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sweet fancy moses!

• nailer 17y ago
  Thing is, I wonder where I spent the money.
  • christofd 17y ago
    ah, steak and strippers :)
    • sokoloff 17y ago
      and he probably wasted the rest... :)
• tptacek 17y ago
  550/day is not crazy high at all.
  • christofd 17y ago
    That's in british pounds, not USD. Addition: did the math at www.oanda.com (currency conversion). GBP is LESS than what I thought: 1.63842 USD. So, that's 900 bucks a day, resulting in $ 110-120 USD/ hour.
    • tptacek 17y ago
      Yes, I know. It would be quite low in USD.
      • lzell 17y ago
        "We're hiring a Rails/jQ developer. NYC or Chicago" Someone should take you up on $120 per hour being low!
        • tptacek 17y ago
          We're not looking for contractors.
  • patio11 17y ago
    When I heard it was in pounds I'll admit to a brief flash of envy. (Though $550 a day would still be, erm, rather substantially more than Japanese salarymen my age get.)
    • tptacek 17y ago
      $68/hour is less than my mechanic charges. It's not a bad living, but for a feast-or-famine consultant supporting a family as a sole breadwinner, assuming 70% utilization, it's a gross 95k salary, from which you subtract self-employment tax.