{"id":27,"date":"2008-07-26T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2008-08-30T19:49:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T18:49:34","slug":"so-whats-so-wrong-with-a-bit-of-nepotism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"so what&#8217;s so wrong with a bit of nepotism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so what&#8217;s so wrong with a bit of nepotism?<\/p>\n<p>my mate, a lawyer in your neck of the woods, has just had his daughter doing work \/ work experience  alongside him in the office, he must be chuffed to bits&#8230;..apart from the bills &#8211; she&#8217;s become  a real lush since she went to uni.( dave thought that i might have seen her along with the wonderful drunk Scots folks who helped us with our tent at Knockengorrach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/knock3jcollins1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63\" title=\"knock3jcollins1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/knock3jcollins1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/knock3jcollins1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/knock3jcollins1.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theskinny.co.uk\/gallery\/19-knockengorroch-world-ceilidh-2008\">link to jethro collins xcellent photos<\/a>) early this summer)&#8230;very wonderful event by the way&#8230;.another <a href=\"http:\/\/s280.photobucket.com\/albums\/kk199\/knockers508\/?albumview=slideshow\">slideshow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>anyhow i told him how our lad had won the egg and spoon ( my mates, and even i, a long time ago, being sporty types)&#8230; i even admitted to a little coaching pre-week&#8230;  Dave knew how we felt as his own daughter &#8211; the now lush-like lovely, and our lads- were born very premature, and were to all intents and purposes , hospital-held for a year at birth, my lad a twin was 1.7 , while Rose was over 2lbs!!.  now my lad is doing very well &#8211; he&#8217;s 6 &#8212; but he&#8217;s small, and has peripheral sight problems, and is generally behind when it comes to kicking footballs, and catching things.  His mum procured a trampoline &#8211; kindly donated from a family who had had many a season of joy in its presence. Along with the elderly climbing frame now supported with pole and twine) from a previous brood  &#8211; he has done well and is getting stronger and more co-ordinated. but he still has slight legs like his lovely counterpart Rose had, who, Dave told me,  had impressed him mightily at her school &#8211; many moons ago, when she had manfully- woman-fully  finished a running race &#8211; albeit a way behind the mob &#8211; but she had finished.  anyhow back to the nepotism bit&#8211; how often in the 10-20 years have i heard it slighted &#8211; he\/she is related to so and so, and that&#8217;s how they got there&#8230;.  yes and so what&#8230;.  you don&#8217;t have to advertise, vet and nowadays .summon up reports and police checks. it isn&#8217;t as if it&#8217;s always the easier option either , involving loved ones&#8230;. but especially for initial fixed contracts perhaps , can be advantageous to all  they often already know a bit about you and your work &#8211; and the &#8220;feel&#8221; you have for it. they will then more than like as not, amplify that . &#8211; they already in effect have a platform to raise to &#8230; unless of course your own standards are slovenly and disheveled&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>now the relevance to the soultrader\/ the soletrader is often they, the small concern \/ soletrader, can be slow to employ and delegate, citing reasons of cost and expertise; but the value of eclectic nepotism, would be in the fact that often a reduced wage, or  flexible work hours, can be achieved to suit both parties, and that an understanding of future shared benefits &#8211; if things turned out,  can be assimilated much quicker.  i even caught myself thinking of the poor MP&#8217;s for a minute there&#8230;  but of course they went and spoilt it all  by overpaying them and saying they were, who they weren&#8217;t  u help who you can, but you practice with who you love, and who they love, and those loved by all around you&#8230;  i know Adam and Graham will help with the wheelchair swing we are designing for the other twin, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/ArchboldStoves\/otherprojects.html\">trolley<\/a> and ramps.<\/p>\n<p>we have been assisted in our understanding of the area of co-operative living by the many great people (&gt;20 directly employed here in varying degrees and another &gt; 20 at the wondreful school he attends) who assist Matthew  &#8211; he is PMLD disabled &#8211; very broken, but with a ready smile.  His mother (a v busy lady) actually employs people on a self-employed basis , using the direct payments system. Others are paid by the local authority &#8211; health, social and education depts. Using  the Soultrader software she can keep abreast of her finances in individual accounts dealing with house rental, 2 osteopathic practices, the direct payments scheme employing up to 10 people on flexi hour self employed statu;.the drop down menu subsets allow for one complete database for all patients personnel suppliers etc and allow easy Finds &#8211; when she needs to see where she is and realise the individual account summary totals. (see screenshot)  now i wonder if Graham&#8217;s son Ewan can help me with the lawn  &#8230;. for the minimum wage mind&#8230;  more see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/?page_id=29\">being cruel to be kind &#8211; family businesses&#8221;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/s280.photobucket.com\/albums\/kk199\/knockers508\/?albumview=slideshow\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so what&#8217;s so wrong with a bit of nepotism? my mate, a lawyer in your neck of the woods, has just had his daughter doing work \/ work experience alongside him in the office, he must be chuffed to bits&#8230;..apart from the bills &#8211; she&#8217;s become a real lush since she went to uni.( dave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PhL1C-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/37"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soul-trade.com\/wierdpress\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}