I work at a very large aerospace contactor. We have been told that we are not looking for PHD's as they usually have too little practical skills, require too high of salaries and cause compensation compression.
Myopic yes, but HR rules the "getting your foot in the door"
Get your PHD because YOU want it. That will see you through all the politics of getting a PHD over the technical issues. Most teach, a few consult and fewer are considered SME's (subject matter experts) in large companies.
I set up a homebased business for my wife. Here are some tricks.
Example http://BeauClassics.com
1) Get a mail order, mobile or software business license. These usually require no particular zoning.
2) Get a federal tax ID number.
3) Create a product that will sell to busineses (if software) or to the masses as a product.
4) Get a second personal phone line and tie it to a computer based answering service (http://www.01com.com - I use communicate pro)
or use ureach.com for $4.99 per month for a 1-800 number and email etc.
5) Become a member of a Credit Union and open a DBA, Doing Business As Account, I pay $5.00 per month where at a commercial bank it is $30.00 per month.
6) Make the product a time saver and not too complex or unique, but search the web for your competition and out price them or make it better.
7) Price the product below $300.00 for credit card purchases as most companies can purchase to this amount without get purchase approvals.
8) Get a.com name that describes your company by name or purpose. $13.95 per year at http://000domains.com
9) Go to dr2.net to set up a $20.00 year server.
10) Use the dr2.net shared SSL certificate for credit card purchases.
11) Become an Executive Member of Costco. Create some product flyers and apply to Nova information systems through the Costco membership as a credit card merchant. Now you can take Visa, MC and American Express. Tie your DBA account to the Nove account
12) Get cable or DSL for your home server. Run Apache on Windows with PHP and MySQL. Reference http://www.dslwebserver.com/ for help.
13) Create your web site using HTML-Kit (free), Apache, PHP and MySql (All free)
14) Use the dr2.net shopping cart or create your own like I did. Have the orders email themselves to you and an automatic order confirmation back to the customer.
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I work at a very large aerospace contactor. We have been told that we are not looking for PHD's as they usually have too little practical skills, require too high of salaries and cause compensation compression.
Myopic yes, but HR rules the "getting your foot in the door"
Get your PHD because YOU want it. That will see you through all the politics of getting a PHD over the technical issues. Most teach, a few consult and fewer are considered SME's (subject matter experts) in large companies.
Do it for the knowledge not the money.
I set up a homebased business for my wife.
.com name that describes your company by name or purpose. $13.95 per year at http://000domains.com
Here are some tricks.
Example
http://BeauClassics.com
1) Get a mail order, mobile or software business license. These usually require no particular zoning.
2) Get a federal tax ID number.
3) Create a product that will sell to busineses (if software) or to the masses as a product.
4) Get a second personal phone line and tie it to a computer based answering service (http://www.01com.com - I use communicate pro)
or use ureach.com for $4.99 per month for a 1-800 number and email etc.
5) Become a member of a Credit Union and open a DBA, Doing Business As Account, I pay $5.00 per month where at a commercial bank it is $30.00 per month.
6) Make the product a time saver and not too complex or unique, but search the web for your competition and out price them or make it better.
7) Price the product below $300.00 for credit card purchases as most companies can purchase to this amount without get purchase approvals.
8) Get a
9) Go to dr2.net to set up a $20.00 year server.
10) Use the dr2.net shared SSL certificate for credit card purchases.
11) Become an Executive Member of Costco. Create some product flyers and apply to Nova information systems through the Costco membership as a credit card merchant. Now you can take Visa, MC and American Express. Tie your DBA account to the Nove account
12) Get cable or DSL for your home server. Run Apache on Windows with PHP and MySQL. Reference http://www.dslwebserver.com/ for help.
13) Create your web site using HTML-Kit (free), Apache, PHP and MySql (All free)
14) Use the dr2.net shopping cart or create your own like I did. Have the orders email themselves to you and an automatic order confirmation back to the customer.
That is about it...
Makaha