The answer to the eternal question:
Is It Better To Be A Jock Or A Nerd?
Michael Jordan made over $300,000 a game. That equals $10,000 a minute, at an average of 30 minutes per game.
With $40 million in endorsements, he made $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 $9.50, 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’d make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
If he wanted to save up for a new Acura SLX (about $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 $2.00 every second.
He’d probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed around $30,000 during that round.
Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), he 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’d make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics.
He’d make about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.
While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he’d pull in about $5600.
In his last year, he made more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined.
However...
...If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 250 years, he’ll still have less than Bill Gates has today.
Game over. Nerd wins.
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Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school about 11
things they
did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how
feel-good,
politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of
reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000. a year right out of high school. You
won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents
had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine
about it.
Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parent(s) weren't as boring as they
are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and
listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save
the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try
delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS
NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you
as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This does NOT bear the
slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life!!!
Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and
very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on
your own time.
Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have
to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one; if
you are one, congratulations on your hard work!
If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier!
This site was last updated 04/17/07