"dpb" wrote in message ...
Doug Miller wrote:
In article , "SteveB"
wrote:
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... I consider over $300 a day for very simple work to be unreasonable.
I guess he considers working for less than $300 a day to be
unreasonable, so he sits at home and makes zero.

$300 / 8 hours = $37.50/hour. ...

Or, if he does work 2000 hrs/year on average, that's only 75K gross --
certainly not an extravagant standard of living. Wonder what the OP takes
home and if that's too much (or maybe his work isn't "very simple")...

I'm retired. Life is structured. Living trusts, family trusts, LLCs. If I
need or want something, I just go put it on a credit card. The accountant
takes care of it. I'm conservative on spending, so the principal keeps
working. I avoid things that are wastes of money. As long as I don't get
stupid, the principal keeps snowballing.

Stupid like paying people $50 an hour to do monkey work. I saved about a
thousand on this job by my calculations. I saved $1400 on the drywall by
running off the stupid Mexicans someone had doing the work at an inflated
price and hiring an experienced rocker who is a retired friend of mine.
Paid him his asking price, and it was $1400 less than a contractor. All
together, saved a good bit on the project. Enough to do some substantial
upgrades, buy a new Nikon, and probably spend two weeks at Pueblo Bonito in
Mazatlan.

When I do choose to work at what I do, I earn between $50 and $200 an hour.
Notice I said earn and not charge? (I paid myself the $50 an hour the grunt
wanted to hang wallboard.) If it's real grunt work, I hire real grunts.

Steve