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Djordje,
the $5 was for each book sold. not per hour.
My rate (before the book) was more than the average. The $150/hour is really an average, I know people getting more than that.... and they haven't written a book, or done lots of presentations etc. NY is a higher paying market.
And in any case, even at $10/hour, it's still NOT worth spending the time writing instead of consulting.
And the real question is, since I write in my limited, minimal spare time, what is the value per hour of THAT time? Time not spent with family and friends, or doing the things that feed my soul?
Rachel
>From: "djordjej" <djordjej_at_home.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: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 23:45:21 -0800
>
>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
>
>----- 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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