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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-20-05 03:28 PM
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33. I have a couple of quotes from Webster Hubbell
"I billed more than $750,000 for the firm, which netted me $150,000.
But my expenses continued to outrun my earnings. And my stress level
was, if anything, higher than ever." "Friends in high places" Webb
Hubbell 1997 p 149

"Although my $124,000 salary at Justice wasn't as much as I'd made
at Rose, with Suzy's salary and money in the bank, we thought we'd
be okay for a while. op cit p 207

How comfortable you are, depends on what you want to buy. I probably made less than $150,000 for 15 years, but I thought I was doing okay. I was saving money, buying music CDs, and did not complain about stress. Even 70+ hour work weeks without any days off was tolerable since for half of that I was working for myself.

I scoff at the idea of money being necessary for happiness, but it made a world of difference to me when I went from $5.5 an hour to $7.15. Still there is a paradox, when I went from 22 hours a week to 40 hours a week at the same pay, my income almost doubled, but my happiness level did not. The extra 18 hours of work a week make me feel like I have almost no time for myself.
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