Time for change
This long vacation turned out to be very difficult for me. I can’t function properly if I don’t have something to occupy my mind or keep me distracted. I prefer to sleep with the TV on if I can. I prefer to train in the gym 6 days a week if I can. And I need to work during the day and it has to be fast paced and challenging. Maybe this is what attracted me to security, everyday was different. It’s probably the same feeling that made me become an entrepreneur.
The weather in NYC has changed and it’s really beautiful. But something is still missing. NYC needs more entrepreneurs. The smart tech people all work in finance (I used to work at Lehman) and make big bucks. In San Francisco all the smart people work at startups. It’s such a different mentality. How does a startup compete with financial companies paying six figures in NYC?
Being an entrepreneur is like being a comedian…you know what I mean right? When a comedian goes on stage everyone assumes he is going to suck. Then the comedian has to gradually win the audience over. Once he has won them over he has to keep their attention. Then next week he has to come back and do the same thing all over again. And of course he will need new jokes. Can we outsource joke writing to India?
May 31st, 2006 at 6:44 am
Funny you mention india, what it boils down too is cheap labour, i mean no direct disrespect, When I was a contractor and the company i was working for decided it would be better to outsource to india and “let everyone else go”, needless to say 2 months later we were all back again with even more work to do.
Isnt it a big trend there in USA?
June 1st, 2006 at 2:46 pm
I like Indians. They are creative and very smart people. Some future tech milestones will be in India.
And they have a good sense of humour.
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:49 am
They are great people, I work with many of them, but South Africa indians are funny people, there is really never a dull moment. In fact i follow an indian philosophy and go there atleast every 2 years