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@ Aaron Joel
2024-09-18 18:07:39"The transition from permaculture self-reliance and small business to large organisational roles mentioned previously presents similar structural dilemmas and pitfalls. Creative, ethically driven people in large organisations tend to be co-opted and corrupted by the large-system forces within which they must work." --David Holmgren
Long before I had even heard of #permaculture, I held this view. It goes all the way back to high school. I remember most of my friends working at fast food chains, or as pizza delivery drivers, or the giant regional grocery. Those who were planning on going to college were going for engineering, accounting or business and already had aspirations for working in a fortune500 company.
I on the other hand, mowed lawns, life-guarded at the high-school pool, and worked for the Texas Trampoline Company; a guy building trampolines in his garage with a full-time staff of about 2 and about 5 of us part-time high schoolers. I never worked fast-food, but when I was in restaurants, all except one were one-offs or had fewer than 3 locations. The largest chain I worked at had 30, and only 20 within the contiguous United States.
As I continue to apply for jobs; with each application I'm driven more and more to hoping the TaskRabbit gig-economy self-employment starts producing fast and well before I get desperate and have to say yes to working for my very bleu county government. I was hoping to get this post finished before my Tasker Success Manager call, but got interrupted by cats needing attention and then the call came. It was useful. My TSM said going from zero to one is always the hardest step and sent me a heat-map to compare to my opportunity map. There's evidently a difference.
The opportunity map is more general. It covers Taskr availability vs task requests across the app and under "all skills." Areas more likely to have task requests show up a darker green. The heat map narrows things down a bit. It is filtered by specific skills which the Taskr has listed in his/her profile. It shows hot spots of hits within those categories within the past 15 days. You have to get this app from your TSM, it isn't available through your Taskr app or web portal.
As I wrote and did some things around the house today, I managed to MP3-ify 3 albums for portability. Just the next 3 in line of my record collection: The Graduate soundtrack, Journey; Greatest Hits sides 3 and 4, and The Smiths: The Queen is Dead