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In an era where jobs are frequently disrupted by wars, natural disasters, mergers, and a rapidly evolving marketplace, many workers have come to realize that the only job security they have is what they can create for themselves. "Using AI to Make Your Own Job Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" uniquely explains in 175 pages how to derive an original job idea, test the concept, and then goes step-by-step on how to start their own businesses in the U.S. The book concludes with a chapter on how to write a book if your product is knowledge, rather than a physical object.

A Georgia Spineless Eatable Cactus asr A Potential Source of Animal and Human Food

Ads for Your Business or Services that Pay You Money You can have ads for your business or service that circulate worldwide, contain exactly the content that you want, stay up forever and pay you money.

Alte ative Reality: True, False or Somewhere in Between? Alte ative reality is an opinion that may or may not be supported by facts. A new phrase, alte ative reality, entered the language with the Trump administration. It is used to describe statements often issued by the president that he may believe to be true, but do not correspond with reported facts or commonly held beliefs. Where is this term on the spectrum between truth and falsehood?

An Older Guy Balances His Physical, Intellectual and Social Life

Ask for a Raise or Change Jobs? Mid-level employees with two years or more of experience have never been in a better position to ask for a raise.

At 84, I must use a cane. I was shopping at a grocery store, and a mother with her three-year-old daughter was ahead of me. I heard running steps behind me and which stopped when a slim eight-year-old boy approached from behind. He stopped and asked, "Why do you use a cane?" I answered that I needed to use it to keep me from falling because I had lost my sense of balance. He gave me a look, as if not quite believing that a slim adult, even an older adult, could not run as easily as he could.

Avoid Financial Disaster when Selling Your Company Is selling your company going to reward you financially or leave you with a bankrupt company and debts that you cannot repay? Thus far your entrepreneurial enterprises have gone well. You started a company, made it a success, ran it for decades and now would like to cash out to move on onto something else. You have solicited offers and some have been received. How to you evaluate which one to accept? A range of options are offered. These include: • Cash Purchase with A One-Time Paymentr

Be Prepared for YES Proper prior preparation prevents piss poor performance. Rule of the seven “Ps,” U.S. Army, c. 1970 and possibly long before.

Wm. Hovey Smith is a registered Professional Geologist in Georgia. He is also a member of several writers’ organizations including the Professional Outdoor Media Association (POMA), the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) and the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association (GOWA). He is the author of 18 books with his most recent title being “Create Your Own Job Security: Plan to Start Your Own Business at Midlife.” He has been a radio host and does public speaking on work and environmental topics with appearances in the U.S., Europe and China.

Canine Supervision: Natural Law According to Your Dog For the safety and wellbeing of the household no human should be allowed to work except under the close supervision of one or more canine supervisors.

The current Writers and Actor's strikes in the movie industry is partly out of a conce of the present and coming ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to replace working writers. At present Google's Bard does not work well with Final Draft formatted screenplays, but Chat GBT does. If you want to find out something, ask. I did. This is what Chat replied. What Limitations Does Chat-BGT Have in Screenwriting?

Choose Your Partners as Carefully as You Would Choose Your Parents While sex appeal and lust-driven emotional responses likely played a large part in your being conceived, such responses need to be set aside when taking on a business partner. Maybe a sex partner can be a business partner, but the first determination in partnership is “What can you bring to the business that I cannot?”

Create Your Own Job with Your Present Company, Another Company or On Your Own With today’s rapid advances in IT technology, science, marketing and an ever-evolving art world it is possible to invent marketable jobs to capitalize on in a variety of ways.

Crystallography as a Way to Discover the “Unknown Unknowns” Regarding any Process or Question Crystallography with its rigid rules of form and symmetry provides a way to consider undiscovered facts and properties of complex problems.

Entrepreneurship As a Means of Combating the Epidemic of Loneliness Useful work to fill the hours of our days is what your body would tell you it wants if it could speak.

If you don’t know where you are, you can’t know where to go. One of the most difficult tasks that beginning entrepreneurs have is to make a realistic evaluation of their own abilities. Lesson 4 of my LearnDesk series covers a series of points from personal appearance to communication skills. No one likely has all the skills to run a successful business. The objective of this lesson is to have viewers systematically evaluate different aspects of the business world to determine which aspects they need to improve, and which are best farmed out to others.

From Creation to Realization: A Case Study I consulted with a client who had a large number of business ideas, but did not have the equipment or skills to properly present them to potential backers.

From Dublin to Duluth with the Ford Ranger

Generating Scenesr The Backbone of the Screenplay

Many people are rightly conce ed with the present and exponential impacts that AI is having on work and life. There is no field whether in competitiveness in retail trade, manufacturing, military activities, law enforcement, education, health care, or in the creative arts where the impacts of AI are not already being felt and may become even more indispensable to modern life - much as the smartphone is today.

“Blood Ties” by Wm. Hovey Smith was the Hemingway Screenplay Writing Award winner of the L.A. Live Festival in 2023. The citation for the prize commented “’Blood Ties’ is definitely a feature film that would attract large audiences at even larger venues. The Hemingway Award is our highest award for a feature length screenplay. We have many winners for category and genre for feature length screenplays, but only one yearly will win the ‘Hemingway Award’ our most coveted award for literary works of art in the form of a screenplay.

An Effective Library Appeal For Your Book

An extract from my forthcoming book "Make Your Own Jobr Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" to be published in February, 2020 Writing a Book Often the most rapid way to establish credibility in a field is to write a book about a hot topic and use this book as a springboard to access members of the print and broadcast media. This initial exposure will not only help you sell copies of your book, but will also open the much more lucrative market as a paid lecturer and self-help guru. You will then be able to do group consultations with industry in addition to attracting private clients.r

It is always an ego-stroke to receive an honest, but favorable review on one of your books. This is one received today on my book "Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age." It has also received excellent reviews from Kirkus and the U.S. Review of books.

