The Chronic Machine

Cali gets the world's first Marijuana Vending Machine.

"My Commitment" :Business For a 19 year-old

Note from a reader in the Philippines, who gives his experience as a young entrepreneur just getting started.

In my experience about what they call “business”. I started my business career when I was 18 years old approximately 4 months ago. I entered business, but in my first up to third month of doing my business I found it really really really hard. I’m a boy from Philippine and everybody thought that Philippines people are like a dust in very huge floor what we call earth. But in my mind something comes to strengthen my business career. I put it in this way: 1.) APGF 2.) DWYW 3.) NOCSM. These are the idea and feelings that comes and always produce by my mind when I’m doing my business.

1. APGF – Always Put GOD First (because since I was birth in this world called “EARTH”, my parents always go to church every Sunday and I raise and live with teaching about GOD…)

2. DWYW – Do What You Want (never force yourself in the things you do not want instead, focus on what you want and believe you want it)

3. NOCSM – No One Can Stop Me (When an idea comes in my mind I make an act on it, even the whole world try to stop me, I do whatever it takes to done my idea and show it to the world)

This is MY RULE and anyone who going to apply this in their life. Be aware of what you decide because there are no exceptions when you see an idea in your mind. Put a big consequence and make it BIG like your life or loved ones…

Emmanuel P. Gacuma

Student, Entrepreneur, Duelist, Gamer

Dasmariñas, Cavite, Pilipinas

Hustle Quote: Goldi Gold

"Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decison."-Paulo Coelho
From Goldi Gold http://www.myspace.com/goldigold

Who Wants to Be America's Next Top Lawyer?

There was a good read in the New York Times yesterday called "The Falling Down Professions." It sums up how the "status" professions are not as attractive as they once were. And how “There used to be this idea of having a separate work self and home self...Now people just want to be themselves. It’s almost as if they’re interviewing places to see if they fit them.”

“The older professions are great, they’re wonderful,” said Richard Florida, the author of “The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life” (Basic Books, 2003). “But they’ve lost their allure, their status. And it isn’t about money.”

OR at least, it is not all about money. The pay is still good (sometimes very good), and the in-laws aren’t exactly complaining. Still, something is missing, say many doctors, lawyers and career experts: the old sense of purpose, of respect, of living at the center of American society and embodying its definition of “success.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/fashion/06professions.html?ex=1357275600&en=e6188de13887a970&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink