For $13 Million, I'd...
Katie Couric is making $13 million/year on a 3-year contract. Not bad for being able to read intelligently into a camera; can I get 1/13th of that for reading intelligently into a microphone?
One person on an early morning tv show was complaining about how hard it was to get up at 2:00am or 3:00am for the program. She was making somewhere in the vicinity of maybe $10m, perhaps less. Anyway, lots and lots of dough.
Hmmmmm... For $13m/year, I'd get up anytime they wanted me. I'd get a regular haircut for even less than that and not complain. I'd sell out in so many ways for that kind of money.
I just don't know what I'd spend it on. I don't watch tv all that much and my audio system, basic as it is, fills my needs. Maybe, instead of booking a cheap inside "share with a stranger" cabin on my yearly cruise, I'd get an outside suite for me alone. That still leaves a lot leftover, perhaps to be spread around to charitable groups in need that I know are low overhead.
That's not a pressing problem at the moment; the checks are not piling up on my desk, nor are they likely to. But, as Hamlet said, "To sleep, perchance to dream," and perchance I will dream of millions piled up in my bank accounts and investments. I will dream of wisely donating, and watching the sunset from my upper-deck verandah suite on Holland America Line's flagship.
In the midst of it, Shakespeare's MacDuff doth spake: "Awake! Awake! Ring the alarum bell! Shake off this downy sleep!" I come to, realizing that the millions aren't there, the outside suite isn't there. I'm booked for my usual steerage share, an inside cabin from which no sunset-watching will take place.
The places I'd go with 13 mil...
I'd circle the world, yeah, but still,
You can't take a checkbook out for a show,
And the "friends" you make will soon enough go.
As my grandmother used to say, "More wants more and blessed be nothing."
One person on an early morning tv show was complaining about how hard it was to get up at 2:00am or 3:00am for the program. She was making somewhere in the vicinity of maybe $10m, perhaps less. Anyway, lots and lots of dough.
Hmmmmm... For $13m/year, I'd get up anytime they wanted me. I'd get a regular haircut for even less than that and not complain. I'd sell out in so many ways for that kind of money.
I just don't know what I'd spend it on. I don't watch tv all that much and my audio system, basic as it is, fills my needs. Maybe, instead of booking a cheap inside "share with a stranger" cabin on my yearly cruise, I'd get an outside suite for me alone. That still leaves a lot leftover, perhaps to be spread around to charitable groups in need that I know are low overhead.
That's not a pressing problem at the moment; the checks are not piling up on my desk, nor are they likely to. But, as Hamlet said, "To sleep, perchance to dream," and perchance I will dream of millions piled up in my bank accounts and investments. I will dream of wisely donating, and watching the sunset from my upper-deck verandah suite on Holland America Line's flagship.
In the midst of it, Shakespeare's MacDuff doth spake: "Awake! Awake! Ring the alarum bell! Shake off this downy sleep!" I come to, realizing that the millions aren't there, the outside suite isn't there. I'm booked for my usual steerage share, an inside cabin from which no sunset-watching will take place.
The places I'd go with 13 mil...
I'd circle the world, yeah, but still,
You can't take a checkbook out for a show,
And the "friends" you make will soon enough go.
As my grandmother used to say, "More wants more and blessed be nothing."
posted by Tom Carten at 2:35 AM
2 Comments:
At my age $13 mil is wayyyy too much to want. I'd never live long enough to figure out what to do with it all. Instead, I'd live in terror that someone I love (including me!)would be in danger because of it.
Nah. Just give me a measily $5 mil and I'll be fine. I'll book the suite next to you and see the rest of the world.
For $13 mill, I would stay awake for a week.
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