Post Office

Every time I go to the post office and pick up my mail from my PO Box, I ALWAYS get crap mail. I mean...who doesn't, right?

Anyway, I think that all Post Offices should provide document shredders right at the post office so that you can shred your crap right there without having to take it home and do it. I mean, who of us actually takes our stuff home and shreds it right then and there? I definitely don't. When I take my stuff home to be shredded, it ends up just sitting there in the office for months...maybe years before I actually shred it, then, by that time, there's so much accumulated stuff that I it would take forever to shred it in one sitting. So, you have to make a day of it and sit there at your residential shredder and start scanning eight by eight. Then, once you start thinking about an entire day of shredding, you decide that you don't want to do that, so you start thinking about other ways you can massively get rid of 4 years worth of stuff that should've been shredded.

You come up with a brilliant idea! "I know," you say to yourself, "I'll BURN it! BURN IT ALL!!"

Then, once you realize how awesome of an idea burning all of your stuff is, you start to get excited about the fire and flames and cinders floating through the air and you realize that you don't have a pile quite big enough yet to consider burning. So, you continue to throw your stuff in the "burn pile" and it piles up even more.

Post Offices need shredders because they would help us defeat global warming.

New Job Within Chevron

So, I just got a new job within Chevron!

My new title is the "GIS Coordinator" and it will be effective in the beginning of June.

It is a strategic position in which I'll be developing the view of Chevron's GIS strategy within SJV and working to standardize all of our GIS best practices. It is a visionary type position with lots of room to grow both professionally and monetarily. It is definitely a step in the right direction for me because I'm on a management career path (as opposed to technical) and acting in the role of a coordinator provides good experience in both technical leadership and people leadership.

It should be fun ride!

FOAF

So, I created a new word. It's FOAF or FoaF.

It means "Friend of a Friend". Know that Jaress Loo just created it today shortly before the time of this post. Feel free to use this acronym for personal or commercial use.

Should you decide to use it, I'd love to know! Post a comment here!

Currrent Situation

So far 2010 has been good!

 

We just recently bought a new car for Lauren - a 2010 Hyundai Tucson. We've only had it for less than a week and it's just a great car! We got the limited, so we're benefiting and having fun with the GPS navigation, XM radio, leather seating, etc. It's VERY nice...definitely the nicest car I've owned. :)

 

As far as work goes for me, everything is going well. A lot of people are asking me if we're moving. The answer: I'm not sure. It's my time to get into a different job, but I'm not sure if that new position will be here in Bakersfield, Houston, or San Ramon. We're doing a lot of thinking and praying about whether to move or not to move. We're not sure what's going to happen, but we're praying that God will lead us in the right direction! Hopefully we'll find out something soon. The anticipation is killing us!!

 

Other than that, Chevron is going very well. They're a very good company and treating us well.

 

The boys are doing very well also! Knight was born last year in June and he's just been a joy to have! He's got a huge dimple on his right cheek and it's very cute. :) Cyrus LOVES playing with him and laughing with him. It's really cute to see them together.

 

I'll post some pictures when I get a chance, or you can check out our Picasa Web Albums.

WiseStamp for Firefox

WiseStamp for Firefox is a cool little addon that I recently found for Firefox.

It allows you to add signatures to virtually any email provider. It's kind of nice because it synchronizes all of your signatures across all of your email addresses (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.).

I have only been using it for a little bit, but so far, it's pretty nice. Check it out: http://www.wisestamp.com.

Primerica and Network Marketing

It's interesting how many people think that companies like Primerica is a "pyramid scheme."

There are SO many people who think that they know SO much about these types of opportunities, but they 'indeed' do not...

Before you jump all over me, you should know that I am not a representative of Primerica, nor do I personally know anyone in Primerica.

There are MANY different types of businesses out there. The two main types of business models out there are traditional business and MLM (multi-level marketing, network marketing, etc). In traditional business, the businesses rely on spending 90% of their money on advertising, whether it be tv commercials, postcards, telemarketing, etc. The problem with this type of advertising model is that MILLIONS of people don't care: they will throw away postcards, switch the station on commercials, and hang up on telemarketers. However, even though these people disregard the traditional business' advertising, the company STILL has to pay for it right? This is where multi-level MARKETING comes in.

In a legitimate and legal network marketing company the company pays its representatives (Primerica's reps) by the customer. It works very much the same way as a car lot pays it's employees. On a car lot, the salesman doesn't get paid unless he makes a sale. In a LEGITIMATE network marketing opportunity, just because you sponsor someone in the company means nothing, you actually have to help them get a customer or two.

Network marketing provides a way that any normal person can partner up with a company and start to build a true business WITHOUT having to put up the start up seed capital for starting it on their own. The reason why there is a fee is because you are purchasing the RIGHT to become a reseller of whatever company's product or service. Very much the same as ALL the companies out there that offer some sort of affliate program!

Come on guys and gals, do you REALLY think that if Primerica was doing something illegal that CitiGroup would be their mother company?

Do you seriously think that you, someone who spends their time doing "internet research", know the same things that the people who are on the legal team for CitiGroup know? Don't you think that if opportunities like this were illegal, companies like Mary Kay, Avon, Pampered Chef, Kirby, and all the other 198 well known companies listed here dsa.org/forms/CompanyFormPublicMembers/search?action=find would be put out of business? I think so...

Primerica, along with MANY other companies, is a legitimate business opportunity. Not EVERYTHING you see is "too good to be true."

With all that said...

I just wanted to tell everyone about an AWESOME opportunity for income. With Primerica, it may prove to be difficult to find enough business to keep your family afloat. Why? this is because once you have their service, there is only so much that they can do with you until you've made all the money you possibly can from them. Now what?! Now, you have to move on and find another person do either do business with or business for.

There is a brand new opportunity out there that was founded by the grandson of the founder of 7-11. The opportunity is called Ambit Energy. Think about this: instead of getting paid on the rare occasion that someone refinances their house or buys life insurance, what if it was even more simple than that?

What if you were paid every time someone paid their electricity or gas bill? Would it be easier to find customers? What if this company offered travel rewards for all their customers every time they paid their utilities bill? What if this company offered the ability to get FREE GAS AND ELECTRICITY for the rest of your life just for you, as a normal customer, referring 15 people to use their services? Would it be easier to find customers? Would it be easier to sell? Are you REALLY selling? How you can sell something that someone is already using? What if the price of gas and electricity is cheaper through the new company?

If I have piqued your interest in this company as customer, go here:

jaress.joinambit.com

If I have piqued your interest in this company as a consultant, go here:

jaress.ambitenergy.com
Click on "Our Opportunity" on the bottom right
If you are not in any of the states on the top right, choose "Texas"

The compensation plan for this company is OUT OF THIS WORLD and blows the top off of Primerica!

Visit the site today for more information. Feel free to email me at ambitopp@gmail.com or call at (661)302-4494

Before contacting me about being a consultant, please watch the video on my website first...

Global Domains Internatioal (GDI)

The question was: Have you ever heard of Global Domains International?

My response:

Yes. I have heard of Global Domains International. I was actually a part of it. I do think it's a legitimate way to make money. It combines the network marketing business model with the internet to make a legal and legit way to make some extra money.

It's probably one of the cheapest Network Marketing companies to be a part of (since it's free to start and then only $10 / month).

I did it for a few months and I made $0...

This is not to say that making money cannot be done with this program - I just didn't.

Once you get your website, you have to really market it yourself. I didn't have the time to put into this. I would say, if you know how to market something on the internet, then go ahead and give GDI a shot for a month. You'll only lose $10.

If you're worried about the cancellation policy, don't worry about it. I canceled my account and it was no problem at all.