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Re:23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees hav... by thaumasiotes on Sunday May 12, 2024 @10:29AM (#40334760)
> hopefully this takes off (there are writers in her genre making hundreds of thousands, including a couple writers she's friends with, maybe she'll become one herself, although I'd be happy if she can get it to the point where it's like $60k/year)

That might be more difficult than becoming a runaway success. I don't think the distribution of author earnings peaks in the middle.

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Re:23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees hav... by cableshaft on Sunday May 12, 2024 @12:48PM (#40335795)
I can see that. A lot of things tend to be bimodal in their distribution. Let's hope she becomes a runaway success then :).

And if not, it's not like she lost her ability to do proposal management. If it gets to that point, I'm sure she could find a well-paying job again if need be.

She's got a lot more practice with those interviews than I do, in fact, since she would interview when recruiters contacted her with a potentially better-paying job even if she wasn't really looking at the moment, whereas I tend to ignore recruiters when I'm not actively looking (or at least debating if I should start looking).

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