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here chick chick chicken - norral - 07-16-2010
i just saw a cool story on the news. a young couple in fairfield
conneticut left the corporate world and started a chicken business.
but not what u think not chickens for eating chickens as pets.
their annual gross right now is about 1 million not bad. they sell
chickens and all related chicken paraphenalia. the funniest thing was
a chicken diaper for chickens kept indoors lol.
just goes to show that u dont need the corporate world what u
need is a passion and the courage to follow it
norral
RE: here chick chick chicken - Questioner - 07-16-2010
Norral, you have the headline of the day! Thanks for the laugh!
That's a cool story. I read about someone who was trying to get horse diapers for the horse drawn carriages in New York's Central Park. Apparently this is already the fashion for some of the horses in London!
Your comment about the corporate world reminded me of Lawrence Peter. A lot of people might have heard of the Peter Principle, a masterpiece of cynical realism that affects big business and big government: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." The cause of the Peter Principle is people who feel they have to climb a ladder for pay or prestige, but the next rung has nothing to do with the heartfelt joy and natural talents of the climber.
A lot of people don't know that Dr. Peter had fun with a follow up book, The Peter Prescription. In this book he suggests that everyone figure out what brings meaning and happiness to his or her own life. Get to your own level of competence and then stop trying to climb anyone else's ladder.
I think Dr. Peter would have been delighted with the couple in Fairfield.
Maybe they'll open a second location in the Hamptons, so that rich people's summer vacations can include changing the chickens! If Madoff had been humbled in this pecking order, might he have given up his wicked ways?
RE: here chick chick chicken - norral - 07-17-2010
(07-16-2010, 06:24 PM)Questioner Wrote: Norral, you have the headline of the day! Thanks for the laugh!
That's a cool story. I read about someone who was trying to get horse diapers for the horse drawn carriages in New York's Central Park. Apparently this is already the fashion for some of the horses in London!
Your comment about the corporate world reminded me of Lawrence Peter. A lot of people might have heard of the Peter Principle, a masterpiece of cynical realism that affects big business and big government: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." The cause of the Peter Principle is people who feel they have to climb a ladder for pay or prestige, but the next rung has nothing to do with the heartfelt joy and natural talents of the climber.
A lot of people don't know that Dr. Peter had fun with a follow up book, The Peter Prescription. In this book he suggests that everyone figure out what brings meaning and happiness to his or her own life. Get to your own level of competence and then stop trying to climb anyone else's ladder.
I think Dr. Peter would have been delighted with the couple in Fairfield.
Maybe they'll open a second location in the Hamptons, so that rich people's summer vacations can include changing the chickens! If Madoff had been humbled in this pecking order, might he have given up his wicked ways?
its so true what u say questioner doing something u enjoy is a key
to being happy imo. bernie madoff imo was a sociopath he cared nothing
about the effects of his actions on others he was all about him. u
could compare him to ted bundy except he didnt kill people
physically he killed them financially. i was talking to my friend the
other night and we both agreed that u cannot be happy in this life
unless u make others happy that is for sure. there are so many people
who appear to have everything and yet they are miserable because
they havent yet realized this. i consider myself fortunate to do
something that i enjoy .
norral