Sorry to mislead you, this story has nothing about parrots in it. However, the rest of it is accurate.
This guy wanted to hire me doing some contract work. He was going to get a cut and give me a cut. It was some repetitive, crappy job scanning documents of school kids and storing the images on a server; like school grades and such. He said he could pay me about $17 an hour, and it would be a full-time position for as long as the job lasted, which was supposed to take quite awhile.
I did some calculations and 17 an hour is about 34,000 a year. But since I’d be considered self-employed, the tax on the money is higher; it’s 30 percent. The taxes would be over 10,000. Then this job was going to be an hour and a half drive each way every day because we are getting ready to move this week. I’d have to pay tolls, and with the price of gas, I figured it would cost me about 3,750 a year to travel, and that didn’t count wear and tear on the car. That brought my income down to about 20,000 a year.
Then I told him that before I went to school, I was making about 20,000 a year, but that was before taxes. After taxes, I made more, because I could claim my daughter and get more money back than I paid in. That meant 12 years ago, I was actually making over 20,000 a year, and my job was 1 mile down the road, so it took almost no time to get there. I told him I figure his job would require me to spend 15 to 20 hours on the road each week, so a 40-hour work week now turns into a 55- or 60-hour work week.
So I say to the guy: you want me to take a job where I'll make less money than I did 12 years ago, and spend 55 to 60 hours a week for that money instead of 40. Then I say: So, my question is to you, would “you” take the job? He just laughs and says, welllll. Then he says he’ll see if he can get me more money. Lol, he needs to get me a lot more money. The thing is, it’s not even a good job to add to my resume. I wouldn’t want to tell somebody that I did document scanning; something he could train his dog to do.
This guy wanted to hire me doing some contract work. He was going to get a cut and give me a cut. It was some repetitive, crappy job scanning documents of school kids and storing the images on a server; like school grades and such. He said he could pay me about $17 an hour, and it would be a full-time position for as long as the job lasted, which was supposed to take quite awhile.
I did some calculations and 17 an hour is about 34,000 a year. But since I’d be considered self-employed, the tax on the money is higher; it’s 30 percent. The taxes would be over 10,000. Then this job was going to be an hour and a half drive each way every day because we are getting ready to move this week. I’d have to pay tolls, and with the price of gas, I figured it would cost me about 3,750 a year to travel, and that didn’t count wear and tear on the car. That brought my income down to about 20,000 a year.
Then I told him that before I went to school, I was making about 20,000 a year, but that was before taxes. After taxes, I made more, because I could claim my daughter and get more money back than I paid in. That meant 12 years ago, I was actually making over 20,000 a year, and my job was 1 mile down the road, so it took almost no time to get there. I told him I figure his job would require me to spend 15 to 20 hours on the road each week, so a 40-hour work week now turns into a 55- or 60-hour work week.
So I say to the guy: you want me to take a job where I'll make less money than I did 12 years ago, and spend 55 to 60 hours a week for that money instead of 40. Then I say: So, my question is to you, would “you” take the job? He just laughs and says, welllll. Then he says he’ll see if he can get me more money. Lol, he needs to get me a lot more money. The thing is, it’s not even a good job to add to my resume. I wouldn’t want to tell somebody that I did document scanning; something he could train his dog to do.
