Compound as in you get a raise, and frequently the raise is a COLA raise of N% of your previous year.
So if you stay out of work 5 years, you don't lose salary + 5*N; you lose (salary * 1.N) raised to the fifth power.
Does anybody mind if I pass out?
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 1:46:49 pm PST #6569 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Atropa - Feb 11, 2005 1:47:33 pm PST #6570 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Girl Scouts managed to miss me this year.
We have ones in our neighborhood this year. I answered the door last weekend to a pair of teeny-tiny baby Girl Scouts, who did indeed quote Addams Family at me. After I marked down how many boxes I wanted, they scampered down our front stairs calling out "Mom! Mom! We sold cookies to the witchy lady! She's nice!"
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 1:48:20 pm PST #6571 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Awwww.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2005 1:49:36 pm PST #6572 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
A lot of musicians do it.
A lot of musicians' kids are fucked up, too, though.
That came out needlessly harshly. But you know.
Though the flexibility is definitely an easier-making thing.
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 1:50:26 pm PST #6573 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I wonder how Deadhead kids turn out? There must be some of them who grew up migratory.
Circus kids have it different, because the circus is a self-sustaining community that moves together from place to place.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2005 1:50:29 pm PST #6574 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee, Jilli! Yay for teeny little brave Scouts who now have a revised impression of witchy ladies.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2005 1:51:43 pm PST #6575 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, ours wouldn't be as bad as touring musicians, because we at least have the stability of going to the same locations again and again.
We'd have to homeschool, but I suppose we might have anyway.
P.M. Marc - Feb 11, 2005 1:52:13 pm PST #6576 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
For values of "normal" that include no job I've ever had.
Me neither.
Mind you, I will be going back to work, because we can't pay the bills on one income, but with daycare (and daycare for an infant around here is 800 a month or more) and related baby costs, it's going to be tight.
(And as we're already a two-income family, it's not going to bump our tax bracket up to more than it is, and Paul's solo bracket wouldn't be a huge difference.)
DXMachina - Feb 11, 2005 1:54:45 pm PST #6577 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We have ones in our neighborhood this year. I answered the door last weekend to a pair of teeny-tiny baby Girl Scouts, who did indeed quote Addams Family at me. After I marked down how many boxes I wanted, they scampered down our front stairs calling out "Mom! Mom! We sold cookies to the witchy lady! She's nice!"
They should film that and show it every Christmas Halloween.
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 1:57:12 pm PST #6578 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Mind you, I will be going back to work, because we can't pay the bills on one income, but with daycare (and daycare for an infant around here is 800 a month or more) and related baby costs, it's going to be tight.
Absolutely. Working with a new baby is expensive. I just get frustrated when people say that therefore it's a slam-dunk to stay home. Staying home with a new baby is also expensive.