Posted on 03/14/2006 8:01:09 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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Top cash kings include Ka-shing
C of C -- I sure don't think all lawyers are rich, if by rich we mean income in the top one or two percentile. It's just that a median figure of mid-70s does not sound proportionately where it should be, given the cost of attaining the degrees. And sure, in any profession, you start out on the low end. Of course, averages can be deceiving, and those 75K go a lot further in Mississippi than they do in Massachusetts. Don't get me wrong, I am very much in favor of people making big bucks
Just make sure there are no "nipples" showing. ;-)
(Poor Hunble, probably has no idea what the hell we're talking about!)
"""Yes...and double billing is defined as billing 2 clients for the same portion of the workday. You can't, ethically, spend the same hour working, i.e., billing for client A as well as client B."""
I am sure they do it more than you think.
Look at auto mechanics:
They have a book that tells how many hours it takes to do the job and that is how they charge.
If the book says it takes 3.5 hours to change a water pump that is what they will charge you, even if they do it in 1.5 hours. the other 2 hours they are working on another persons problem and they will charge that person what the book says it should take for that job. Big rip off and my nephew is a mechanic and sees nothing wrong with that practice, he says that part of the business.
They could have like 20 hours billable and only worked for 8-10 of those.
Hehe. I'm sure he has a good sense of humor and knows were just yanking his chain.
Out of the snow, the owner of our company saw me walking across an open field to get to the office. Eventually, he and I were able to locate where the road was and used the snow plow to clear the way for mine and other vehicles.
Is this your boss?
I work a whole lot and I had an industrious father and paternal grandfather.
And I am just like them so I can utilize the advantages they provided for me and i hope I can keep that going for my children too.
I am very lucky and have the utmost respect for self made from scratch folks.
I am not one.
This has been the best year financially and spiritually in my life.
I never knew they made so little.
Once again - fraud.
"I am sure they do it more than you think"
Um, no they don't.
Sorry - no matter how important YOU may think your case is, I am not going to risk my license to practice law to get another couple thou from you by double billing.
Maybe mechanics are willing to do so, given that they have no license to protect.
Here you go Johnny. Don't let facts get in your way now. Ya hear.
Startling facts from the recent Federal Reserve Board's Survey of
Consumer Finances indicate that the typical American family has about $3,800 in the bank,
no retirement account, no mutual funds and no stocks or bonds.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2006/financesurvey.pdf
Osteopathic physicians are different in that they have to have their 'own' hospitals because they are not allowed in 'real' hospitals. My parents learned that the hard way.
Sept. 2003 - $42,000 yearly salary
*lost job October 2003 (company went bankrupt)
Sept. 2004 - $53,000 *new job started Dec. 2003
Sept. 2005 - $61,000
Sept. 2006 - $75,000
Industrial sales/food related
There are Osteopathic physicians working in our local hospital here and I know several who work as ER docs in regular hospitals in other locations that I knew as docs in the Army (NG docs on 90 day rotations). They all told me that they were once not allowed to work in hospitals (which is why they are more likely to emphasize primary care even today) but none of them ever said that they weren't allowed in "real" hospitals to this day-that really surprises me.
My experience with them was 25 years ago in a small town in Texas. Both of my parents suffered terribly from their care or lack of knowledge. There were obviously restrictions on them at that time.
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