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Working Well = Working Together
I'm 'bothered' by a lot of things - some trivial, some systemic, most somewhere in between.
I'm also regularly chastised for "not being a team player", "not asking for help" and generally trying to solve huge problems on my own. (There are reasons for this intractable independence, but I've been told no one's interested in that amount of background, so I won't go into them here.)
So... I'm looking for co-conspirators, collaborators, partners in crime, to work with on some of the things that 'bother' me!
This page will be regularly updated with points of frustration in need of solutions - if you have ideas, or are working on the same pain point, and want to get together, drop me an email: theproductivepessimist@yahoo.com
The Problems:
1. It should be a lot easier than it is for adults to change careers; another aspect of this problem (perhaps the root of it) is the lack of quality careers guidance in schools.
2. We need access to forms of capital which don't rely on having a bank account, or being able to extensively verify your identity, so that marginalised people, including homeless and displaced people, are able to rebuild, and enjoy the same quality of life it's assumed "everyone" in the West benefits from.
3. There should be an "Amazon for farmers" - but a lot more human. Sheep farmers in the UK typically just dispose of fleece, because UK prices for wool are so dire - and yet there is a HUGE market for it beyond the British Wool Board; that market, however, is made up of individuals, rather than a "one and done" point of sale - farmers work long hours, they have limited opportunity to leave their farms (especially livestock farmers), and so getting a decent price from eager buyers needs to be made as simple and straightforward as possible.