Author: brettbickham@hotmail.com

Differences in Texas Schools from 60’s to Present

I started school in Texas in 1965.  I loved going to school and loved all of my teachers.  They were highly respected in my eyes.  It was not uncommon for teachers to work for a school for their entire career.  Some of my teachers were young and just starting and others were old and nearing retirement.  The young teachers seemed proud to be teachers and the older ones just did not want to quit.   Now teachers suffer from burnout early into their careers.  Students either excel or not.  Back then, students were made to repeat a year as consequences for not doing the work.  Now teachers are punished when students refuse to do the work.  Continue reading “Education in Texas”

Attached is a fantastic Power Point Presentation on the Basics of the Cattle Business in Texas.

Cattle Class 101

 

 

Thru higher education I have learned that the business world is about managing sacred resources.  For most of my life I have struggled with wants verses needs.  Things you want may not be the same as things you need.

It comes down to those who have the most money are the ones who get the sacred resources.  Society does not delegate sacred resources by need.  The poor people wait in long cheap lines and the wealthy people do not wait in lines, but pay considerably more.

Continue reading “Land is Very Much a Sacred Resource”

The strangest piece of knowledge I learned at Tarleton State University, while obtaining my Bachelors of Business Administration degree in Accounting, blew me away.  I have worked in cost control for Roche and BASF and thought I had a pretty good understanding of how accounting worked.  Before that I was and estimator for several private companies, the largest of which did 300 million dollars of business a year.

Continue reading “Depreciation and the IRS”

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