how would explain the 8 year gap on your resume?

"i quit my last job to sort my money"

5/4/2010 6:20:32 PM

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[Edited on May 4, 2010 at 6:21 PM. Reason : slow site pwnt me]

5/4/2010 6:20:34 PM

how many $1 bills are actually in circulation?

5/4/2010 6:22:38 PM

^^^ Why would you work for someone else if you had a million dollars?

5/4/2010 6:23:12 PM

a million dollars isn't that much anymore, though. i certainly wouldn't quit my job unless i was very good at playing he stock market.

5/4/2010 6:24:17 PM

I mean, with $1 million dollars you can just buy a piece of land in a third world country or some podunk community in BFE, United States and live like a king for the rest of your life.

5/4/2010 6:24:27 PM

^^^ because you probably racked up a lot of debt putting food on the table while you were unemployed counting money

5/4/2010 6:25:45 PM

Gotcha. Still, I would just go into business for myself at that point.

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"how many $1 bills are actually in circulation?"

During fiscal year 2007, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) produced approximately 38 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $750 million.
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/production.shtml

5/4/2010 6:27:05 PM

its not really that much money if you look at it...you'd have to quit your job and still be paying expenses for 8 years (using the proposed time table) while you sort the money. So, lets assume you make $80,000 a year and forget taxes. Over the 8 years you werent working at all, you made $0 and passed up $640,000 and free time. So, by the time you get paid the $1000000, you have actually only earned $360,000 more than you would have if you had lived your normal life. That is an increase in salary of $45,000 per year, but at the cost of doing NOTHING with your life besides count dollar bills for 8 years.

Still seem worth it?

5/4/2010 6:28:07 PM

This 8 year thing is bullshit

5000 bills a day

100 days max

5/4/2010 6:29:28 PM

In that scenario, it's more rational to pass up the opportunity. Does everyone on T-Dub make $80,000 per year?

^ That would be 200 days, slick.

5/4/2010 6:30:04 PM

Regardless, you can only make so much off of an invested $1 million. You're best bet would be to invest the money wisely and continue working.

5/4/2010 6:30:09 PM

I guess I just live a lot cheaper than most people.

5/4/2010 6:31:12 PM

Nevertheless

not 8 years, not even 1 year

5/4/2010 6:31:27 PM

lol. That gives you 17 seconds to pick up a bill, read a 10 digit letter and number serial code, move to the area you have it sorted (which would be massive) and scan to find the bills on either side of it in your filing system and place it there. 17 seconds per bill also assumes you are doing this 24 hours a day with no sleep or time for leaving the room at all.

5/4/2010 6:31:47 PM

oh just go in business for yourself eh?

do you know how many people get 1 mill in loans or investments for their ideas and fail miserably?

5/4/2010 6:32:52 PM

I believe in Slave Famous. He knows something.

^ Yes, but you don't just throw $1 million at one investment. You have to diversify, brah.

5/4/2010 6:33:38 PM

If you sort all of the bills but then one is out of place, do you get to simply correct it or do you have to start over?

5/4/2010 6:34:02 PM

Slave Famous knows you're an idiot

5/4/2010 6:34:09 PM

So, if there's an error in the sequencing, do you lose all the money or have to troubleshoot the error?

5/4/2010 6:34:31 PM

nah u just bend over

5/4/2010 6:34:50 PM

i say you lose it all. its correct or nothing!

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5/4/2010 6:35:04 PM

well shit

so much for picking up mexicans at lowes to do it

5/4/2010 6:36:52 PM

I once saw a night auditor sort about 2000 receipts in random order by room in just over an hour. It was intense how well she knew her system.

5/4/2010 6:40:46 PM

your forgetting how much physical space bills would take up.. a bill is 2.61x6.14

thats 1335450 sq feet of floor space.. LOL! that doesnt even give room for the stack of unsorted bills or walkways.

5/4/2010 6:58:37 PM

Meh, I'd separate the bills into one thousand stacks based on the first three numbers of the serial code, then sort within each stack.

5/4/2010 7:22:54 PM

Separate into 26 stacks based on the first letter, separate each of those into 10 stacks based on the first number, separate each of those into 10 stacks based on the second number, etc.

You would have to look at and place each bill into a new pile about 10 times, but you are only looking at 1 number (letter in the first case) for each time.

If it takes you 2 seconds to look at the current sorting digit/letter and place it into the appropriate pile; and you sort for 16 hours per day it would take approximately 348 days. Grab one friend and earn $500k in about 6 months.

5/4/2010 7:52:18 PM

Sorting money by hand for 16 hours a day?

NOT WORTH IT

5/4/2010 7:58:22 PM

One million dollars,
I sorted it all by hand.
Staph infection, son.

5/4/2010 8:12:42 PM

If you had a good system for organization in place, I can't see how it would possibly take 3 minutes per bill.

5/5/2010 7:52:01 AM

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"take 25 % of that and promise it to the workers I hire to sort it for me."

by far the best solution, marxism at its finest

5/5/2010 12:03:54 PM

Arrange 1,000 bins, ten high and 100 long, with appx 6"x6" openings, that is 5' high and about 50' long, so arrange it in a circle and it will have about a 16' diameter, which wouldn't be too bad for moving around. My calculus is rusty but I think that is about 11' average you have to walk between bills, or about 5 seconds of walking. Probably need to add in about 2 more seconds of mentally processes the number and figure out which bin to drop it in. So about 7 seconds per bill, bump to 7.5 seconds because every few hundred bills you need to grab more. That is about 130 days working 16 hours per day, which for such a monotonous task would be tough to exceed long term.

Then you need to arrange the 1000 stacks of 1000 bills. Sort each stack in 10 stacks of 100, then each stack of 100 into stacks of 10 and sort...touching bills 3,000 times per stack to sort, but should go quick, maybe 1 second per bill. Definitely get a stack of 1,000 done in an hour, probably less. So assuming a little faster than 1 second per bill, another 50 days sorting the piles.

That is 6 months for one person working 16 hours per day, and this system is nicely dividable between multiple people.

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5/5/2010 12:11:12 PM

wouldn't you have to take into account time for eating, sleeping?

security of your money when you aren't there?

5/5/2010 1:07:44 PM

i'd accept

then go digging through my shit and find my data structures book

relearn some sort algorithms

pocket it straight cash homie

i mean, i'd keep my job, but just keep it on the side

i'd become quite a hobby really

"hey ps, wanna go play madden?"
"nah man, i'mma sort 1,000 bills."

turns into an opportunity cost exercise.

5/5/2010 1:30:52 PM

Quote :

"your forgetting how much physical space bills would take up.. a bill is 2.61x6.14 thats 1335450 sq feet of floor space.. LOL! that doesnt even give room for the stack of unsorted bills or walkways."

each bill takes up more than a square foot?

5/5/2010 3:17:37 PM