Comments on: In Praise of Jobs http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/04/03/in-praise-of-jobs/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Catherine http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/04/03/in-praise-of-jobs/#comment-990684 Catherine Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:44:49 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=12285#comment-990684 Hi Trent. Another good post – you clearly have an avid readership…. remind me of Frank Zappa’s audiences who listened ‘so very carefully’…. ; )

]]> By: Johanna http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/04/03/in-praise-of-jobs/#comment-989644 Johanna Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:09:01 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=12285#comment-989644 You handle technical issues?

]]> By: Evita http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/04/03/in-praise-of-jobs/#comment-989642 Evita Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:05:15 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=12285#comment-989642 ” If you can find ways to spend less money, you can find yourself doing a job that has less drudgery and more fun. ”
Tell me HOW ! this concept is incredibly hard for me to grasp !

]]> By: Tracy http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/04/03/in-praise-of-jobs/#comment-989629 Tracy Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:07:22 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=12285#comment-989629 Also, there are low pay, high drudgery jobs and high pay, low drudgery jobs as well. I think that the former is actually a very large category.

]]> By: Tracy http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/04/03/in-praise-of-jobs/#comment-989624 Tracy Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:48:11 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=12285#comment-989624 How can you simultaenously claim you only ‘get paid’ for hours that are ‘drudgery’ AND to figure out your ‘hourly rate’ you should include even non-work time, such as commuting hours?

]]> By: Russ http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/04/03/in-praise-of-jobs/#comment-989621 Russ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:36:35 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/?p=12285#comment-989621 “My definition of a job, then, is earning as much as you can for every hour of drudgery that you put in.”

Wait a minute, your definition of a job is earning for every hour of drudgery, but your definition of hourly wage in the past took into account all sorts of things like time spent commuting, money spent on clothes and lunch, etc. Calculating your hourly wage by these two contradictory metrics gives vastly different outcomes. Which is it?

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