[H]omer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> [sarcasm]
>> Don't you get satisfaction from getting a monthly piece of
>> paper with big numbers on it?
>> [/sarcasm]
Spoken by someone who has no money, so he pretends it doesn't matter.
> [sincere]
>
> Satisfaction is not the word I would have used to describe getting
> paid. In fact I can't say I felt anything about it at all. I did the
> work, the money went from their account to my account, and thereafter
> via direct debit to everything I pay for on a monthly basis. Other
> than walking around money, I didn't pay much attention to the numbers.
>
> I took the jobs I liked, and rejected the ones I didn't. Part of that
> was the consideration of the minimum payment I was prepared to accept
> in order to pay my way, but there were other considerations like who
> the client was and what solution they were looking for. Other than
> one or two companies that must surely have been joking with their
> pathetically small offers, mostly the question of money was the least
> of my considerations.
>
> Then, as now, if I did the job well then I was satisfied. Everything
> else was just bureaucratic paperwork.
>
> [/sincere]
Spoken by someone who has money, so he pretends it doesn't matter.
You're both fakes.
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