Hey, yesterday was my birthday (I won't say which one), but yesterday was also another significant day in my and Ēriks's life - exactly the 100th day since we no longer have a television at home in the classical sense. That is, there is a fairly large LED screen in our living room, but no television lives inside it. I'll admit it - one fantastic choice in the modern age.
We tried to lighten the grey and subdued mood of the rainy Easter holidays by going to Daugavpils and enjoying the large, colour-rich works of Mark Rothko, which art critics and the artist himself compared to the walls of a temple or portals to another parallel reality.
A meeting. The client, by the name of Ilārijs, scrutinises me with a pensive gaze. Then follows the crown phrase, which I was already expecting and had been playing a mental sweepstake with myself about - will it or won't it. "You know, this is a very specific vacancy for us." Yes! If only you knew how many times in my life I have had to hear that.
I sit and spend the whole day browsing through a CV database. Not the most creative of tasks, shall we say. Search, open, review, close. Search again, open, review, save, close. Search, open, review, send an email, close. Hey, have you fallen asleep yet? Still reading?
So be it - since all my free and not-so-free time is taken up by running my own company, I will write about my everyday life. Perhaps someone will find it interesting to read an insider's stories about the day-to-day of recruiting.
This holiday we visited Forum Cinemas for the first time in a long while, to sample the recently released detective comedy "Criminal Excellence Foundation." The film's funds were raised through a crowdfunding campaign and it features no professional actors. Despite all of this, the film turned out professional and enjoyable. The role performers are colourful characters, so I wanted to learn more about them. It turns out information in official sources is rather sparse - I had to gather evidence like a detective across the whole wide web.
Exactly three years ago, on 17 March 2015 at 6:45 am, the first informational meeting in Latvia took place at Mercure Riga Centre hotel, where Business Network International and its operating principles were presented.
Pantone codes are a familiar thing for anyone who works with graphic design programmes, draws layouts, illustrations, or processes images. Likewise, every self-respecting company - or at least its marketing specialist - knows the corporate Pantone codes by heart. Until now I had not been following these official Colors of the Year, but had been guided by the principle of "like-dislike", "goes together-doesn't go together", "readable-not readable". But it's never too late to learn something new, is it?
An age-old question - does each person, each relationship have a fate? Is a person free in their choice to change fate, or do they choose what they cannot help but choose, because it is deeply rooted in their nature?
Recently I have had occasion to communicate with the business managers of a couple of companies in Latvia who have developed and offer cryptocurrency exchange platforms to both private and corporate clients. The topic is currently at the top of everyone's agenda. Attitudes towards it are far from uniform - ranging from outright denial to fan-level enthusiasm. But most importantly, right now there are far more questions and uncertainties than understanding. I decided to compile a few simple explanations that may help you form your own stance on this relatively new means of payment.