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Originally Posted by Sly
Nobody said rich or wealthy. ;-)
The term was "achievement". Any one man or small business netting $250k yearly is definitely an achievement to be proud of. We aren't talking about big corporate environments that have dozens of 6 figure boys. We're talking about small businesses built from the ground up within under 10 years.
No, $250k is definitely not rich or wealthy. Its living well. I don't even think I would consider $1M yearly "rich". I've heard people say rich is up to $50M, wealthy is above that... I have no idea what the universal standard would be.
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OK - not rich then
A few decades ago I took a break from "adult" - needed to write some software which was needed for adult businesses we ran. (These were the days when there was little software around - even less vertical market stuff). I took about 2 years out and coded shit - In that time, after about six months, I was selling stuff and earning more than $250K - simply because of all the small elements that folks needed - from support to tailoring. Can't say this was much of an achievement - partly because "programmers" at that time were earning reasonable money if they were any good. (Think some were on.. US $1200/day - but always thought that was kinda embarassing - it was a lot of money at that time
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The only reason I stopped this was because adult earns more and we were already in the adult biz. Also when you try to be helpful to clients - you become a crutch and spend hours each day on the phone being asked opinions on this and that - nothing to do with the software they bought, - more to do with their biz decisions. Also lost some hearing hanging onto a phone listening to em - this was not for me
Tho pleased to still help em out and resulted in a few good friends.