Business-Side

If I was a betting man I would bet you work for a small company (99employees or less).  Odds are I would be right half the time.  How did I come up with those numbers?  Using some math and stats I found on the Internet.

About 24% of the working population are public employees (i.e. employed by government).  The remaining 76% are employed by private companies with just a hair under 70% working for a company of less then 100 employees.

Starting a new business is hard.  In 2010 study just over half of new business in Canada survive 5 years or more and only 30% survive 10 years.  Similar statics for our neighbours in the south.

Saturday Morning Productions has been around for 7 1/2 years, if my maths are correct.  Our odds of surviving this long are about 45%.  Another way to look at it is if 100 business opened in 2009 then only 45 are still around today.

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The leaves are starting to change, the days are getting shorter, and the garden is ready to harvest.  That means fall is here in all it’s glory.  It also means my summer sabbatical is over.

I spent my sabbatical teaching myself mobile phone development and working on Arduino projects with my daughter.  While I enjoyed my sabbatical I’m looking forward to working again.  It feels good to serve others and be rewarded with multi-coloured certificates of appreciation with The Queen or Prime Ministers faces on them on them (i.e  money).

After almost a year hard work Liv has reached her goal and been accepted to the Edmonton Police Service (EPS).  Needless to say she was a bit excited when she got the call.

Unfortunately joining the EPS means Liv no longer has time to work with Saturday MP.  At least in the immediate future.  That means there will be a drought of cartoons and a decrees in qualty qulity quaity quality of the blog and social media posts.  We are as sad as you are but also happy Liv was able to accomplish her goal.