PSA: Employment Opportunity

[rolanni]

For those of a clerical bent of mind, who live within commuting distance of Waterville, Maine. The pay's not great, but there is group health insurance. All info here

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Re: The pay's not great?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Sorry. Didn't finish.

Therefore! Using the Magic of Averaging, we find that the average hourly wage is! $8.59

Maine's minimum wage is $7.50.

So, you're a buck-eightyoh-nine to the good.

Re: The pay's not great?

[(Anonymous)]

Mmmm. Not exactly. $8.59 minus $7.50 is $1.09...ah, I see the correction just came in. That's why personally I do my checkbook in pencil and use all my fingers and toes. *g* It's also why I never envisioned myself on a career path leading to astronaut. I pilot vicariously, the most enjoyable way for me to go when I'm touring the Liaden Universe.

Anne in Virginia

Re: The pay's not great?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Publishers have been trading on the well-known fact that writers are innumerate since hot type turned cold.

Re: The pay's not great?

[(Anonymous)]

Publishers, as a general class, believe in higher math and creative accounting...for them. My old royalty statements from Dell and Bantam were real head scratchers, as in how did they get THAT for a total of royalties due and what 'n the hell are they using as a basis for their nasty little reserve against remainders and returns.

Anne in Virginia

Re: The pay's not great?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Royalty statements have actually gotten more transparent and informative. You needed a native guide and a philosopher to understand our old (1980's) Del Rey statements. The late 20th and early 21st century statements we've gotten from Meisha Merlin, Baen, and Ace have been logical and easy to parse.

Re: The pay's not great?

[(Anonymous)]

I am so glad to hear royalty statements are better now. In the 80s your recourse to the suspicion that you were being, in a word, cheated, was to hire a lawyer and demand a reconciliation to print. That was an expensive proposition indeed to prybar out of the publisher and usually the lawyer's fees for the exercise came out far ahead of any royalties regained. Only the mega-seller authors bothered or had the resources, just to try and keep the publisher at least minimally honest to contract, although their efforts did, I believe, help start the trend toward more transparent and informative contracts.

Anne in Virginia

Re: The pay's not great?

[mothadventures.livejournal.com]

That salary....makes purchasing a "transportable" carousel (like the one for sale here: http://www.fanelliamusements.com/equipment/chance%20merry%20go%20round.htm ) look like a more viable employment option.

At least when you sell carousel rides, you're making people happy for a while, instead of trying to meet impossible demands....

(I know, nowhere near as large or nice as Kate's carousel. But looks nice given the "load on a transport trailer" rule.)

Re: The pay's not great?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The very first thing Kit Jimenez (my second self in second life) did, upon achieving ownership of SL "land," was install a public carousel. In SL, you can live on air. In RL, not so much...