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Hollyweird is one of the homes of creative bookkeeping. The Whitehouse being the biggest followed by Wall street.
That type of business was brutal before there even WERE computers. Animators, for example, were expected to work 50 hours a week for their 40-hour salary. That was an “industry standard”. If you didn’t like it, leave.
Fixed price contracts are a way of the client to say, “We want to control our costs and have you take on all the risks.”
I NEVER take on fixed price contracts unless I have a massive profit margin built in (typically 500% or more) and the requirements are fixed and not subjective.
There was a man with the carnival whose job it was to clean up the smelly bucketloads of prolific elephant dung.
A passerby, who saw him hip-deep in the excrement, asked, “My good man, how can you put up with such demeaning conditions? Haven’t you ever thought about another line of work?”
To which the carnival worker replied, “What—and give up show business?”