03.02.10
Like A Boss Video
Bad day at work? Just watch the like a boss video (Seth Rogen) and you’ll feel better. No psychologist needed.
02.23.10
Modeling Geologist – a job which saves you the walk to Zales
It’s pretty cool to see what jobs are out there. Monster has a pretty interesting job for a geologist, whhose role will manage the geological and metal resources.
For the average Joe this probably means that the are looking for someone, who will plan and stragetize a diamond or gold mine.
Not really unusual, but the reqquirements are pretty interesting as well:
Modeling Geologist – Mine – Kennecott Utah Copper
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC), a world-class mining and mineral processing company, in Salt Lake City, Utah, is searching for a Modeling Geologist to work in the Geologic Services group at its Bingham Canyon Mine.
The Modeling Geologist role will manage (create, update, and review) the geological and metal resource models. These models are critical in understanding and planning the extraction of the resource.
Additional duties include:
- Manage and update geologic/structure model with new drillhole/mapping information quarterly.
- Update of the 3D geologic solid model yearly.
- Review and update geologic model with blasthole assays weekly
- Manage borehole location, deviation, geologic and assay information with current models.
Verify data loaded into databases.
- Modify mine geology model to geology pit mapping and geological updates completed by
the mapping team.
- Process of the Adamtech imagery. Create 3D models from images.
- Assist in yearly resource model updates.
- Geologic pit mapping.
- Develop and maintain appropriate project documentation
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- Perform special projects; e.g. slope audits, drilling supervision, generation of
geologic cross sections, etc.
- Interact with mine groups: geologists, mine engineers and planners, geotechnical engineers,
Rio Tinto T&I, Resource Development, etc.
- Liaise with third party consultants, Rio Tinto T&I, and technical consultants.
- Work in safe manner and promote safety culture through company programs.
- Participation in the Rio Tinto Collaborative Forums.
Qualifications:
- BS Degree in geology or related field
- 3 years relevant geological and mining experience
- 1-2 year relevant geologic modelingExperience in mine geology modeling
- Experience in open pit mine environment
- Familiarity with porphyry-Cu geology setting preferred
Not sure what this means…but always surprising of what jobs are out there.
Here the full listing in case you want to apply:
http://jobview.monster.com/Modeling-Geologist-Mine-Kennecott-Utah-Copper-Job-Salt-Lake-City-UT-US-86380329.aspx
02.07.10
Be an artist not a talker
Interesting book from marketing Legend Seth Godin: Linchpin: Are you indispensable?
As far as I’ve read the reviews, the book basically tells employees to stop expecting and instead being an artist of what they are doing. Even if it is the waitress in a coffee shop. Everybody should be an artist of what they are doing. I cannot wait to get my hands on the book. Should be a great read.
02.06.10
Ipad Developers highly needed
It’s interesting to see that a week after the Ipad was announced…already tons of iPad app developers jobs pop up. Of course the big game shops like EA are moving forward to launch their games on the Ipad. Also newspapers and book publishers are willing to put a ton of money down in order to grab the first guys, who are knowledgable of the system.
Here one good example from Careerbuilder:
iPhone Developer – iPhone Engineer – iPhone Game Developer – iPhone Software Engineer
We are searching for an iPhone Developer, C/C++ Developer, Game Developer with strong
C/C++ development experience or a strong graphics developer with C/C++ and OpenGL programming experience. This position will be directly responsible for developing iPhone and iPad applications.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?ipath=EXIND&siteid=cbindeed&Job_DID=J8C36H678G2C90LSDXF&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=677d22dd434041a19be6e206ecf0f44c-318804258-JA-5
Unfortunately they did not put the salary there, but probably a great opportunity for many developers to pick up good cash. Until the next device come out….
02.02.10
College degree only worth USD 250.000 during lifetime
According to the College bord and other nonprofit organizations a college degree would lead to $800k to $1million more in lifetime earnings over high-school graduates.
However… now with high tuitions costs and other mysterious calculation lead a few researchers to call it “a million dollar misunderstanding”.
The calculation apparently did not take into account deductions from taxes or breaks in employment. Nor did it put into the equation the student loans and the interest rates of those.
So….overall people estimate that college grads make about $250k to $300k more in revenues a year.
Oh well..the entire WSJ article goes even more into detail, but is certainly interesting. However, let’s hope people still will try to finish college.
01.15.10
How To Run A Company Without Having Employees
A lot of people, who switch from the employee status into self-employment run into problems with
with the amount of bureaucracy. Nowadays however it’s not really necessary to do all these annoying chores and focus on the main things that the business needs. I’ve listed a few services, that we find extremely useful:
Virtual office: Regus.com is probably the most well-known virtual office provider. Pretty much anywhere in the world you have the ability to setup a shop with a mail address and a company holder. Regus forwards emails and provides email/mail forwarding anywhere in the world.
Legal : LegalZoom.com allows to get the necessary papers and legal stuff resolved in a quick manner. Legal Zoom gives the opportunity to sign up an LLC or C Corp within two weeks or so.
Office Services: Office Services such as Afinex offer full-blown phone or customer support, 24×7, 365 days a year
Invoices: Invoices can be managed by with services like invoice.zoho.com or invoice factoring companies, who give you a hands free experience to keep the money rolling.
If you know any other useful services, please comment below.
01.11.10
Curious ways of making money: Earning money while watching TV – Part 1
It’s always surprising how people earn money by doing the weirdest things. That’s why we wanted to start a new series on this blog: Curious ways of making money.
Part 1 is about Making money while watching TV.
There are various ways of making money. Let’s start with the first one’s:
1. Reputation management companies and PR services such as Porter Novelli or Reputationobserver offer people to watch certain shows and monitor brands and names being mentioned. Quite some work, but easy to make good money.
2. Being a deal hunter. Shopping channels such as QVC offer special prices if you buy large numbers. If you compare these prices to offers on your local classified site…or Ebay…you can make quite some money. However you need to be really knowledgable about the stuff or just surf while watching QVC all day.
3. Trendsetter: Watch Opera, Dr. Phil, The doctors and register domains of these new trends during the show. Be the first to have southbeachdiet.com and other great domains 
4. Watch TV online on services such as TVgorge or Hulu and upload a teaser to Youtube. Add a link to your sitee from youtube and enjoy quite some nice free traffic. This is probably an illegal move in the US, but people such as the ATDHE guys or UltimateFighting webmasters cash in big bugs this way.
By no means I am not endorsing such behaviour. It’s always easier to stay on the legal side and use one of the methods 1-3! As you know: Karma always comes back and if you do it right, you can make good money with the first methods while being a couch potatoe
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01.01.10
Ever wondered what your colleagues names means?
This is a littel offtopic, but I was always curious of some of my colleagues names. Especially since there are quite a few names, which I have never heard before. So there are a few name meanings websites out there, but unfortunately not all of them don’t really have a big database of what I was searching for.
Here a few good ones, that I’ve figured out:
Aarkarshan means attraction
Damian means sweet and harmless
Zoey means life
Ailish means noble, kind
Fun stuff for a boring and cold New Years day
12.30.09
New Years Resolutions
So..finally I’ve put together my New Years resolutions:
1. Get healthier and join the gym
2. Eat better food. Meaning no more junk food (no more pizza )
3. Optimize this blog further. I guess it needs a big update. This inlcudes finding a faster web hosting service.
4. Build out my house. New hardwood flooring and new tiles on the balcony. Also an arch for the garden.
5. Take care of my dog better
That’s it….Happy New Year and thanks for being part of this blog!
The Jobblogger
12.19.09
Happy holidays
Just wanted to thank all my readers for staying with me on this blog and I wish everybody happy holidays and a happy 2010.
Finally the market started bouncing back from that horrible depression. Even the real estate market seems to be back on target. At least the Real Estate school around my corner seems to have tons of real estate education material laying around again
So business wise and job wise the market is back on track! 2010 should be better than 2009.
So happy holidays and a happy new year!
