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Feb 1, 2023
12:42:12pm
volleyjiver All-American
Was talking last night with a guy who owns an auditing firm...
Has something like 30-40 employees/partners. They mostly all come from the big 4 and can make pretty good money and can pretty much work whenever they want -its all commission % based pay.

He told me a new guy started a couple months ago and will be making about $80k more per year than he was at EY.

The owner asked him how he was doing and how he was liking it. The guy said "it's ok, but I miss my 401k employer match." The owner asked what was the employer match? The guy said "about $5k/year."

It didn't compute in this guy's head that he was still going to be ahead by about $75k, even more if he took the excess and invested it when he receives it.

We were talking about how it's so interesting how some people are just wired differently to always be employees and take on little risk, while others can't even fathom working for someone else on a set salary and have to always be out looking for another way to make a buck.
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