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   From: industry3dREMOVE@yaREMOVEhoo.com   
      
   Abel wrote:   
   > Education is the key, when it comes to job creation.   
      
   How so? You got fifty people who have been educated, how does that turn   
   into a business that needs to hire those fifty people?   
      
    >As it stands   
   > today, there are at least twice as many new computer jobs as there are   
   > graduates in the field.   
      
   How old is that bit of data? From what I've seen / heard the job market   
   is a bit over saturated.. and now that a lot of older people are going   
   to have to work longer before retirement..   
      
   > This is what today's employers are desperately in need of, graduates   
   > with COMPUTER SCIENCE degrees, either a bacheler's or even an   
   > associates degree would do.   
      
   Too bad most of the people I know who are interested in getting into   
   "computers" are mainly focused on doing 3D art & animation..   
      
   The employees I hear tech business needing, are in the area of electronics.   
      
   > This is where the future is, software   
   > engineering, web development, programming, computer language, database   
   > administration and operating systems.   
      
   Again, how far in the past was that "future"?   
      
   >  Each and every business, today,   
   > is beginning to rely more and more upon computers, especially in the   
   > accounting field, health information management, and government   
   > industry.  Also heavily reliant on people with computer skills are,   
   > you name it, any business that utilizes the internet, including the   
   > advertising industry, print production, and Web design.   
      
   Name some industry that doesn't already have computers....   
      
   Martin   
      
   > The field is also known as INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, which has to do   
   > with computer-based information systems, particularly software   
   > applications and computer hardware.  Today's business community is in   
   > dire need of securely converting, storing, protecting, processing,   
   > transmitting, inputting, outputting, and retrieving information.  As   
   > you can see, in today's world, it's all about information.   
   >   
   > It costs a lot of money to start a business, with rent and electricity   
   > and advertising and personnel costs and equipment costs and so much,   
   > much more.  We're easily talking several thousands of dollars per   
   > month, at least.   
   >   
   > A good rule of thumb, when you start a business, any business, you   
   > should expect to continue losing money each and every month, for a   
   > whole year.  At least one year, maybe even 2 years.   You should   
   > expect to lose money for a long time, and then ONLY after that will   
   > you start to pick up the pace.  It takes that much time to develop a   
   > clientele and repeat customers and all that, this is a reality of   
   > life, when it comes to running your own business, unless you stumble   
   > upon a lot of luck and start making money immediately (which happens   
   > sometimes).  I know someone who started an automobile repair business,   
   > even though he doesn't know jack shit about automobiles, but his   
   > business took off like gangbusters, from day one, because his location   
   > was good.  An intersection location is always good, it has twice as   
   > much traffic, it's called "cross traffic", and so business is twice as   
   > good there.  This guy opened up his auto repair shop on a 3 way   
   > island, where traffic is zooming all around him, there are 3   
   > intersections, with 3 busy intersecting stop lights that stop at his   
   > repair shop.   
   >   
   > To start a business, or even run a business, you have to be super rich   
   > to begin with, or you have to have access to a lot of capital (which   
   > used to come from banks, until they started to get stingy lately, with   
   > the Great Recession and all).   A brick and mortar location, of   
   > course, will cost you a lot of money.  I know people who are paying   
   > tens of thousands of dollars per month, just to rent a tiny little   
   > space, such as a kiosk, in a high traffic location.  It costs a LOT to   
   > run a business, anything with a solid brick-and-mortar location, of   
   > course, costs a lot to run, because rent is always so damn expensive,   
   > no matter where you go.  But there's another type of business, where   
   > you can have just as much traffic, and it costs ALMOST NOTHING, these   
   > are called web based businesses.   Other than the cost of a domain   
   > name, web hosting costs less than 20 dollars a month,   
   >   
   > And the reason why traffic can be just as high in cyberspace, if not   
   > higher than in the real world, is because today there is more traffic   
   > taking place on the information super highway (aka cyber space) than   
   > on the real highways and the roadways.  Today, people are letting   
   > their fingers do the walking, by using search engines to find what   
   > they are looking for.  And since you really have nothing to lose by   
   > opening a web based business, everyone should have one.  You would be   
   > crazy if you didn't start a parrallel web based business to supplement   
   > and compliment your regular business.   
   >   
   > There are a few suggestions I would give, if you are inspired here,   
   > I've given some links below, but you really should do your own   
   > research, Google the information on your own, about how to start a web   
   > based business.  Remember, there's a lot to read, so read up, and then   
   > try to get together with other like-minded people, people with   
   > computer skills that is.  Good luck.   
   >   
   > Abel Malcolm   
   >   
   > http://www.ehow.com/how_2263565_start-based-business-opportunity-center.html   
   >   
   > http://www.bigskyfishing.com/Internet_Business/internet_home_business.htm   
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