Re: Thanks and another book request

Rachel,

Having witnessed my mother rise to the top of the Professional Genealogist field, being published countless times along the way, and never having any spending money growing up, I can say that she was not in it for the money, and nor are the majority of the non-fiction writers.

Some things are more rewarding than money.

dgm

• Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 8:05 PM

> 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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