There are still people like me. We are a growing number. We Choose BlackBerry 10

#IChooseBlackBerry10

A simple blog post, representing the feeling of many within the community has sparked a movement on Twitter and brought the community closer together to fight for their Platform of Choice.

Almost 1000 People are going to participate in an social media event on Tuesday 24^th of September to ensure as many people as possible are becoming aware of the technological advances and capabilities which are hidden within the new operating system.

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/3946-ichooseblackberry10

To the community, the current state of affairs is clear and they are there to support the company while the transition is taking place.

Having read Michael Kane's article shortly before the earnings report, all I was able to conclude was that nothing has changed and Thorsten Heins is following the plan, he set out when he became CEO.

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I watched a former Apple (AAPL-Q 469.56 -2.74 -0.58%) executive being interviewed about BlackBerry on Bloomberg TV some time ago. He gave the business interpretation of Bridges Transition Theory, saying BlackBerry is not unique - the three-stage transition is typically used by technology companies needing to refocus. Stage one: trim the payroll and sell non-core assets. Stage two: refocus to find the new, productive niche. Stage three: use that new focus to execute, grow the business in a new direction, grow shareholder value. Then, when you’re able to get the best shareholder value, sell, if appropriate.

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Let’s recap the last few days:

Wednesday 18^th September:

·         Announcement of the Z30 in Malaysia

·         BBM launching on the 21^st and 22^nd for Android and iOS

·         WSJ Article mentioning 40% Job Cuts

Thursday 19^th September:

·         Security leaks found in iOS7 here and here

Friday 20^th September:

·         Release of Q2 2014 results with 17% drop in Price

·         Announcement of 4.500 Job cuts

·         Focus on Prosumer

Saturday 21^st and Sunday 22^nd:

·         BBM not released to the Google Play store for Android

·         Google Play store plagued by Fakes, which are quickly taken down

·         Successful staggered launch for iPhones

·         BlackBerry is halting rollout midway

During the last few days Blackberry has begun to get into stage 3 with focusing on the userbase they are currently having with the low key event in Malaysia, announcing the release of the Z30 and the latest update of the operating system to 10.2

There are enough Rumours around that the latest update will finally bring eagerly awaited applications like Vine and Instagram to the Platform and provide for a truly competitive ecosystem by providing the implementation of the latest Android runtime which essentially provides access to all Android apps.

Those great news and high hopes have been crushed by the alleged Job-cuts which turned out to be true on Friday.

However the mood has lifted within the community when many Apple users have been complaining about the latest iOS7 update, comparing it to the Playbook and serious security flaws have been discovered. This has caused many people to voice the consideration of switching to Android or Blackberry on social networks, making the release of the BlackBerry Messenger more important and highly anticipated by hundreds of thousands of Twitter users.

Just to be kicked in the stomach by the preliminary earnings report.

Many panicked and started to doubt the future of BlackBerry.

Enough articles have been released here in regards to it and I particularly enjoyed are those two, analysing the company and the figures.

 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1706632-after-shedding-20-is-blackberry-a-buy

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1706652-blackberry-5-things-to-know-about-its-earnings-warning

The launch of the Black Berry Messenger has been a success in disguise

The hype has been great and not many people envisioned that so many million people could simply not wait to finally be using BBM on their Android and iOS devices that the launch had to be aborted.

Instead of risking security issues and performance problems because of 1.1 Million Android users who have started to use a leaked version of the App and many fakes in the Play store.

The case still stands that when the last hiccups are out of the way, BBM will be a huge success.

The use of the BB10 UI within the app will be a great marketing tool for BlackBerry and with carrier contracts running out, many will might consider to try the whole BlackBerry experience.

It is more crucial right now to deliver a flawless experience and sticking to the core principles than rushing an unfinished product out of the door.

The death of this company has been proclaimed for 5 years and it still “keeps moving”.

After close to 15 years with one operating system, BlackBerry has finally created the foundation for their new future with the QNX based BB10.

Albeit the Playbook might be considered a failure, most of its core features have been taken up by Apple and Android, proving the leading position of BlackBerry in regards to Technology.

Success is a Continuous Journey

Happiness is finding a wok in your kitchen...

After what has seemed like ages, I have cooked properly again and am completely puzzled that I had no idea that my flat has a Wok!
Living there for a year and not knowing that a Wok is in the kitchen just shows how poorly I have treated my kitchen.
At least now I am back on track again. There shall not be a week where I do not try a new recipe and get a few friends over to have a nice meal.

