Awesome article by SP5WWP, and I completely agree. As it turns out, a company still has to earn enough money, somehow, to pay salaries and overheads. There lies the rub: how to earn money. There is a Darwinian process that weeds out tasks that cannot be monetized, regardless of how interesting, useful or innovative. Many of us are not go…
Awesome article by SP5WWP, and I completely agree. As it turns out, a company still has to earn enough money, somehow, to pay salaries and overheads. There lies the rub: how to earn money. There is a Darwinian process that weeds out tasks that cannot be monetized, regardless of how interesting, useful or innovative. Many of us are not good businesspeople, so volunteer work is the only affordable option, even at the expense of personal health.
I don't have a solution, but of course I'd like to see one (or more).
Don - As I'll explain next week in a semi-rebuttal to SP5WWP, grants from ARDC can actually be a hybrid between purely voluntary work and purely professional work. Receiving an ARDC grant does not preclude paying for professional labor as part of a project, and SP5WWP chose not to be transparent about him being a beneficiary of that policy.
Awesome article by SP5WWP, and I completely agree. As it turns out, a company still has to earn enough money, somehow, to pay salaries and overheads. There lies the rub: how to earn money. There is a Darwinian process that weeds out tasks that cannot be monetized, regardless of how interesting, useful or innovative. Many of us are not good businesspeople, so volunteer work is the only affordable option, even at the expense of personal health.
I don't have a solution, but of course I'd like to see one (or more).
Don - As I'll explain next week in a semi-rebuttal to SP5WWP, grants from ARDC can actually be a hybrid between purely voluntary work and purely professional work. Receiving an ARDC grant does not preclude paying for professional labor as part of a project, and SP5WWP chose not to be transparent about him being a beneficiary of that policy.