$ Michael Jordan having "retired," with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not. $ If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head. $ If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there. $ If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it. $ He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage. $ He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends. $ If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours. $ If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of two dollars every second. $ He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round. $ Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), his contributions will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st. $ If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year. $ He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon. $ While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600. $ This year, he'll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined. Amazing isn't it? However, if Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 450 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has today. Game over. Nerd wins hands down. ------------------ "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak. Because someday you will have been all of these."
I read that one a couple of years ago in a bball magazine. I love it, seing that I'm a computer nerd and most of my friends a jocks. ------------------ http://titansmania.50megs.com is far better to ask a question and be a fool for 15 minutes, than to never ask a question and be a fool for the rest of your life." Confucious say: "Boy who meet girl in park, very lucky. But boy who park meat in girl, extremely lucky!"
I didn't realize that this was a couple of years old; it arrived in my inbox just today. I wonder how the numbers stack up after the assault of the JD on Microsoft's stock valuation? ------------------ "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak. Because someday you will have been all of these."
That's what's so hilarious about all the kids growing up wanting to be like entertainers. That's not where the money's at... the money is in corporate America as a CEO (as another thread on the BBS is touching upon). VP's, CEO's, and leaders of the IT/Computer/Media movement are the ones with bank. People like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, etc. earn more in one day when their stocks go up than the net worth of all the players on a basketball team. Case in point : Oracle's stock price went up $0.17 today. Larry Ellison is now more than $1 billion richer. Microsoft went up more than $2/share. Steve Ballmer as a result is $500 million richer. It boggles the mind... ... DoD representin' fo da geeks! ------------------ "I had mine chewed off by a boss one time." -- Behad leaves us wondering if he gets hazard pay...
I'd rather be a jock so everyone would be on my jock. It's all about name recognition. More people know who Jordan is than Gates. ------------------
I think I would prefer to make the kind of money that Bill Gates gets... but I think I could settle for Michael Jordan money if I had to. ------------------ Feeling claustrophobic, like the walls are closing in. Blood stains on my hands, and I don't know where I've been. I'm in trouble for the things I haven't got to yet. I'm chomping at the bit, and my palms are getting wet. Sweating Bullets Runnin', Ravin', Endin', Out.
$40 million or $40 billion, I'm sure Jordan's poontane quality is much higher than Gates'! ------------------ Anger is a weed. Hate is a tree.
I'm 18.. so I think I'll be a nerd and buy the Rockets so I can boss around jocks Seriously, be hillarious if Clutchcity.net and all their members put together a bid to buy the Rocketrs lol. We might have $1,000 combined ------------------ Shane "Save Our Rockets" "Life without basketball in Houston........without an arena that is what it will be"
I chose neither. I picked musician - jocks want to be us and nerds end up working for us making the gadgets we play. Ahh, the best of both worlds. (On a side note, I would like to think that there is a better measure of success than money. Sigh.) ------------------ Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau
In answering the original title I'd be a Nerd, definitely. Do you how much better life could be? For example, I decide out of my own stupidity to take a few engineering classes to broaden my horizons...oh ****!, that is some hard ****. All you computer nerds, I have the upmost respect for y'all. Man, if I could have half the brain of some of y'all, I could get so much more done in less time. I mean, if you want to be a jock, just work on it. Run, lift, hoop...just keep on doin it and you'll improve. You might never be a superstar, but with a lot of effort, you can get real good at something. Now as for nerd stuff, there are just some things that only nerds will be able to do: Medicine, Computer Science and everything in the engineering dept. I could be studying the same crap everyday and still not understand one damn thing, whereas if I work on my J everyday, it'll get better. My point is nerds have something special, and it'd be nice to have that. Just omit all that other baggage that pisses you off so much that you want to kick some nerd ass. ------------------ I'm having a ****ty day.
I'd rather be a jock. You get hot women when your 15. You get them when your 38. It never stops. You make a decent living. You feel healthy. The work hours aren't as demanding. It's a much better lifestyle than being a nerd in corporate america. Are you'all kidding me or what? ------------------ humble, but hungry.
Yeah, and you can live your old age out with arthritis, a fused spine, bad knees, internal scarring, and in rehab, etc. ------------------ "I had mine chewed off by a boss one time." -- Behad leaves us wondering if he gets hazard pay...
I'd rather be Tiger Woods. Just think, he's almost up there w/ Jordan and Tiger's got decades left on his career. ------------------
Why not merge the two and be a J-E-R-K !! ------------------ "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak. Because someday you will have been all of these."
