The Flight to Permiedom

[NickFitz]

Backtracking

"In the last six months, we've received a marked increase in clients seeking advice about changing from freelance work or self-employment back to the career path they'd been following previously," says Jim Norris, managing director of www.careerclinic.co.uk.

Case study #1:

Olivia, who left a career in HR to start "an organic juicing business, and set up a stand at markets and festivals... My juice business was so unpredictable that I could make thousands in one weekend, or I could spend a fortune on organic produce, have no customers and a pile of expensive fruit going off. So it was a relief to have a monthly salary again."

Case study #2:

Rhona who, after working in PR for thirty years, went to France to live "...a completely different lifestyle - a run-down house, enjoying food and drink, supporting myself with a hotchpotch of jobs." But she found that she wasn't earning enough.

FFS, people...

[hyperD]

Case study #1:

"I'm a loser, please pay me because I'm not prepared to undertake a full SWOT analysis and the realisation of the importance of cash flow in my business and the likely returns"

Case study #2:

"I would have been better off flicking my bean rather than watching Beeny on TV."

[BlasterBates]

Zeity reminded me. CERN is preparing for the biggest physics experiment ever to find the elusive "Higgs Boson". The particle collision could generate a black hole, that would grow over time....and swallow the earth.

Doomed etc.....

[TimberWolf]

Zeity reminded me.

AKA seamless link from the topic of going permie to the Higgs Boson

[oracleslave]

Case study #1:

"I'm a loser, please pay me because I'm not prepared to undertake a full SWOT analysis and the realisation of the importance of cash flow in my business and the likely returns"

Case study #2:

"I would have been better off flicking my bean rather than watching Beeny on TV."

[moorfield]

Zeity reminded me. CERN is preparing for the biggest physics experiment ever to find the elusive "Higgs Boson". The particle collision could generate a black hole, that would grow over time....and swallow the earth.

Doomed etc.....

I read somewhere recently that the boffins have looked into this and ruled out any risk of (micro) black holes or quark stars (aka strangelets) being created. We should be worried about Hawking radiation though.

HTH.

[DaveB]

As long as they don't let it near the anomalous materials lab we'll be fine

[Moscow Mule]

As long as they don't let it near the anomalous materials lab we'll be fine

It's a "Black Mesa" incident waiting to happen.

Damn head-chickens.

[ferret]

As long as they don't let it near the anomalous materials lab we'll be fine

I got the crowbar ready. We will be OK.

[DiscoStu]

I got the crowbar ready. We will be OK.

I'm almost tempted to go and dig that out tonight, haven't played it in years!