To all the whiners, this is sm
Posted By: Food for thought on 2008-10-24
In Reply to: I don't know what everybody has to complain about. sm - Tracey
I have been in this donkey's years now. Here is the truth of falling money...how soon ye have forgotten!
In the beginning of computers, I worked in WP5.1 for DOS. I was paid by the BYTE line! I made 6.5 and later 7 cents per BYTE line. Guess what? You'd get 1500 *characters* for opening up a document, um like every time you opened one up. You didn't work for that, it just happened. Long document, you really didn't make out as well versus a character count. Short document, you really made out like a bandit. So, if you put one pt in one file in WP5.1, you made BIG BUCKS and you didn't type all of that, it was from merely OPENING UP THE DOCUMENT AND CLOSING IT.
Lots of us were paid by the byte. With the loss of Wp5.1 and the use of platforms and/or Word, we all went to strict character/keystroke count. YES we took a hit!!!! YES it was hard. YES it seems like stuff has gone down the toilet.
I can tell you, when I worked in DOS 10 years ago, I got 7 cents per BYTE line. I was working 5-6 hours a day, doing clinic, bored to tears. I would get about $1200 every 2 weeks. I was not that fast, nor was I anywhere near as accurate or good as I am today. Today, I am fantastic...both for speed and accuracy. Even I can't believe how much I know and use on a daily basis. I am a phenomenon and I know it.
Today, I work probably 8 or 9 hours actually at the keyboard. I am ultra fast (300 and better lph) in a Word client platform. I get a whopping 9.3 cents a line on average. I am making $3500 TO $4000 a month. That is AT LEAST $1100 more than I made when I was working a BYTE LINE.
Now...if I were being paid by the byte still, I'd make half again the amount of money I make now, even if I was still getting 7 cents. Why? Cuz like so many of you, I didn't work actually typing for all of that.
Lets be more honest about it, shall we?
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Whiners take it to a blog
I am not advocating to just quit, move or walk away. If you have read my posts, I have offered suggestions that don't require brash action, just common sense and ambition. Public boards should be for differing view points on different subjects. They should not be about pity parties. It would be much easier for the whiners to have their own blog, where maybe between them they could come up with one good idea as to how to improve their situation. Leave the public boards for the general public, not a few whiners who only rehash the same thoughts.
Nice - that put these whiners in their place
*applause*
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