[skyhigh007]

Hi

Is there any job for just generating ideas ?

[jimmiejo]

No.

[deleon]

Actually there are, they're a strange breed of people known as consultants. You pay them$100/hour and they give you ideas like "you need to increase your profit".

[mpnetwork]

lol, consultants - http://www.mckinsey.com/

think tanks - http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/

really, if you can come up with successful ideas on a reliable basis, you will be successful and will be compensated for them as a manager, entreprepreneur, politician, etc.

generating ideas is a big part of being an entrepreneur, if not one of the most important

[Outta Hand]

Originally posted by deleon
Actually there are, they're a strange breed of people known as consultants. You pay them$100/hour and they give you ideas like "you need to increase your profit".

Hahaha.... consultants are becoming as bad as lawyers... there are just so many of them.

[Eric Locken]

Consultants = people who failed at doing the job, so they then try to tell others how to do it.

What a walk in the park

[sskinner]

Consulting rocks. I was hired at Kmart as a stock boy two years ago. A week later, a consultant was hired to shut down the store (Kmart's big fiasco). He ended up taking me under his wing and making me his PA instead of a stock boy. I got my paycheck trippled by him and did ALL of his work except phone calls and copying flyers. Being a consultant is the life (he writes off EVERYTHING as a business expense).

[Onyx]

Errr, that's not really what a consultant is. Credit to him for doing that and identifying you as someone he wanted to use, but I don't see where he provided a consultancy service.

I hope you learned a lot from what he did - that's the main goal out of your experience.

[sskinner]

His consultation had to do with telling them (management) the best way to move all inventory out of the store ASAP and he pretty much took command of the store.

[GSchubert751]

There are consulants in every type of industry and they gey PAIDD sometimes outrageous amounts of money for not doin jack. But there are some smart consulants out there.

^My 2 Cents