Those are the little things which make a difference. Being more fulfilled and free of stress at work truly helps...

Just thinking about my friend who's de-facto homeless and trying to find a place.... How often have I been in almost the same position.... That is just ridiculous.....Breaking up the contact with my sis was the right choice in the end. When you're down, you need a helping hand instead of someone who just kicks you in the shin and smiles when you are on the ground.... closer to them..

At least I found myself (once again)

And it taught me to just offer help when needed and appreciated.....Otherwise you alienate good friends.

There will be some topics and areas which I will start to discuss quite soon..... Finally I have the right toy, attitude and time to spend hours writing here....

Your CV? It does not matter!

I have met many people and a lot of them told me that I am special and that there is so much more I could do...

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html

Switching jobs, taking on new challenges and meeting others in positions I have aspired, I came to understand that there is little that makes me stand out.

Most are funnier, better looking, smarter and have more experience.

But rarely have I met someone where I was able to say: You are wasting your time here. You could be so much more!

The last jobs I got has not been because of my previous experience or my skills.

It all came down to just one single notion: My aspirations and my willingness to succeed.
They see that I will be there to provide value. Not because of how much they are paying.

I am there to learn something new and understand another aspect of life better and do not believe that ANY job is menial.

What an employer wants to see is that you will enjoy doing whatever you are applying for.

Having been rejected often, I slowly understood what it means to be "overqualified" for a job.

It means that you will be bored and see all the limitations and rules which are keeping you from doing something remarkable.

It also means that they do not want you to grow and move on.

Instead of throwing out thousands of applications, I went to the recruiters and to the managers who are offering the jobs and tried to be remarkable.
My goal was to be worthy of a remark.

Most of the time I felt unfulfilled and dissatisfied with life. Having no education worth talking about and therefore no real career opportunities, makes you feel empty and yearning for recognition of your talents.

It didn't matter to me what I was doing as long as I was the best, got recognized and promoted until I have reached a dead end and tried something different. Something which pays more money or challenges me again.

It took many tries to find out what I truly love and how I can achieve it.

I love helping people, solving problems and be the one making things happen in the background.

Somehow stumbling into sales has allowed me to use those skills and to truly love what I am doing.

The catch 22 that employers are only looking for someone with experience and you don't have any is just used as a nice way of telling you that something didn't seem right.

They believed that you just didn't fit into the company and therefore used that lame excuse.

In Business, everyone is nice and friendly. They will never tell you that you that you don't seem trustworthy.
They will never tell you that your attitude towards the job is lackluster and that you just seem like a short affair until you find something better.

What they want is somebody who is eager to learn and to put 100% into the tasks assigned and will always find a way to put a personal note onto the job he is doing. Someone who is there to stay with the company and be trying his best to help them succeed.

If you cannot tell that to yourself, you are looking at the wrong job.

Most of my colleagues don't show any signs of that anymore. Most of them are older than me and are content with where they are. They deliver a fantastic job and are not looking to move on.
They love their friends and family and see work as a necessary evil.

Whoever I see being promoted has that spark in his eyes, radiating the passion and love for what they are doing. They are in the right place and company.
The love for what they are doing is being recognized and rewarded.

But first and foremost they are being tested.
First you have more responsibilities, stress and despair until you are close to throwing in the towel.

If you continue past this point is either because you are stupid or because you love what you do.

When you were just stupid, the next position is your glass ceiling. You are going to get content and lose the spark in your eyes. Because of the time you spent within the company it will be hard for you to justify moving on. Especially with he job market being so terrible right now, you should consider yourself lucky that you have a salary.

But is this the right thing to do?

You have worked hard to finally get a job, worked even harder to get promoted and now you stop?

Let's say that something happens and you will lose your job. How will you feel then?
How many years have you thrown away being stuck in the same job you don't even like?

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_success_is_a_continuous_journey.html

three years went by.......

Since I had a look at this place. A lot of static moment, however just little improvement. There are some odd stories to tell, however not too much...most did not change....

A special Day

It is the first of February today.

My brother will have his first day at his new job…. Department head…. He was just applying for a work experience in order to finish his Logistics course and now he is going to be the department head of a whole new department. If everything goes great for the first two weeks, he will be allowed to stay there and cash in nicely. Not too bad for somebody who's never had a job before, right?

