Re: Thanks and another book request

Hi Rachel,

I definitively believe that the prime drive for writing a book must come from the love to teach, to help other people and share some of the experience and knowledge that you came to the hard way with others. And I agree that one should not think of writing a book to make money.

But for the math you did to be fair, I guess it should be mentioned that having a name on a good book also helps to reach $150 per hour. I would not say that this is an average that a
senior/experienced/expert/knowledgeable/... DBA gets even in NY ? If the name on the book can bring this number up by at least, say $10/hour, this changes your math by at least $1600*10 = $16,000. Am I right in this assumption?

Djordje

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> 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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