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Re: Thanks and another book request

From: Rachel Carmichael <carmichr_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:30:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002A9C1B.20010202170530@fatcity.com>

well, let's do the math.....

let's say I get $5 for each book that is sold (I don't, and the royalties change depending on if the book has sold at full price or from a discount house) but the $5 makes the math easier (and it's less than minimum wage in the US!)

let's round the numbers, and say that an independent DBA consultant can earn $150/hr in New York, where I live. (That's an average, some make more, some less)

and 150/5 = 30 so I'd have to work 30 times as many hours writing books as I would as a consultant to make the same amount of money

Most personnel departments assume that there are 200 workdays in a year (vacation, weekends and holidays excluded), and that a workday is 8 hours long. Yes, I know no DBA works a 40 hour week, this is just an example.

so.... 200*8 = 1600 hours work in a year.

1600/500= 3.2 books a year and 1600*5=$8000 a year

1600*150=$240,000

don't know about you, I'd rather be a consultant!

I repeat -- you don't make money writing books, and if that is why you are writing them, you'd be better off just consulting. Even if you write in your "spare time", you lose -- I worked evenings, and all day all weekend writing. I didn't see my friends or family for the time I was writing.

Oh, and since my name does show up when my messages post, so it's easy to see how it is spelled....

it's Rachel, not Rachael

>From: "orclbabu" <orclbabu_at_hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: Re: Thanks and another book request
>Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:32:11 -0800
>
>Rachael
>
> > consultant for that number of hours.... Not profitable to write one.
>
>The very fact that you often repeat this in response to mails that refer to
>your books, makes us think otherwise $$$
>
>;-)
>
>babu
>
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