[ originally posted May 1, 2009 @ 0:24 ]
Having joined it a few weeks prior, I made an incredibly rash, gut-level decision to jump out of the organisation known as Success University (now merged with WorldVentures).
I recommend that you do too if you’re involved, and tell anyone you know who is involved to get the heck out.
Success University was a a multilevel marketing scheme – often disguised and marketed as an online university – that offered motivational speakers’ material over the Internet, in a “university” format. They had “tuition fees” of $149.95 to join and $49.95 a month afterwards (and the prices are always in US dollars, even if you’re in the UK), with which you get to listen to the materials.
The emphasis is on the ability to make money from Success University, by building your own team of affiliates. Recruit enough people and you can potentially make millions, much like the founders and their highest performing crew. As you’ll read later, I do mean performing.
Although I will refrain from calling Success University/WorldVentures a scam, there were factors that added up to that one big decision to bail.
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[ originally posted Jul 21, 2010 @ 13:32 ]
In the last couple of months, I’ve been accused of “slagging off clients” and “complaining about and insulting recruitment agents”, both on my main web site and on DREWspective, by two different recruitment agents.
I personally feel they were somewhat exaggerated, alarmist claims by people who won’t read. Because even when I’ve ranted on DREWspective, I’ve made a point of being careful not to mention any names or anything that could identify a particular entity.
However, the goings-on of the last couple of months have gotten me thinking about the image I’m presenting – because at the end of the day, I want money in the bank.
Here’s another one of my controversial, sure-to-offend ideas…
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[ originally posted Oct 29, 2008 @ 12:33 ]
I came home to even more dead fish in my fish tank. I’d lost a few fish the previous night, and I was still upset about the incident.
At first I thought the fish were being violent toward each other, which didn’t make sense – all the fish in the tank were known to be peaceful species. I did see one rainbowfish nuzzle (or even nip) at another, however.
So I began to do a water change, and I came across a disgusting bug-like creature at the bottom of the tank…
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[ originally posted Dec 18, 2007 @ 20:50 ]
Back in December 2007, I took what’s called an AQ test (I assume it stands for “Asperger Quotient”). The test is designed to measure the likelihood of having Asperger’s Syndrome, with a score of 32 or higher being more or less affirmative.
Almost three years ago I scored 23. I took the test again a few days ago, and scored 29.
Asperger’s Syndrome is a form of autism: a condition which affects the way people who have it relate to their surroundings. It usually results in difficulty in making friends, meeting people and being able to “read” social cues.
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