You just said you got $25000 for 10 days work which included airfaires. Let’s say you made two trips to Queensland at a cost of $1000 each that means your fees were around $2300 per day, which sounds about right for a consultant like yourself.

That being the case, why did you say earlier your charged only $500 per day, a figure that is ludicrously and incredibly low?

I don’t see why you should be embarassed about being able to charge $2K per day for your services, if you can find someone who is willing to pay it. That is less than a junior to mid person at one of the big accounting firms. Top QCs make 5 times as much. Tim Flannery gets $50K for giving a talk on climatre change. Bill Clinton gets hundreds of thousands per talk, as did Margaret Thatcher before bad health stopped her.

Of course, if you got the Queensland work through political connections rather than a transparent tender that might be considered problematic, but for the Queensland government, not you.

Your little stoush is looking increasingly pointless. I’m closing this thread for now.

while I make no pretense of having studied this matter, ( of KC’s billing) there seems a certain amount of “weasel wordiness” at play :

KC

The budget was about $50,000 and I received about $25,000 for airfares and related costs.

KC again

the fact is that I only billed about $25,000 for the work I did.

Now, I may be obtuse, but

$25,000 for airfares….

plus

I only billed about $25,000 for the work

looks awfully like $50,000 dollars IN TOTAL to me ?

You originally argued that I made $50,000 related to one week’s work reviewing the Queensland Education Department – the fact is that I only billed about $25,000 for the work I did. While some argue that Western science is simply a socio-cultural construct, there are some truths – one of which is that $25,000 does not equal $50,000. Can you add and subtract?

$50,000 for a week’s work – I’d like to see that! Back then, I never charged anything more than about $500 a day. Let’s say $500 by 5 days = $2,500.

Your airfares and ‘related expenses’ are interesting to say the least. But I suppose that ‘truth’ is all relative. It seems to me that you are a post-modernist when it’s convenient. Sort of ‘dumbing down’ I suppose.

Just thought I would make the ‘truth’ part of the historical record.

For what it is worth. The job for the education department involved two companies, my own, and another called the Collins Hill Group. The budget was about $50,000 and I received about $25,000 for airfares and related costs. I worked for about 10 days on the project and never, never received more than $25,000. Put in an FOI if you don’t believe me. The ‘great’ thing about blogs is that comments like yours go on record without any proof or evidence (irony).

j-p-z
Double cream and a light dusting of heroin?

meantime, though, far graver sins have lately issued from me own sloppy pen…

“Dorothy Parker… Strunk and White…” followed in a later remark by “Wunk and Strite…”

Can you imagine?! I gave myself the rarely-seen opportunity to make the pun Poorothy Darker, and I missed it on the first pass. There are writers who can actually be sued for failure of due diligence over such a misstep.

Oh well. I plead the goodness of the french toast. (I have an evil secret in my recipe, but I’m afraid if I revealed it, anthony would come up with something a million times better in 12 seconds and make me look like an utter doofus.)

meanwhile, silly and gratuitous excerpt from what’s sitting on the desk here beside the computer, that I found while flipping around, waiting for this page to load…

PAINE’S REPUTATION: The world cracks open. Wake up!
PAINE: Oh, Christ, let me be. I want to sleep.
ALL: He wants a mistress.
REPUTATION: The Revolution is your mistress.

– Paul Foster, “Tom Paine, a Play in Two Parts”

Huh. Hunter’s luck…

I’m an MLA Handbook girl myself. Old habits die hard.

And whoops, got the Chicago manual all dyslexically confused. F U NC DR HTS, U YM B SDXLC. Oh well. Wunk and Strite do indeed have much to answer for.

– j_p_z, giving Edward the Confessor a run for his money…