In article , "SteveB" wrote:

"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.

Maybe you'd better dig out that calculator that you supposedly know how to
use, then, cause you sure can't do math in your head. $300 a day doesn't equal
$50 an hour.

I saved about a
thousand on this job by my calculations.

As long as you did as good a job as the pro would have done, yes.

But I wonder...

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.