I started this blog on my 80th birthday, 22 April 2009. Mostly this blog is the result of mining my hard drive, which contains stuff I have written dating back to 1939. (No, I didn't have a hard drive back then, but I have since keyed in hard copy.). I have been trying to include a variety of kinds of content. Categories now include: autobiography, drama, economics, essay, fable, futures studies, humor, poetry, politics, satire, short stories, and stuff to think about.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Self-Improvement: Become an Expert Consultant

I get how-to-do-it book ads almost every day. Evidently it is a booming business, and so I have decided to enter it myself. Here is a sample ad that I am considering mailing to a carefully selected mailing list of 100,000,000 persons.

BECOME AN EXPERT!

More and more, these days, government, business, and industry are turning to expert consultants for advice and help. That's where the real money is. Why be a wage slave, when you can earn a couple of thousand dollars for just a few hours of your time dishing out opinions and advice? Whether you are right or wrong won't matter, because you won't have to live with the consequences -- the people who pay you will.

All you have to do to earn those big consulting fees is to become an expert. Best, of course, is to be an expert who has no competitors, because you are the world's only expert in your particular field of expertise.

How do you accomplish this? Easy: Our new Expert Ease program will enable you to become an expert, and we guarantee exclusive expertise for a period of at least six months, enough time for you to make your killing and either retire or go on to instant expertise in some new field.

For this remarkable service, we will charge you a modest $495.00 (plus any applicable local sales taxes). That, of course, could be less than what you earn in one morning once you complete the course!

One of our outstanding graduates, B. W. W. of Hindustan, Indiana, writes: "I was earning less than $200 a week as a plumber's helper. Then I became the world's only expert in intelligence testing of domestic plants. Now I earn $200 an hour on the lecture circuit, and I have just signed my first book contract for a book on how to raise your garden's IQ."

J. C. J. of Wall, South Dakota writes: "I was marking time working as a waitress after the telephone company replaced me with automated equipment. I thought that my chances of hitting the big money were over. Then I invested my life savings in your course. Your book, "How To Become an Instant Expert," taught me how to become the world's first travel agent arranging trips to the past. Business was slow at first, but with the help of your advice on how to advertise my services, I was soon serving more than 10 clients a month, at more than $15,000 each!"

The rapid pace of development of new technologies, and rapid changes in society, assure that more and more new fields of expertise will be needed, and there will continue to be a shortage of experts until well into the 22nd century! You must have rocks in your head if you pass up this opportunity to make big bucks!

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  • autobiography: http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/04/autobiography-guilt-edged-bonds.html
  • drama: "Street Crime": http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/05/street-crime.html
  • Economics: Comments on macroeconomic theory: http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/06/comments-on-macroeconomic-theory.html
  • essays: http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/05/essays.html
  • fable: "Old Father Jonas": http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/06/old-father-jonas.html
  • future studies: "The Most Significant Events of the Next Thousand Years": http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/04/most-significant-events-of-next.html
  • http://nexialistics-poetry.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-started-this-blog-on-my-80th-birthday.html
  • humor: "Self-Improvement: Become an Expert Consultant": http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/06/self-improvement-become-expert.html
  • poetry: 1st decade: http://nexialistics-poetry.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-started-this-blog-on-my-80th-birthday.html
  • poetry: 2nd decade: http://nexialistics-poetry.blogspot.com/2009/08/2nd-decade.html
  • poetry: 3rd decade: http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/05/3rd-decade.html
  • poetry: Poetry Index: http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/05/index.html
  • politics: Theodore Roosevelt's speech: http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/05/Theodore-Roosevelts-speech.html
  • satire: "Dick, Jane, and Joe; My New First Reader": http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/06/Dick-Jane-And-Joe-My-New-First-Reader.html
  • short story: "After the Oakland Hills Fire": http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/07/after-oakland-hills-fire.html
  • short story: "Catastrophe Insurance": http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/05/catastrophe-insurance.html
  • short story: "Harry": http;//nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/05/harry.html
  • short story: "Palimpsest": http://nexialistics.blogspot.com/2009/05/palimpsest.html

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I have taught in college or university departments of business, computer science, economics, management, mathematics, psychology, public administration, social science, social work, and statistics. Research interests include development of computer programs for analyzing an individual's semantic space, laying the groundwork for intercommunication about "private" affect; interactions of mind, body, and universe. I have about 200 professional publications and papers at major scientific meetings. Current projects include: participation in and support of practice and study of Nonviolent Communication, helping organize and support Network of Spritual Progressive activities, participation in prostate cancer support, and participation in Kehilat Chaverim, a volunteer cooperative rabbi-less and synagogue-less Jewish congregation. I am currently writing a new gender-neutral and non-tribal Jewish prayer book.