Don't get hung up on the numbers. . .
because I'm just using them to drive several points:
a) these SP's earn a lot of money in very short time (like winning a lottery) and
b) without the proper money management skills and discipline, would adjust their lifestyles (i.e. spending habits) to match the suddent increased income (instead of saving most of it), which in turn
c) would make it very tough to move on to a regular lifestyle if and when they choose to leave the business - thus making them (i.e. forcing them to be) dependent on the SP business way past their prime. Very few(?) SP's have the education, skills, time nor the energy to become surgeons or lawyers or CEO's of million/billion dollar corporations to continue earning the type of "salaries" that these professions earn. However, the wise ones who have saved their money can use it to invest and/or further their education for a better future outside the industry.
The numbers I've quoted are for illustration purposes only and therefore not very important to the discussion as I was only using them to illustrate my point. Now if you want to argue about their incomes as a function of time (i.e. time that they have been in the business) - I can show you that, too...the numbers I have shown you is just a "snapshot" of what a busy SP can earn when she starts out in the business. It eventually decreases over time as several factors come into play.
I hope this ends the discussion for this thread because that's about as clear as I could get.
The wise SP's all know what I'm talking about. . .I don't think I'm going to get an argument from them.
because I'm just using them to drive several points:
a) these SP's earn a lot of money in very short time (like winning a lottery) and
b) without the proper money management skills and discipline, would adjust their lifestyles (i.e. spending habits) to match the suddent increased income (instead of saving most of it), which in turn
c) would make it very tough to move on to a regular lifestyle if and when they choose to leave the business - thus making them (i.e. forcing them to be) dependent on the SP business way past their prime. Very few(?) SP's have the education, skills, time nor the energy to become surgeons or lawyers or CEO's of million/billion dollar corporations to continue earning the type of "salaries" that these professions earn. However, the wise ones who have saved their money can use it to invest and/or further their education for a better future outside the industry.
The numbers I've quoted are for illustration purposes only and therefore not very important to the discussion as I was only using them to illustrate my point. Now if you want to argue about their incomes as a function of time (i.e. time that they have been in the business) - I can show you that, too...the numbers I have shown you is just a "snapshot" of what a busy SP can earn when she starts out in the business. It eventually decreases over time as several factors come into play.
I hope this ends the discussion for this thread because that's about as clear as I could get.
The wise SP's all know what I'm talking about. . .I don't think I'm going to get an argument from them.