Incorporating Outdoor Materials into Novelsr Wm. Hovey Smith

Increase Your Wealth and Happiness by Tapping Multiple Sources of Income Generating multiple income streams through starting several small-scale businesses can help you keep your paychecks coming in this rapidly changing economy.

Increased Productivity in the Time of Coronavirus Writing is by its nature a generally solitary occupation where for many of us a self-isolation is generally desired during at least part of the process. Now being 78 and a widower it is just me and Hector, my Lab, at home, and I do not have any great difficulty with that. Just as is the case when a plant under stress produces more fruit, I am producing more books. Most of my books are of interest to my fellow outdoor enthusiasts, but my business books are applicable to all. Finish Old Projects

Writers very quickly learn to take criticism. Almost any day any working writer will have his article, book, or screenplay rejected, and sometimes very harshly. Over the past half-century, this has happened to me many times, but yesterday I received a Kirkus review of my new novel "The Goldfarb Chronicles: Moving With Baby, The Solitario, Brewster County Law" that reached a new high or low depending on your point of view.

Job Options if You Are/Were a Shutdown Impacted Federal Employee or Retail Worker

Jobs for Laid-Off Assembly Line Workers Automation has replaced hundreds of thousands of assembly line workers and Human Resource Departments have not succeeded in finding jobs for many of them.

Final Screenplay from The Goldfarb Trilogy Starting the Roundsr Texas Justice, the last of three screenplays derived from my soon-to-be-published novel, "The Goldfarb Trilogy" has been submitted to the Wiki Screenplay Contest as well as to the Austin Film Festival. An ad will go out to thousands of film festivals early next month who may request that I also submit to them. Some few hundred requests may be expected to which I will submit to about a dozen.

Hovey Smith's School of Self-Reliance will offer its first LearnDesk business creation and training program on February 7, 2023.The course "Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" will consist of 12 videos presented on the basis of two a week for six weeks which will explain how to create and rank business concepts and start a business in the United States.

Stay at home rules and closing colleges has interrupted educational activities for many people. However, resources are available to enable you to learn how to write a movie without being on campus. I have completed a 30-minute video listing books, a writing program, and two college courses that are that you may order today. I have no financial connection with any of these writers or companies and these are the best resources that I have found while writing my own screenplay.

Since the publication of my book "Create Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age" I have occasionally received correspondence from others working in the same field. The following article is by Amy Collett who requested that I post it on some of my sites. She was in the corporate world for 17 years and then struck out on her own to help care for her grandmother and is doing consulting in the areas of Personal Branding, Resume Developing, Logo-Messaging-Website Development, and Social Media Evaluation.

Reaching potential audiences where they are with business books is best done by offering products on a multiplicity of platforms as author Wm. Hovey Smith has done with his new business title, "Make Your Own Job: Anywhere, Anytime, At Any Age." which was nearly simultaneously published as a softcover, e-book, and audio book through two different publishers. The softcover and e-book were done with Stratton Press and the e-book with Liste Up Productions, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Muddling Mondays You have returned to work on Monday after making a presentation at a trade show and a 4-to- 12 hour flight back home. After making a presentation at a trade show or other event and a long flight back home the body, mind and spirit are going to take time to recover, whether it is convenient for you or not. Your objective on returning back to work is to muddle through the day without making any major mistakes, or in more direct language, without fucking up too badly. At work: Avoid immediate commitments • Retire to the quietest place you can findr

Multiplicity of Jobs for the Post Corona Decade

New Outdoor Books Four recent books from southern authors can be used to illustrate changing market demands for hunting and fishing stories. This market is decreasing as pre-baby boomers and boomers are dying off, or becoming so sight-impaired they can no longer read, and the younger generations are becoming increasingly reluctant to read.

As a writer I have written more than 20 books on outdoor and business topics. "Until Death Do You Part: An American Family Meets Their Sicilian Relatives" is now available as an audio book and is to be followed by an e-book, softcover, and perhaps ultimately a movie.

Day before yesterday I did an interview for Tom Anton's "Screw The Commute" entrepreneural podcast radio show which will be posted on Friday to iTunes, and just about every other podcast outlet you can think of.

You can overcome self-doubt and knowledge deficiencies to increase earnings by designing a job that fits your unique mix of talents and abilities. All of us have a unique set of knowledge and experiences. In modern regimented business models it is common to attempt to place people into jobs that don’t suite them with the result that some workers are forced into jobs where they do not fit. While specialized training is necessary to function in almost any part of today’s economy, the benefits may be relatively short-term, as one technology is replace by another within a few years.

Overcoming Shyness in Life and Business Perhaps the best example of a person who has overcome shyness is the performing artist who stands naked on stage and presents his art before an audience of half-drunk New Yorkers in the wee hours of the morning.

Pick Up Tuesdays Most creative people who are not endowed with the “neatness gene” live a messy existence. Pick Up Tuesdays budgets one day a week to restore a degree of order to their environments. To the frequent dismay of those whose motto is, “Everything has its place and everything is in its’ place,” many creative people had rather create than clean up after themselves. Their desks are often messy, their houses are cluttered and their workshops often have half-finished projects on the workbench.

Presentation Fridays Days that involve travel to an event followed by a presentation are often the most stressful.

In Hollywood screenplays are like assholes, everybody's got one. One relatively new wrinkle in screenplay presentation is the video pitch which is a short, 3-5-minute video that is seen in mass screenings by studio executives who select those they think are worth further attention - like actually having someone read the script.

Property Rights: Natural Law According to the Dog What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is mine and what’s theirs is mine if I can get it.

Protecting Yourself and Financial Position from Coronavirus