Take on a part time hustle or apprenticeship...

For those who are dead set in starting a company from the ground up or jumping into the world of Entrepreneurship.  I can’t help but to stress the fact that you have to crawl first, before you take the first step, or even sprint. If you take a look at the average corporate 40 hr work week, which usually consists of 9am -5pm, Monday to Friday, there is still ample time for you to start working on a part time hustle or apprenticeship.

Figuratively speaking, you can do some serious damage from the hours of 7pm-12am.  That’s another 20 productive working hours that you can use to either master a craft, or build the foundation to your future venture.   Multiply that times 50 weeks a year, and you have created 1000hrs of extra revenue generated activity.   From a quantitative approach, 1000hrs / 8hr full time work day =  125 work days!

The fact is that you have to learn to capitalize on the energy that your youth admits, while you are young, so you can reap the fruits of your labor in the long term (when you are old).   This means that you have to take on as much responsibility and accountability while you are young, in order to augment enough tacit (street) knowledge that you can use towards starting your dream venture.

For those whom are looking for a part time, or either full time grind, the Services Sector and Advertising Industry offers several evolving niches.  From social media development to design, the potential for income opportunities are limitless.  You just have to step outside of your comfort zone, invest in yourself, and look.

Influenced by the CNN Money article, “Young and restless”, an article that addresses the top 20 jobs for young movers and shakers on the come up. I couldn’t help but to address the following flourishing career as a Product/Brand Manager.

According to the study; (Source)

Median Pay: $90,100
Most people make: $63,000 (90%)
Top Earners: $108,600  (10%)

“You won't be senior management, but you will have control over developing, managing and marketing an assigned product line. In other words, you get to exercise business savvy and creativity. A sizable salary and launching pad to other high-level marketing jobs are part of the package.”

If you need some help researching, feel free to use the global search encyclopedia known as “GOOGLE”, or you can check out the following Social Media Job site. http://topsocialmediajobs.com/

Please note that we do not endorse the site in any way, we are just using it as an example.  It is a pretty legit job search site though.  Just saying..





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He who fights for honor... [Quote]

Often regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in European history, Hannibal would later be considered one of the greatest generals of antiquity, together with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, and Pyrrhus of Epirus.  (Source)

 

An excerpt from Hannibal's Ninety-Nine Truths...

He who fights for glory never lives long enough to hear the victory songs.

He who fights for gold is already blinded by the glitter and glare of his own greed, all to soon led astray by all things shiny.

He who fights for sport seldom finds the gods in a sporting mood.

He who fights for love must leave the one he loves the most behind so he can dance with the one 
he hates the most.

But he who fights for honor cannot be led astray. 

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You will take on this world alone...

During a conversation that I once had with Mr. Robert Greene on, “self reliance and what it takes to make it in this current volatile environment”, I couldn’t help but to appreciate his thoughts on taking on this world alone.  As he stated, “You were born in this world alone, you will take on this world alone, and you will die alone.”   To the context that the following statement is quite acrimonious to most conceptual values, the truth is that we are alone.  

It is this brutal conceptualization that must me conceptualized earlier on in our lives in order for us to be free of the propaganda that we are taught by are so called loved ones.   The truth is that we are alone, and that we must learn to discipline and master are own weaknesses in order to take on the world.   From time to time we will all be obstructed by variables that we could not control.  If conquered, these obstructions over time become the building blocks that form that foundations to empires.   Hannibal states in the Ninety Nine Truths, “ A first taste of defeat, though bitter, goes far to prepare your palate for future feasts.” 

As Dr. Lung states. “ The Samurai have a saying, “Nine times down, ten times up!” and so we learn from our mistakes – provided we survive of course, This adage has been taught a thousand ways across as many years. Steel can only be made by fire.  Learning to be a “good loser” really does build character…of course, learning to be a good winner pay dividends!”

Furthermore, the earlier that you learn to build self reliant characteristics, the earlier that you will have the self confidence to take on the world.  The world is yours… Vereour Nusquam 


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Questions & Bulletins that every aspiring entrepreneur should ask and live by...

Through the years, I have taken many volatile journeys.  From love to business ventures, the world of a young innovator is quite intriguing.   On the contrary, the journey has established many great friendships and has also destroyed many old ones.  As the world turns, one must have the myopia to keep on striving.
While in the Marines I learned that you need to constantly lead from the front.  This ethos has been ingrained in my mantra for many nights, as it has also been tested in the days.  For all those whom desire to take on the lonely and rewarding world of entrepreneurship, I have taken the time to write down some simple questions that one needs to ask, along with listing some bulletins that one needs to ingrain in there rationality.   Enjoy..

