retina said:

All of the above. And I would elaborate the first option with the additional line, "shit, I'm such a fucking loser, ain't I?".

ZombieKitten said:

You don't think $1.80 for every single post is pretty darned steep too? Rich aussies...

When jerseykrs made his thread about having posted 20.000 times, I gave him this as a response:

retina said:

Now if we want to take it a bit further, I think it's fair to assume that we spend at least four times as long reading on the org than we do writing, which would then add around four and half months of full-time "work" on the org.

Okay, so 4.5 months of reading plus 1.5 months of writing = 6 months.
Say that your monthly salary is $3000 (I don't think that's unrasonable considering most people's age and experience). 6 x $3000 = $18.000

That's what your employer is paying you, which in actual reality usually means that you're costing them around twice as much (because of employer's fees, insurance, consumption of electricity, rent etc etc etc), so that takes us up to a whopping $36.000.

$36.000 / 20.000 posts = one dollar and eighty cents!

That's how much each post is costing your employer if you do all your orging from work, as many of us do. But I guess you could flip it around and say that you're actually earning around 90 cents per post since you're getting paid for your time. That's not too shabby for posting a or a , wouldn't you say?

Then again, you could flip it around again and realize that:
20.000 posts means 6 months full-time spent on the org
10.000 posts means 3 months full-time spent on the org
5.000 posts (even I have reached that) means 1.5 months full-time spent on the org




PS: The numbers are obviously just very rough estimates, so don't get your knickers in a twist.

PS2: I don't even know where I'm going with this thread, I guess it's just a reality check.

PS3: I'm unemployed so I'm not actually costing or getting payed anything, I'm just wasting precious time.

PS4: Okay, this PS was incredibly unnecessary.

You have way too much time on your hands without me now that I work fulltime, Peterloo baby.

is ben finally cutting checks for us? i am almost up to 30,000

It's even more that that

SHANNA said:

What's your salary then?

retina said:

Uh...lol...my publishing and royalties are more than that...!

Retina.

~smile~

SHANNA said:

Publishing and royalties coming from what? Books you've written? Modelling?

cborgman said:

Is that the org record? It must be more than althom's score even?

retina said:

Songwriting. BMI.

retina said:

Songwriting. BMI.

SHANNA said:

I made 12.56€ from my last record.
[Edited 1/19/07 9:04am]

novabrkr said:

How much is that in US dollars??

SHANNA said:

Can you post one of your songs? I'm sure if everybody chips in, we can pay the royalties for that.

SHANNA said:

Pretty much the same.

But congratulation on making real money from music. A lot of people would be jealous.

this post reminds of a Barbra Streisand quote when she did a benefit concert in her backyard and charged $5000:

"i was wondering what I could possibly do that would be worth five thousand dollars. then i realized that I'd be singing 3,227 notes. and you know, some notes are longer and worth about $3.00, some are shorter, fifty cents, but you know, it averages out.."

retina said:

Orgers have bought my music, retina.

But, no, I won't say...it's one of the reasons I can use my real name on the Org, I never use it for work. And, vice versa.

Barbara Streisand?

retina said:

Barbra Streisand's twin-sister?

We're not Barbara Streisands though, are we? I think one of her notes should be worth at least a liiiittle bit more than one of Cloudbuster's pooptoasts.

Barbra Streisand's twin-sister?

retina said:

Barbra Streisand's twin-sister?

CortestheKiller said:

Can you org at work at all?