFC Graphics, Bitmaps, Geometry, Digital imagery 2007-2008;
→ Cooking: American fastfood («Pickles», «Thomas Donuts»): studying English w/h native speakers 2007;
→ Stocker: Grocery store («Winn-Dixie»): learning true English w/h native speakers, getting 2007;
→ C/ C++: Basic stuff on OS functions, Basic Graphics, Algorythms, Data structures, Classees, OOP, OOAD 1998-2010;
→ Html/ CSS/ Javascript/ Perl: Local Network Website, guest book in Perl 2001-2002;

I also love making movies, jogging, travelling (Florida 2007, China 2009), playing with physics, bicycle, body practices and many other things. I love to live, breathe fresh forest air and dance. I want to restore world's eco-system to its original pristine healthy state.

It's a wrong way to look for a business which gives biggest income. I gotta look for business that is right for planet, right for nature, for human health, for great well-being on Earth.

There is no excuse “I was just doing my job” for working at a wrong place. Working for evil corporations. There is the only way – to get experienced profound enough at different places and then do it my way. And to make sure I respect my people and lead them toward right aims. No excuses like “I was just trying to survive, earn my living, doing my job”.

I begin to think that this kinda universal rule (all over the world) or call it natural selection law that you earn very little being a hard-working efficient employee, while corporate power gets it all, specifically designed to make sure you really love what you do, believe it's right thing to do, and if pursuing your love hard enough, you get your company, profit share, financial wealth, and then you can decide how to drive that wealth.

It's a sorf of natural way to prove to yourself, that in future, once you get the power, you won't mistreat people and won't be an asshole.

In my company people're gonna have:
1. Paid hour for sleeping after midday (and a room to do that) in addition to 1 hour break-time.
2. 20% of time to do whatever the hell they want, and it's also gonna be paid.

First point brings a lot more efficiency compared to if employees work throughout the entire workday. Second point makes sure people do what they want, not only what they're obliged to.

And I'm now starting to realize how disciplined, self-conscious, calm and strong I'm supposed to be in order to be priviliged to have my own company. Once I'll get tons of money under my supervision, I can only rely on my own strength, wisdom and moral values. There is no point to become yet another evil CEO fudge-packer. But there is still a whole lot to learn, a long way to go. Gotta be patient and passionate all the same time.

Vulnerable people're able to desperately insanely defend themselves. They can be crazy, destructive as well as self-destructive. So, don't ever put 'em in such conditions. Unpredicted crap will happen.

Low salary isn't always bad. But its danger lies in the fact, that you become spending from 80 to 100 percent of your available lifetime just to put some food on table. While helping the people who you work for to do dirty crap.

We all become dependent on what corporate power wants from us. And the top corporate power seems to be a very dirty unbelievable evil.

The only solution I see here is to become financially independent, that is, to lead a natural economy – grow cadle and crops. What else we can do, dude?

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I can't stress it enough how important self-discipline is in pursuing my own goals. There's always plenty of distractions and temptations around. Gotta be disciplined. Time for work and time for play. I'm sick of flushing my lifetime down the toilet.

Life's specifically designed to be enjoyable & delightful ONLY IF a human succeeds & improves living conditions, makes great contribution. And the higher his improvement – the more enjoyable life one lives.

Sell a movie I'm recording and rendering. It's twelve hour and a half long lectures of american culture course.

There is a point in career as an employee when you get a fairly professional at your trade and realize that you can do your own deal. I feel I'm approaching that state.

In that state only doing a great job isn't sufficient. There appears a need to try achieving my own ambitions and being able to decide entirely on my behalf. Learn from failure, get excited from success.

Magnificent things happen when I let myself create and unleash inventor in me.

The minute I start concentrating on a single task I paranoidly panic that I'm loosing a lotta time. That's why I always try to do at least two jobs at a time and thereby only half as efficient as I could've been.

Great relief I get from 40-minute per task approach. I use a simple timer I wrote for Windows which wakes me up every N (for you to define) minutes and says – go move your ass, dude.

When I get my own house, I'll open invitations for foreign tourism. I love communication with other people.

What makes fairly boring job even miserable is that people above me notice my lack of interest in that job and realize they can't give me really cool great projects 'coz I'll fuck 'em up with such an attitude.

So the futher it goes this way, the less likely I'm going to have a great project to work on.

Way out of such a hell is to learn techniques on fairly simple projects and look forward to apply 'em in some magnificent forthcoming ones.

First problem I faced after I left home was I needed food just to survive. So I got myself a job where I earned precisely enough money to provide myself food to survive.

Then I realized some people achieve much more in life – they are enjoying life by improving existing situation on a large scale. They live in completely comfortable luxurious houses, drive splendid cars, communicate with spectacularly beautiful sexual partners, have vacation in paradise alike places 99.9% of the rest people have no idea about. They're treated with such a respect and feel like blessed by God.

So when I realized all that I felt nauseous comparing it to my life of surviving behind a monitor sitting in office space doing such small things.

In my free time I must ASAP start doing some radical changes in my life, instead of reading books (enough of theory, dude, it aint' helpful, I'm 24 already). Every day I have to perform something that would advance me toward desired future.

It's so damn difficult to set up a goal clearly. Because once I've done it, I gotta go ahead and get it. So I must be sure I crave that whatever it is I set for myself. I mean eventually this kinda activity leads me to a very basic fundamental question – what is the most important problem in my life I desire to solve. It takes quite a thought.

My professional attitude must only be grounded on will to be the most skilled and capable. And, everything is my pro. I practice everything.

Most ugly lesson is most valuable. Be grateful. Maintain dignity.

Practicing efficiency may reveal that your job isn't the one you desire and all of a sudden you start unconsciously being inefficient – what's the point of being super productive at the sort of activity you hate? But, at least you figure that out.

I avoid putting myself into a situation where I earn lots of money for my family well being, because I'm assured that there is no way to do it without bringing harm to others, namely, cutting employees' wages, disrespecting suppliers, breaking down their prices and so on.

So I gotta find a way to be wealthy without being a bitch and disrespecting people who I work with.

All the outstanding achievements I've ever accomplished, happened thanks to realization that nobody else can do it except me and I'm done with less.

Entertainment is quite dangerous because of its immediate pleasure – I start wasting too much time and no time left for great goals & aims to win.

One of the most important must-s of goal statements is COMPLETION CRITERIA.

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Gotta educate myself both scientifically and esoterically. Rejecting either side is gonna end badly.

Quite true test to check if I'm doing the kind of activity I'd love to do my entire life is to become financially funded by parents (people who do that without any benefits for them) and still be craving to get up in the morning just to continue working on it.

I very often find myself in a situation when I realize I was just surviving doing the job. And as soon as I don't need to earn money, I can't enforce myself working on that stuff. The test is quite honest. I recommend.

Ivan Yurlagin