If the US spends so much money on the millitary, why are their soldiers paid slave wages?
There is a lot of information not included in the comparison. In the United States Army a private comes in and earns the stated amount, but is provided housing and other benefits that are not included in part of the employment contract of some other countries. Additionally, the Private holds that rank for six months, effectively, the probationary period of employment and coincidentally what is the primary training phase of a new hire. In six months the Private receives a promotion and a substantial pay increase to PV-2, six months after that the Private (Second Class) is promoted again to Private First Class, again with a substantial pay increase. Specialist is granted after another year in service. Promotions after that are merit based and not time based and that again comes with a significant pay raise. Benefits for enlisted soldiers include housing, education assistance, professional schools, sustenance and health insurance balances out the employment and compensation package. What you are looking at in this instance are the initial entry cash compensation, and in the United States, compared to the Commonwealth of British States, we have a different system and practice of initial entry compensation. You are correct though, having served a lot with Australian soldiers, I don't think there is a lot of difference between the two in generalized comparisons. One of the other things you have to understand is what is the balance of spending in our national defense budget. Much of it goes to support the Security Agreement requirements the United States has entered into, along with many other countries, including Australia, to develop and professionalize military and security forces in the developing world, providing fiduciary support we are contractually obligated to provide to the United Nations for peace-keeping and security operations as well as Humanitarian Assistance around the world. Many of these UN obligations are based on percentages of that countries GDP, and the United States population is significantly larger than Australia. We have 307 million people as compared to 21 million in Australia. Therefore, our GDP is going to be significantly higher, as will the comparable percentage of our GDP.
I day trade so I might be able to at least point you in the right direction.By investing, I'm assuming you mean the fincial markets. If not, a few hundred isn't much. Possibly e-commerce if you have some skills but, I'll go with the former.A few platforms are E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, and Fidelity. I use Fidelity, no real reason but they have low commisions. $4.95/trade. There is a platform called Robinhood but it is only a mobile app. The good thing about this platform is that it is commission free. That's right, 0 commissions. The downside to Robinhood is that it is on a phone with no usable charts built in. You could use a computer along side it, but I just don't like that. Also with Robinhood you can't day trade (3 or more trades a day in a 5 day period) unless you have $25,000.So, open an account listed above and make sure you meet their minumum deposit requirements.You could also buy gold/silver, trade FOREX, or binary options aka the casino of trading.I'd just buy some silver if I were you until you can make consistent investment contributions or learn skills to trade.
EBaying the right to prevent an Abortion?
I was thinking to myself about absurd eBay auctions...I remember reading about a girl who auctioned her virginity on the site, as I recall an Australian businessman paid millions of dollard to take her v-card. I had an idea for another such auction, (no, I'm not in this position, and will not actually be doing it): Say you were a single, pregnant, teenage girl with no parents to lean on, who didn't want to have the baby and have to live in poverty on government assistance. You feel that your best option is to have an abortion, not wanting the child to grow up with nothing. Could you hold an auction on eBay, allowing people to bid on the opportunity to allow you to keep your child versus aborting it? The winning bidder, (with some minimum dollar amount set of course), would buy the right for your child to live. In the process you could/would make enough money to buy a proper home, upbringing, and education for the child. Were you in this destitute position would you consider doing this? Would it work? Would it be legal? How much would you pay as the bidder? Thanks!
College graduate needs to know how to find a fitting job?
You don't need a job, you need an income. A job is a TYPE of income, but is not the only SOURCE of income. When you think that you can only get an income through a job, you limit yourself to searching for jobs, while blinding yourself to the true nature of income. Ask yourself: What can I do that people would be willing to pay me $____ to do? Fill in the blank with a whole number denomination between $1 and $100, and try to think of something that people would actually pay you that dollar value to do. When you add it up, you will realize that you can make more money per hour as an Entrepreneur, than what you would be paid per hour as an employee working for minimum wage. The key is to be paid per transaction instead of per hour. Imagine you found a summer job that paid you $6 an hour. Working 8 hours, your gross income (before taxes) would be only $48 dollars. Now, asking the question: What can I do that people would be willing to pay me $20 to do? You would make $20 in a single transaction for doing something that may take you only 15 minutes. If you have three clients and can service them all in one hour, your gross income would be $60 per hour. If you had enough clients to fill an 8 hour day (3 clients @ $60 an hour), that would be 24 clients each paying you $20 for a total gross of $480 for an 8 hour day (compared to $48 dollars @ $6 an hour). That is 10 times the revenue you would make above minimum wage for the same amount of time. Actually, you would make $480 for 6 hours of labor if you were paid $20 for every 15 minutes.
There are many factors because of that software professional change jobs some of them are below.Less hike during anual appraisals.Work pressure and long working hours.More technical demand from one person. If a developer working in one technology then manager expect same developer should work on other technologies.Most of the time managers tell developers to change their technology according to clients demand.Change in Roles: some time it might happen. A developer is hire for development role. But management push developers in support projects because of no development projetcs.Worst management of mentors.Micro management.Delay in monthly salaries ( in start-up companies)Layoff, if loss in companies business or no work available for that person.Location, if developers don't like location or facing health issues or some personal issues.Etc, will add more reasons laterENJOY Some funny definitions of designations in IT:1) Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in One month.2) Developer is a Person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby.3) Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.4) Client is the one who doesn't know why he wants a baby.5) Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and woman are available.6) Resource Optimization Team thinks they don't need a man or woman; they'll produce a child with zero resources.7) Documentation Team thinks they don't care whether the child is delivered, they'll just document 9 months.8) Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with the PROCESS to produce a baby.9) Tester is a person who always tells his wife that this is not the Right baby.10) HR is a person who thinks that a donkey can deliver a human baby if given 9 months.Wonderful definitions of designations reference : http://www.hecr.tifr.res.in/~bsn/GOOD/definitions.pdfCheers..!!
EBaying the right to prevent an Abortion?
I was thinking to myself about absurd eBay auctions...I remember reading about a girl who auctioned her virginity on the site, as I recall an Australian businessman paid millions of dollard to take her v-card. I had an idea for another such auction, (no, I'm not in this position, and will not actually be doing it): Say you were a single, pregnant, teenage girl with no parents to lean on, who didn't want to have the baby and have to live in poverty on government assistance. You feel that your best option is to have an abortion, not wanting the child to grow up with nothing. Could you hold an auction on eBay, allowing people to bid on the opportunity to allow you to keep your child versus aborting it? The winning bidder, (with some minimum dollar amount set of course), would buy the right for your child to live. In the process you could/would make enough money to buy a proper home, upbringing, and education for the child. Were you in this destitute position would you consider doing this? Would it work? Would it be legal? How much would you pay as the bidder? Thanks!
Online Stock Purchase… Where? Experience with ComputerShare?
Clearly no one here knows anything about direct stock purchase plans. You are going to get killed with fees by listening to people who are not educated about stock purchase options. First advice: DON'T ASK PEOPLE FOR ADVICE. Do your OWN research - you should have looked these things up online, or called the company - not asking Yahoo Answers. Let me tell you what I do. For my stocks that I buy big large amounts of at once, and do not have dividend reinvestment or recurring purchases for, I have with a brokerage firm. If I know that I want to buy roughly $1000 of XYZ stock at relatively specific price per share, I will 100% purchase it with the broker, because you cannot be 100% sure what price you are going to get with the transfer agent. However, unless you are in an extremely volatile market, or are purchasing very LARGE amounts (I'd say over 10k+), the price you get really won't make too much of a difference in the long run. For LONG-TERM stocks that I invest a small amount in each month, and therefore am not that concerned with the purchase price per share, I have them with the transfer agent (Computershare). If you are making MULTIPLE recurring purchases over a long period of time, no doubt the fees will be WAY less than with a broker. For example, if a brokerage firm charges $5-7 each time you purchase, and you purchase a small amount each month, that's almost $72 in fees a YEAR! Holy crap. With a DSPP, the fees from the money coming out of your bank account and the transaction fee per share in most cases will not exceed $3 per transaction at the VERY most. You may have an "initial investment fee" for your first purchase, but in the long run, it will be cheaper.