What drives you?

You have to wear what you are most comfortable with, so that you can perform your best work.

If your 70% sure than go for it.

You cannot be scared of change.

You have to look after your team, because they look after you.

You have to judge people on what they say and do.

Would you die for your brand?

Is your occupation or business a reflection of you?

Are you willing to put up with the hardships of the journey?

What is your business ethos?

You only really lose when you sell the shares.

Life is like a business, its 20% what happens to you and 80% how you respond.

If you are not growing than you are shrinking.

You need to stay consistent.

You never want to sacrifice clarity to be clever.

If you want to change your mindset and dynamic, you need to work and live outside of your comfort zone.

You need to constantly inspire and motivate yourself on a daily basis.

You need to find an industry with a void, do your due diligence, and run with it.

If you constantly lead, others will follow.

If you are not testing the boundaries, you are not working hard enough.

You need to work hard and with passion. 

You need to stay young and open minded.

You need to stay fanatical and with an industry long enough in order for you’re to experience the dividends.

Always ask yourself, “What more can you do?”

Stay Energetic and Enthusiastic, even when the world is against you.

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give and spend today?

No one can judge effort, effort can only be judged by you.

Every moment is a new moment.

Never let your enemies choose the battlefield.

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Mistakes are natural...

"We sometimes lose sight of the fact that our primary objective is really to be happy as possible and that all our other objectives, great and small, are only a means that end. To the degree we achieve our subojectives, and to the extent these subojectives are rational, we feel good.... Every man has the natural right to pursue his own happiness in any way he chooses and to retain ownership over all the fruits of his labor, so long as he does not forcibly interfere with the same rights of others." - Ibid

Context to the belief that what makes us happy is the rational of our own conceptual pursuit of happiness.  Now the question is .... What makes you happy?

From the preferential bias of a young man on the grind, happiness has become the many days and lonely nights of constant work.  As work has become his passion, and that passion has paid dividends. 

To the context of the quote above, "Every man has the natural right to pursue his own happiness." Therefore, one's own level of myopia cannot be dictated nor judged by another.  Hence, you are free to make the choices that govern your life, without the usage of physical force and the constraint of others testing your will.

Furthermore, do not let fear or mistakes hold you back.  Mistakes are natural, and people and those who love you will judge you upon them.  But judgment is natural and so are mistakes, so get over it.  I will end the following posting with another great quote by Ibid.

"Don't Let your mistakes be your excuse for quitting. Everybody makes mistakes - you're allowed a few... just not the same ones: The bottom line is to keep moving forward toward the solution of your problems. If others make mistakes in judging you, that's their problem.  It's also not unusual: people make mistakes every day." 

The world is yours.... Vereour Nusquam

  

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An Interview with Lead Design of NIKE Sportswear *Gemo Wong* [Video]

"The road that I took there are tons of bumps, probably more bumps than successes, but what I have tried to learn is those lessons through those bumps. With every loss there is a lesson. That mindset is what has made me a better person and a better designer."- Gemo Wong

This is an aspiring and one of a kind interview with Lead Designer of Nike Sportswear Gemo Wong.  Gemo Wong takes the time to speak with HueTv in takes the interview behind the scenes at Nike's corporate office.  Gemo Wong has run the operations at such veracious Urban Brands like Enyce, Phat Farm, Girbaud and Sean John.   

No Copyright infringement intended; all material belongs to HueTv

Foreword + interview by Justin Lintag
Stills by Kenn Navarra, Androne Ravalo
Film by Mario & Marlon Soriano

"Passion drives Nike, and it also drives the culture."- Gemo Wong (Source)

 

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With pain comes beauty…

To the context of the everyday man, or so called anthropoid… “I’ve always wanted to use that word”… one must understand that beauty is skin deep.  Now from the context of several diligent and sedulous entrepreneurs, suffering and struggle are both characteristics that become disciplines and arts over time.  As suffering and struggle compound over time, and as days turn into years, disciplines become diamonds.   Very intriguing allusions to understand, but over time and through the value of pain… become everyday figures of speech.   The following quote states it best…..
 
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

As I took about a week or two from writing, I couldn’t help but to feel the pain from not typing or holding a pen.  Through the years, the simple form of expression has acted as a form of therapy and with some direction, I have learned to use it as a leveraging tool.   Hence the beauty of the allusion above…”with pain comes beauty.”   Furthermore…master your pain…and over time…. you will master your craft… #Vereour Nusquam    

Stepping up to the bully...

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must choose...

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me." -Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray