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togocann49 t1_j26u6m0 wrote

If you work 50 weeks a year, 5 days/week, and 8 hours a day, you need to earn $50/hour an $400/day to make $100 000/year. Also under this line of thinking, every 25 cents earned per hour nets you $500/year and every dollar earns you $2000/year. I always found this a quick way to figure out yearly pay from hourly, and vice versa

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MiasmaFate OP t1_j26up1k wrote

I love it. You did the math.

I find it amazing how it all adds up but we tend to thing in years not hours or days.

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togocann49 t1_j26vq16 wrote

I figured this out when I was a tween. Another one is we find time goes faster as we age (for most), that’s because a year when you’ve lived ten years, a year is 10% of your life experience (in years). And when you’ve lived 20 years, a year seems faster because a year is now only 5% of your life experience, and so on, and so on. Math can be fun sometimes

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MiasmaFate OP t1_j26y4ze wrote

I’m feeling like we are kindred spirits because that’s how I’ve explained the years passing faster every year for a while now!

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togocann49 t1_j26ystg wrote

One of those old Greeks figured it out first, but I can never remember the name. That said, it’s still your/my theorem in a way, cause we figured it out independently

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MiasmaFate OP t1_j26zu4y wrote

It’s bittersweet figuring things out independently, figuring it out a bit to late to make money lol.

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togocann49 t1_j27522j wrote

Alexander Graham Bell and Antonio Meucci basically invented the telephone basically simultaneously, and there are other examples. Sometimes it’s all about filing the paperwork first

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ambermae513 t1_j26y7yf wrote

I generally only think of it in terms of hours and days when it is overtime pay.

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Logger351 t1_j26yday wrote

This is based on 2080 hours of work and 2 weeks vacation. Easier to get to your numbers that way.

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togocann49 t1_j270pyx wrote

I based it on 50 work weeks, and 2 weeks off.

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