For me it is going to be a special day as well. Richard and me will start living healthy and stop smoking from today on…. Jesus! I simply cannot imagine our lunch break without a cigarette or a cigar, straight after our Meal at the Golden Arches (Large Big Mac Meal with DIET Coke).

But what the Heck, Life's changing all the time and now it's just another 7 days or so until I get my own room.

My sister dared me that I will not be able to keep it clean for a month. And so we've made a high stake bet:

Whoever loses has to pay the other person's rent for a whole month. And either of us loses in the very moment when there is a mess in each other's rooms.

We will see who will win and who will lose.

All I know is this:

I've started this blog today and from today on I will give 100%. It's a great day for a great life ahead of me

Well used holidays

The last months since I've turned 20 have been very busy but successful. I was working seven days a week and therefore had no real time to reflect what I actually want to accomplish, for what I need all this money and got a little frustrated. But there were always friends who needed me financially. When you have money, people in need are always lining up. But I git wiser and gave it away quite wisely. One is my best friend and my sister's boyfriend, sleeping with her at the moment...

I am in the same room, listening to music and writing this blog. And I do not care about it.

The other one was a friend who can help my sister to kick-start her company. He was there for me whenever I needed him during the last two years.

The first one is trying to sort his life out. He is tries to find the right job for him. He needs money to pay his rent and so on... I believe in him and see it as a wise investment in the future. He is very good in marketing - and in bed as I can hear.

My other friend is the building manager of a corporate office building and is well connected. He is well connected and can get my sister several cleaning contracts.

The only worry he has till February are the hospital bills he's paying for his mother.

I pretty much had no choice than helping him. This investment is going to pay off manifold next year.

So yes....I have done some sound investments with my money.

But still. It was not the reason to work my arse off. I am not the person I used to be. I started to think about myself. And I am working for the Vision I have about the future.

We will be in the history books, everybody will remember the 21 century as a century of massive change.

Our world population will peak; we will run out of fossil fuels, we will have massive wars...

Our wonderful LALA-land will go down. We will see a new revival of the dark ages - just like we have seen it after Rome's fall.

The future is inevitable.

I've spent weeks researching the misery I will have to endeavour during my life.

My first reaction was to enjoy life to the fullest. I hoped to die young. It didn't happen. I just lost my opportunity for a decent education in Germany.

It was in 2007, when my personal recession came. Just along with the real one. The only logical option was to leave Germany and to start all over in England. The first year went wrong. I was too young and too many things were pear-shaped. But I've learned a lot. It took me almost another year to get out of my crisis and to become proactive. I know what he future holds and it is not a beautiful knowledge. Either you are self-sufficient or you suffer hardship. There will be no government that pays your rent, food or anything. There won't be friends to help you. They will have enough to deal with themselves. What we have seen in the last 18 months was just the trailer of what will come. We will have power, food and water shortages. We will have governments going bust and nobody who really has the time or the money to do anything about the underlying problems. We will be too busy fighting over resources to maintain our status quo. There is nobody to turn to. There is just you and yourself. You will have to become independent and self-sufficient. You will have to be able to feed and to power yourself. This is what I have realised during my holidays once again. Independence is the first step towards interdependence. And interdependence will be the most important tool for survival in the near future. And this is equivalent to money. The more you can do for others, the more they will do for you. I started this blog for myself. I have a lot going on in my mind and need to get a clear picture of everything involved. And the easiest way to do it is to try to share your thoughts with somebody else. You begin to see the different subjects, the depth of your understanding, the relevance and the logical consequences a lot clearer this way. And if I am able to inspire others along the way, I am more than happy. Small things always have the biggest impact. I just started to publish my thoughts, only to get rid of this paralyzing chaos on my head. It will make me more successful and hopefully a few others as well. I was looking for somebody I can share my thoughts with for a very long time, but always saw something missing. And now I realised that I need to do it myself. I tried it just for myself and realized that I need to do it publicly. Otherwise I lack the motivation to take apart even the smallest thoughts and thus fail to reach clarity. Only when it turns into something simple, you reached the core. I am young, smart and have endless opportunities. All I need now is to find simple answers regarding my future so that I can start taking simple steps towards my goals in life. I do not want to change the world. I only want to make it a comfortable place to live for myself.