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Taking a Gap Year can be an experience of a lifetime and making the most of a Gap Year adventure is super important. Here is an infographic adapted from the FirstStep.me Gap Year Guide to help make better and more informed decisions about taking a Gap Year!
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Definition: A gap year is a period where an individual takes a time out or sabbatical between work, study or various life stages. The time frame varies and is not always specifically a year. The Gap Year is individual specific and is determined by what he/she wants to achieve or extract from the gap year. An open ended life adventure!
What is gained from a Gap Year: various levels of experiences on a personal, professional or skills basis...the University of Life!
Popular Gap Year destinations: The manner in which Gap Years have been commercialised over the past years has led to the whole planet becoming an open platform to have a Gap Year adventure! Research is needed to be done into the destination ranging from Visa and passport requirements, medical clearance etc.
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"To open a company you have to have the right network, the right disciplines, and choose the right timing to be mature enough to go to market successfully."- Janine Hills
Where are on the planet are you currently based? Johannesburg, South Africa
You started a business that focuses on corporate reputation management, called Vuma Reputation Management, that sounds almost out the box but very much needed in the business sector, how and why did you start the business? It’s very much out of the box. Yes, in fact when we named the company and sent out a test to ten leading executives, all ten came back saying, Yes, the market is ready! One very prominent person in marketing did however ask “what the hell is that?” So yes, the industry has evolved certainly over the last 7 years and continues to evolve and the importance of reputation management is becoming more and more a factor, especially in government and corporate and entrepreneurial environments. My career started when I worked in the hotel industry for years, because I was not able to attend university due to financial restraints. I then moved from the hotel industry into telecoms and eCommerce, then into banking and then finally founding “Vuma Reputation Management”. It’s no accident that having worked in those sectors and in respectable corporates, that I personally learnt about financial discipline, sales, marketing and the will to serve – all of which has culminated in making a successful company.
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"Actively seek opportunities to be exposed to new thinking and to meeting new people. You never know where new ideas might come from and where new connections might lead."- Maya Shino
Where are on the planet are you currently based? Wellington, NZ- living in beautiful Mt Victoria :)
You co-founded a website call Lawspot.org, tell us more and how did it all come about? LawSpot is a website that uses a Q+A platform that helps make it easier for New Zealanders to access and understand the law. Members of the public can ask their legal questions and LawSpot's qualified lawyer volunteers will answer them for free. LawSpot operates under an innovative public-private partnership model with Community Law Wellington and Hutt Valley (CLWHV), a community law centre in the Wellington region. All answers are monitored and approved by CLWHV before they can be published. It is the first website in Australasia to use this public-private partnership approach to address unmet legal needs. The website has been running in private beta since May and publicly launched on 1 August 2012.
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Part 2: Obvious but thoughtful questions to ask a trader
Big Kastenmann
Being a trader is like being a businessman and an athlete, this is the statue that sums it up perfectly. Erwin Wurm "Big Kastenmann" @ the Standard Hotel, NYC
1. How steady is an income for a Trader?
Income for a full time trader is almost all based on trading success or losses. Unfortunately, income is not stable and is based on profits made as a trader, which is fairly unpredictable and unstable, for good and for bad! Although when managing other peoples money, traders may be paid a management fee and a performance fee, based on how much they make for their investors.
2. What are the working hours a trader has during a regular week?
This depends on what markets a trader is trading in, it could be day, it could be night. 24 hours a day markets are open somewhere on the planet to trade something. So a trader could work as much or as little as they like.
Read more: The Trading Game with Daniel Weston : Questions of a Trade
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