No, not by the company that makes iPhone. Apple Investment Company runs a  investment service in Australia. It’s not easy writing this since I’ve always believed that if you don’t have anything good to say about someone, then don’t say anything at all. Apple Investment Company did have some positives but unfortunately, the overwhelming negatives made the experience regrettable. This page is dedicated to sharing my experiences with the hope that it may persuade you to not use them so that you too will save your money. I need to be very careful with what I say here. I am not a licensed financial service provider so I can only comment on the facts of my dealings with them.

If you’ve had a poor experience with them, please comment.

More updates coming this week.

Each week, every IT employee contributes an idea to improve our core technology. Out of habit, the sub-conscious brain will be thinking about these ideas if it is asked. Every brain has a good idea waiting to be found. It just needs to be asked.

Improved Customer Service

The word of mouth advertising that can be received from exceptional customer is priceless. Without customer service employees being responsible for leading the innovation of customer service, we’d have pretty average customer service.

Employees that Own

Money is a need, not a want. Therefore, a salary beyond a need, is not a good motivator. Humans need more than money. Sure, VroomVroomVroom pays decent salaries, but this is more because the company is doing well. After watching this video on What Motivates you, you may agree that a culture of innovation is a far greater motivator.

The’re getting married tomorrow. Terminator is their favourite movie, so I shopped this for them with my noob skills.

2. Earning a degree helps, but isn’t necessary. Without a degree, it’s more important to show you have the skills with demos. It also means an employer can use the lack of degree as an excuse to pay you less. A tafe course or short course will help with legitimacy as an alternative

3. Get a professional email address for applications. warez32, bigdog, ladiesman69 is kind of dodgy sounding. I know it’s fun, but I don’t know you yet, and I use everything I can to try to judge you quickly.

4. Make your CV easily accessibly. I don’t have Microsoft office. Don’t save as docx. Host your CV somewhere without ads. Google Docs would be a good choice.

5. Get some real paid experiance. It doesn’t matter where from. Get an odesk account and apply for jobs on there http://freelanceswitch.com/finding/how-to-win-any-job-on-elance-odesk-or-gurucom/

6. Contribute to an opensource project or even start an opensource project of your own. Obviously include this in your demo portfolio and CV.

7. Teach yourself about SEO and mention this in your CV and demos. This is very important to companies now. You may find you really enjoying it. If you do, choose a niche to try to rank a keyword for as a demonstration.

Don’t cheat!  Try to figure it out.

I stole the extract below from the website http://www.buyoptimus.com/

How It All Began

Please let me explain more and I’ll tell you what this is all about….We’ll start where it all began, deep inside the psyche of the mastermind behind Optimus….

Inside the head of Optimus’ creator

Let me tell you about the master artist behind Optimus. Imagine a person who was so obsessed with his craft, that he lived and breathed Optimus, his journey’s, his battles, his flaws. Day and night, for 3 whole months he immersed himself in getting to know this great leader.

He watched every transformers movie, every television episode (starting from the beginning original cartoon series) and read every comic book he could find.

He felt he could never create a true representation of Optimus unless he felt he knew him personally. And he did. He could tell you what Optimus favourite sayings were, what he’d do in certain battle situations, and how he has changed over time, and even become (dare we say it?) a little more human.

Then, over a two week period he visited every scrapyard, every car yard, every mechanic and asked every friend he could to attain the raw materials to create Optimus. He spent close to $10,000 buying the raw materials, which were pulled from lawnmowers, cars, trucks, chainsaws, motorbikes, toolsheds, factory machines and anything else he could think of..

Then, he locked himself away for 75 days and nights, with only a welding instrument and a few other basic power tools, and out emerged Optimus.

Some of The Raw Materials Used During Optimus’ Creation

A Strong Foundation of Welded Metal Car Parts Forms Optimus’ Frame

If you know a collector who would want it, there is a finders fee. Check out http://www.buyoptimus.com/

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You can use this theme for any private or commercial use.
If you keep the link in the footer then you are truely fruity. Thanks!

Instructions
1. Eat a piece of fruit.
2. Unzip and upload the FruitBox folder to wp-content/themes/
3. Activate the theme in wordpress
4.  Add a category called “Featured” and add some funky posts to it. They will show in the center footer under “Featured Posts”. Of course, if you add a widget to this section then the widget will override this featured posts thingy.
5. Eat another piece of fruit. Maybe a strawberry or 2.

Great News!
This theme will be improved with a new feature EVERY time someone new uses it.
How? If you use this theme, notify me at http://eastes.com.au . I will then improve it.
You will be adding to the fruitbox, just by using it.
How fruity!

Thanks to
To http://www.VroomVroomVroom.com for renting out fun cars and funding the project.
To http://CaptainCaptain.com for giving me permission to give this fruity theme away.
To Wordpress for making an awesome blogging / CMS platform

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Peace out Fruity ones.

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