How to make $65.00 an hour

[Jon Page]

At 07:45 PM 11/25/98 EST, you wrote:
<snip>
>it.  That amortizes to about $30/hr.  Not bad but certainly not gointg to
give
>Bill Gates a run.
>
>Happy Thanksgiving
>
>Dick Day
>
>

List,
This being a Holiday in this part of the globe I though this bit of humor
which
was forwarded by an old friend would help to put things into perspective .
. . 

HUMOR 163
>     
>     In answer to the eternal question "Is it better to be a jock or 
>     a geek?"
>     
>     I submit the following:
>     Michael Jordan will make over $300,000 a game: $10,000 a minute, 
>     assuming he averages about 30 minutes per game.
>     
>     Assuming $40 million in endorsements next year, he'll be making 
>     $178,100 a day (working or not)!
>     
>     Assuming he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while 
>     visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
>     
>     If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $8.00, but he'll make 
>     $18,550 while he's there.
>     
>     If he decides to have a 5 minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling 
>     it.
>     
>     He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage (after the wage hike.)
>     
>     If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take 
>     him a whole 12 hours.
>     
>     If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they 
>     would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
>     
>     Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into his tax 
>     deferred account (401k), he will hit the federal cap of $9500 for such 
>     accounts at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st.
>     
>     If you were given a tenth of a penny for every dollar he made, you'd 
>     be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.
>     
>     He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the 
>     Olympics.  He'll make about $15,600 while the Boston Marathon is being 
>     run.
>     
>     While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy 
>     Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600.
>     
>     Next year, he'll make more than twice as much as all of our past 
>     presidents for all of their terms combined.
>     Amazing isn't it?
>     
>     BUT:
>     JORDAN WILL HAVE TO SAVE 100% OF HIS INCOME FOR 270 YEARS TO HAVE  
>     NET WORTH EQUIVALENT TO THAT OF BILL GATES.
>     
>     
>     GEEKS RULE!  GEEKS RULE!  GEEKS RULE!
>     
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