Inform Asia Today

10 Most Hated Jobs

I have cited a poll result showing the 10 most loved jobs. It is quite interesting to note and compare this list with the 10 most hated jobs which were generally better paying jobs and put one into a much higher social status. What is striking also about the 10 most hated jobs list is that these relatively high level people are trapped in heirarchial bureaucracies. They see little point in what they are actually doing. The organizations they are working in do not know where they are going, and in the end these people hate these jobs.

1. Director of Information Technology

2. Director of Sales and Marketing

3. Product Manager

4. Senior Web Developer

5. Technical Specialist

6. Electronics Technician

7. Law Clerk

8. Technical Support Analyst

9. CNC Machinist

10. Marketing Manager

10 Most Hated Jobs

If you like my post, share/bookmark this by clicking any of the following:

More »

December 5th, 2011 | Posted in Humanities | No Comments

Wireless Portable Harddrive: Transcend StoreJet Cloud

Good news to Transcend advocates….they back with their latest product called StoreJet Cloud. It is sleek portable hard drive with wireless functionality compatible with iOS devices and any WiFi enabled devices. StoreJet Cloud Wireless Hard drive by Transcend can handle up to five devices streaming various types of media simultaneously. It is powered by a rechargeable Li-polymer battery capable of operating for 6 long hours of playback on a single charge. Read the rest of this entry »

If you like my post, share/bookmark this by clicking any of the following:

More »

December 4th, 2011 | Posted in Cool Gadgets | No Comments

10 Happiest Jobs

“A meaningful life must, in some sense then, feel worthwhile. The person living the life must be engaged by it. A life of commitment to causes that are generally defined as worthy — like feeding and clothing the poor or ministering to the ill — but that do not move the person participating in them will lack meaningfulness in this sense. However, for a life to be meaningful, it must also be worthwhile. Engagement in a life of tiddlywinks does not rise to the level of a meaningful life, no matter how gripped one might be by the game.” Todd May (New York Times)

The General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago has cited the 10 Happiest Jobs.

1. Clergy - The least worldly is reported to be the happiest of all

2. Firefighters – this job involves helping people and 80% of firefighters are “very satisfied” with their jobs.

3. Physical therapists -this also involves helping people and more social interaction which apparently are the reasons why this job is one of the happiest.

4. Authors - despite the ridiculously low or non existent pay for most authors, they are still happy because of the autonomy of writing down the contents of their own mind.

5. Special education teachers - averaging an annual income under $50,000, special education teachers surely don’t care about money. Read the rest of this entry »

If you like my post, share/bookmark this by clicking any of the following:

More »

December 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Humanities | No Comments

Inception Chair

Via http://www.nohodesigndistrict.com

As I browsed through the most STUMBLED UPON articles, I found this amazing inception chair designed by Vivian Chiu. It is a 16″ x 32″ x 16″ wooden chair with chairs placed within it that are progessively smaller. Each chair has hand cut grooves (ranging from 1/2″ to 1/8″ wide) on the inside edges of its seat frame as well as notches in the seat back. This chair archetype works so that the pegs fit into the grooves of the chair one size bigger and slides into place so that the horizontal edge between the chair seat and back line up. The smaller chairs can be taken apart from larger chair and can also be put together with ease. View images after the jump.

“Each chair has hand cut grooves on the inside edges of its seat frame as well as notches in the seat back. These grooves range from 1/2″ wide to 1/8″ wide.”

“The mechanism works so that the pegs fit into the grooves of the chair one size bigger and slides into place so that the horizontal edge between the chair seat and back line up. The simple mechanism allows the chairs to be taken apart and put together with ease.”

If you like my post, share/bookmark this by clicking any of the following:

More »

November 5th, 2011 | Posted in inventions | No Comments

10 Facts about Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs in many ways remain mysterious for all his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple and even in his death. Jobs has not disclosed many specifics about his personal life, his family life, and to the details about his battle with pancreatic cancer which ultimately caused his death at the age of 56.

Steves Jobs is best remembered and known as the CEO and co-founder of Apple, Inc, the creator of the world’s technological advancement. Steering away from public fascination with his private life, there are plenty of things you don’t know about his life beyond the Mac and the iPhone. Here are the 10 things you might have not known about Steve Jobs.

1. Childhood. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. Shortly after his birth, he was adopted and taken cared of by a couple named Carla and Paul Jobs near Mountain View, California. His adoptive father (a term Steve openly objected) was laser company machinist while his mother was an accountant. Later in life, Jobs traced the identities of his estranged parents, Joan Simpson, a speech pathologist and Abdulfattah John Jandalani, a Syrian Muslim who left his country at age 18 and served as the vice president of a Nevada Casino. Jobs and the Simpsons remained estranged despite the reconnection.

2. College Drop-out. Steve Jobs who is behind the most successful company on this planet never graduated from college. After finishing high school in Cupertino, California, a place synonymous to Apple Headquarter, Jobs entered Reed college in 1972 as a Liberal Arts student. He lasted only for a semester and dropped from college due to financial constraints.

Jobs once mentioned in his famous 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, “It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hari Krishna temple.” Read the rest of this entry »

If you like my post, share/bookmark this by clicking any of the following:

More »

November 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Entertainment New | No Comments

Are the latest smartphones superphones?

Mobile phone manufacturers never stop improving the already advanced and sophisticated smartphones in the market. As the evolution of mobile phones continue, many are now branding their phones from smartphone into superphones. But does the superphone name really mean anything? Is their really a big leap in features and capabilities from smartphone to superphone?

Giant smartphone manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, and Apple who are starting to call their latest high technology on mobile handsets to superphones, reiterated that they already have raised the bar so high that the term smartphone is inadequate to describe the revolutionary performance of these latest mobile devices. Nonetheless, many experts believe that they are already overstating the case. Read the rest of this entry »

If you like my post, share/bookmark this by clicking any of the following:

More »

November 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Technology | No Comments

USB Bottle Opener Flash Drive II

A new bottle opener con USB flash drive is now sold at Brandon.com. This new USB bottle opener flash drive version 2 measures 74mm x 33mm x 4mm and weighs 21 grams only. It supports the USB 2.0 interface and is completely compatible with Microsoft OS, Linux and Mac OS. Available in a 2 Gb, 4 Gb, and 8 Gb of memory storage, the new USB Bottle opener flash drive II are tagged at $16.00, $18.00 and $25.00, respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

If you like my post, share/bookmark this by clicking any of the following:

More »

November 1st, 2011 | Posted in Cool Gadgets | No Comments

New Mobile Phones News and Reviews: iPhone 4S camera

This is a repost from Latest Technology.

For many impromptu photographers, their mobile phone is their first choice camera. When a social situation arises that is worthy of a snapshot, 9 out of 10 of us will reach for our phones rather than our cameras. This is because phones have universal every day usage, and in many cases, are as good as cameras. The new iPhone markets itself as being your first choice camera. The endless Megapixels and durable lenses mean that image clarity is getting clearer and clearer. Read the rest of this entry »

If you like my post, share/bookmark this by clicking any of the following: