outsource

This article arises because today gives the outcome of the presidential election in Taiwan. Discussing the gap from the election to outsourcing is beyond the scope, but I have the logic in mind, leading me to practice outsource. I have acquired the idea a while, but today is the day I make up my mind to practice it. 許文龍 said, "if you are busy enough, it is time to outsource." To me, this is a reasonable/intuitive thinking. After all, everyone has only 24 hours a day. We have to corporate. We have to work together. So we can do something big. "Make a dent in the universe!" Steve Jobs has been always saying.
My scratchy approach, yet my first move, is to outsource my research work to Barbara. The pay of doing research in universities ranges from 8 to 20 dollars an hour. In small/startup company, the pay is 20~30 dollars an hour. In industry, it could be as high as 40~50 dollars an hour. The numbers I gave are fair, because my friends and I have been in all those positions. I pay Barbara 50 dollars for a case, each of which I leverage is about a two-hour work. The work itself is whole about image co-registration. For a while, I was surprised that image co-registration exposes a need in research, which means you indeed are able to find a job by mastering the skill. Secondly, I feel sad about the 22k problem in Taiwan. Taiwaners in a word are workholic. I feel sad because they are not treated fairly and not aware to fight. For the same/less amount of work, people in US earn more and have a quality life. Thirdly, I pay 50 dollars per case because I think it is a fair deal and a double-win move. It makes me feel that I am able to release responsibility, to trust people, and to manage the process. I also hope that Barbara can appreciate its value as much as learn the skill. I am telling you that doing image co-registration is worth 25 dollars an hour, and YOU can take the job. YOU are valuable!
Why per case? Because if you can finish the work in 30 minutes, you are worth 100 dollars per working hour. This has been my style: I don't work long. I work smart.
Barbara once told me housewives are often under-appreciated. They work hard, but their contribution does not reflect on gross national product (GNP). Today's move also lets me evolve another interesting idea: Barbara and I should outsource work to each other. We put a value on tasks, so we will appreciate how we have treated each other anonymously. This indeed is 1+1>2.
Being a person who employs somebody makes me feel I start my own career. Who wants to screw up his/her own career? To me, it is very unlikely that when Barbara works for me, I myself turn to play the video game. During this two hours, we both are productive. To sum, this 50 dollar transaction produces a 4 hour productive work. I feel satisfied.