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On 14 Jan 2006 22:43:54 GMT, (Mike Paulson) wrote:

I give much the same spiel, but you know those people are always doing the
numbers in their head to figure your hourly wage so I always add a bit
about how I would make pretty good money if I could keep it all, but the
gallery takes half, there are show fees, equipment expense, paying my own
insurance, self-employment taxes, etc, until what's left to pay for my
time isn't a lot.

Another favorite answer is that it is like asking an accomplished pianist
how long it took him to learn a Scott Joplin tune. The answer might be
"few hours and 15 years of practice," and that's how it is for me, too.

-mike paulson, fort collins, co

Yeah.. I can relate to that....
I was kidding my chiropractor about getting "$45 a crack" one time and he told
me "You're not paying me for the time I work on you, you're paying me for the 8
years of college and the expense of running an office"..

Since my best month selling bowls so far was about $600, I figure that about a
year and a half of months like that would pay for my tools...
Now, if wood was free and I didn't charge for labor, I could do this for a
living!
Of course, that would require the tools to last forever without expensive
maintenance or replacement.. *g*

mac

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