Getting My MBA at 48

I Think its a Beautiful Day in Houston

Since I have not been outside yet I think is nice outside as much as I can see from the window. I have gotten up exercised and studied some and now I am getting ready for work.

I have to mention yesterday I was reading articles in the Wall Street Journal and the AppleInsider during my airport time and or a lack of a better words right now there was an article that pissed me off.

I guess in a good way because on the flight to Phoenix, I got this really great idea for a business that I pretty sure no one has thought of before or I would have already seen it.

Now I really need to bend time, get support from Family and Friends, to get my MBA finished by June and have this up and running before then, God and the Spirits willing.

So with exercising, studying and working on this project, (sorry I can’t talk about it yet, don’t want to give away the goodies) and family I guess I am going to live a Spartan life.

Discipline and time mastery

Exciting times, and these four quote by 3 famous men are the makings of an inspiring day.

“Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur. (Shorten version, Luck favors the prepared mind)

“When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.”

“We will either find a way or make one” Hannibal (Hannibal’s feat in crossing the Alps with war elephants passed into European legend: a fresco detail, ca. 1510, Capitoline Museums, Rome, incase any one out there is confused who Hannibal is)

“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Not to meant some great music to get your mood on the right side of excellent.

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A Day at the Beach, don’t I wish

Yes sitting at the airport for 5 hours was just a thrill, no it not a day at the beach but I do get to see people I haven’t seen in awhile and that makes it fun.

As always it is hard to study, to much going on. To many conversations all at the same time, it gives you a head ache. So to avoid the talking I went for 1 hour and 40 minutes walk around the balcony, it took 1 minute and or 93 steps to complete. Walking for a 100 minutes = 100 laps or 9300 steps. Actually it felt good.

Nice to have the movement, I need it.

Not much happened at all the rest of the day, I did not pay attention to the news though I did inquire as to the cost of an online subscription to the Wall Street Journal, because the New York Times is thinking of a cost between $9.99 to 30.00 a month.

For the new iPad, which is ridiculous because I certainly wouldn’t pay that amount and I don’t think that they will get many that will pay that kind of money for online reading.

Even with the success of Apple’s iTunes companies have complained about Apple’s pricing strategy of $.99 yet they are now after 7 years approaching 10 billion downloads.

Apple has let some make pricing adjustments, (raise the price) yet download have drop 8 to 10 percent every month since companies have been changing the prices.

Me I really believe $.99 per song is a good price and I have to say that of all the downloads at least 20 percent have been the album anyway not just a song.

But I don’t think corporate America will wake up to that fact, it is always trying to push more and more out of the consumer.

At 5:45 I got on the flight back to San Francisco, totally filled as always. Who says people are not flying. It was a pleasant flight with no real mishaps.

I will have to go back in on Friday, but it leaves me with 2 full days of studying, exercising and scanning.

So I am off for a bit a reading before lights out.

Tags: accounting, apple, books, education, flying, iPad, iTunes, life, management, mba, new york times, online university, phoenix, san francisco, schedule, strategy, studying, success, technology, travelers, wall street, wall street journal, wsj

Airport Appreciation

Airport appreciation is a fine art, one that you don’t really get used to.

Yesterday I didn’t get any studying accomplished, after 3 flights it kills most of the day, and today will be no different. I just finished my first leg of the day, Burbank, California to Phoenix, Arizona.

I did however get some great sleep last night, room to sprawl and nice comfortable pillows makes for peaceful rest. Sometimes that simple pleasure makes all the difference in the world.

For now it is a 2 hour airport appreciation in Phoenix, before flying to San Jose, California then back to Phoenix, Arizona. With 6 more hours of work time, I won’t be able to study today unless I do it later tonight.

I haven’t decided if I was going back to San Francisco tomorrow or if I am going to stay here in Phoenix. I get back after 10:00 p.m. tonight which is to later to commute home. I do have all day tomorrow so that is a plus, yet staying in Phoenix will save time enabling me to accomplish more, going back to San Francisco will allow me some rest and me time. I guess I see how I fill later tonight.

I got the new copy of Fortune magazine, so I am hoping to get through it today. Also I am hoping someone leaves a copy of the Wall Street Journal so I can also read it tonight.

It is time to leave for a few hours, while I work the flights to San Jose and back.

Tags: airports, arizona, burbank, california, delays, education, flying, fortune, fortune magazine, management, mba, phoenix, schedule, studying, success, wall street, wall street journal, wsj

Another company wanting government backing

It is amazing to me that these companies can be so irresponsible, Dubai World has 59 billion in liabilities and asked for a standstill request last week while it restructures. Please!

If that was the common folk all the creditors would be coming after them with fervor,

I agree with…

“Creditors need to take part of the responsibility for their decision to lend to the companies,” said Abdulrahman al-Saleh, director general of Dubai’s department of finance. “They think Dubai World is part of the government, which is not correct.” from the article “Government won’t back Dubai World debt” from The Globe and Mail.

Both the company and the creditors need to take some responsibility and quit trying to push off the debt to some else. I can’t do this and you can’t do this, wouldn’t it have been nice if the United States government guaranteed all of its citizens debt instead of a few investment firms. Crazy, but it is no crazier than what the government did with the financial crisis in the United States, which was started by certain corporationsto rid itself of competitors.

A great article, eye opening in fact is in Rolling Stone, Oct 14, 2009 “Wall Street’s Naked Swindle” by Matt Taibbi. My hat is off to him for telling a great story, very informative

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

Here is one of the Illustrations and that is how I feel, those companies are causing the US government to help while they still make millions.

-Break- I have to go get ready and fly from Phoenix to Las Vegas to San Francisco, more tonight-

Tags: Abu Dhabi, cancelation, dubai, dubai world, management, mba, online university, rolling stone, studying, success, the globe and mail, U.A.E., united states, us government, wall street, wealth

12 hours of being on call

Its Sunday and my daughters birthday, she turns 20 today, WOW I wish her the best and know she will do fine.

I have been sitting all day waiting to be call by work, I can think of no greater **** when it come to work. Sitting waiting, you have a 2 hour call out, so you really can’t start any big project, or go anywhere to far from your house.

It really is unfair treatment of workers, but our union is so stupid they agreed to this contract and don’t see a need to try and fix it.

So I did today what I could studied, I have 5 classes left, 1 more semester to finish my MBA. I have started to narrow down where I will be focusing my career, because in Jan-Feb I want to begin send out and lining up potential jobs.

I need to call school tomorrow and talk about my accounting class, whether I need the book $200 or e-book $96, either is expensive, but a necessary.

I have been looking for some good articles about MBA’s, on CNN, Business Week or the Wall Street Journal and there just don’t seem to be any to write about, I am sure that me being under the weather and having some stress has been a factor in me not writing as much.

I am hoping that things cool down a little so I can also study some other things of interest, sometimes there just don’t seem to be enough free hours in a day.

Earlier I was working on some history, after reading my Marketing Management book for about 5 hours today. so now I might work on some family history, genealogy.

Tomorrow is a new day, new thoughts, and new breathe.

Honor the spirits

Love your woman

Protect your Lands

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