Jobs engineering

Markets in Everything: Odd Jobs Edition

From idiots' collective, Today, Read 0 times. Similar articles

The excellent Marginal Revolution blog has a running series entitled "Markets in Everything." In these posts, the writers offer examples of the peculiar little commercial niches created in a vibrant market economy. A few of my favorites include: testicular implants for pets (the splendidly-named "Neuticles"), raves for deaf people, and rent-a-protestor.The "Markets in Everything" series is a tribute to Adam Smith's theory of the division of labor. In Book I, Chapter III of his On the Wealth of... Read more

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China praises 'sound, stable' relationship with US

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Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met Monday to steady relations beset by tensions over currency, trade and military affairs. With crucial elections coming up in November, U.S. President Barack Obama is under huge pressure to kick-start the economy with unemployment at just under 10 percent. China's lopsided trade surplus and currency policies have been targeted by some who say they are taking jobs away from Americans. Meanwhile, China's nationalistic state media have criticized... Read more

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Conversation 9/4/10: A generous asshole pt.2

From Loco in Yokohama, Today, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Continuation from part 1 of the same conversation… Student: That’s funny! She seems like a very nice person. Me: Yeah, she was… By the way, you said tipping is an insult, right' Student: Yes! Me: Why' Student: In Japan, tipping is thought to be something that is done from up to down. Me: Ah…I can see that. People who receive tips back home are usually doing jobs where the pay isn’t so high . Waitresses, hotel staff-people and whatnot. Student: Yes, Japanese people... Read more

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Asian markets climb as double-dip fears ease

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Stocks in Asia advanced Monday following solid gains in the U.S. as fears eased that the global economy could slip back into recession. Most investors took heart after the U.S. Labor Department on Friday said private employers added 67,000 jobs in August, more than analysts expected. However, the jobless rate rose to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent in July. The private job gains bolstered optimism that the U.S. will maintain a slow but steady recovery from last year's recession and avoid... Read more

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this is not a happy day for labour

From we move to canada, Yesterday, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Sid Ryan, President of the Ontario Federation of Labour:Today, there are 250,000 fewer full time jobs and 355, 000 more unemployed workers. That's only half the picture. Thousands of ?new' jobs being created are part-time, contract, unstable, unpredictable and low waged. This explosion of precarious work is fast becoming a new normal.Life is getting a lot tougher since this transfer of wealth and it is getting much more so.. . . .Since its inception, the labour movement has always been the key... Read more

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Is it Becoming Harder to be an Expat in Russia'

From Windows to Russia, Yesterday, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Originally posted 2009-09-16 07:21:00. As in the whole world, companies in Russia have resorted to job cuts over the past twelve months to stay afloat! Foreign workers were hit hard by these cuts and more than two thirds of expats in Russia have lost their jobs and have had to go home… The brunt of these expats are upper management with big corporations, that “trimmed the fat” so to speak. Russia has a much better trained management core of workers now than they did even a... Read more

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A Medical Doctor working in a Corporate environment is like an actress starting to do porn

From The Adventures of a Foreign Sala, 2 days ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

This post might not be of much interest for you without any interest at all in the health care industry, overseas or in Japan. But since the blog is so fragmented anyway you just can skip it if you're not interested.Outside of Japan, thinking of Europe and the US, it is not extremely unusual to have full blown certified medical doctors leaving the patient treating setting of hospitals and clinics, going into corporate jobs full time, putting their skills to use in the field of sales and... Read more

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Due to popular demand!

From Not Quite Danish, 3 days ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Christmas time at 'home' in country AustraliaWell, one person missed it actually, so I am biting the bullet and starting up again.It's been pretty close to a year since my last riveting post and quite a bit has happened. Not all interesting. Apart from managing to survive that dreadful year - still haven't forgiven global greedy financiers of all sorts and nationalities but particularly certain American ones - but not completely scarless. Lots of people I know lost their jobs, not just here in... Read more

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English Language Books

From ahoy hanoi, 3 days ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

English text books is a huge industry. There are countless different books for all age levels, skills and jobs. Some of the books are horrible and others are excellent. Personally, I appreciate the books that have some subtle jokes that only native English speakers would really pick up on. However, the other day I was using a text that had a hilarious joke that seemingly anyone who keeps up with current events could have found funny.If you follow the news, you would know that some Islamic... Read more

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FBI: 6 accused in forced labor of 400 Thai workers

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Six recruiters were accused Thursday of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history. The indictment alleges that the scheme was orchestrated by four employees of labor recruiting company Global Horizons Manpower Inc. and two Thailand-based recruiters. It said the recruiters lured the workers with false promises of lucrative jobs, then... Read more

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