MBAs and Small Specialty Nurseries -addendum
Ellen Hornig (Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:23:26 PDT)
In my last message, I think I stated my income rather confusingly (so
someone might have thought: wow! She made that much! In that case, I'm
going to start a nursery now!) What I meant was that after I quit academics
and devoted myself full-time to the nursery, I made under 10K in my first
year, and the net crept upward over the next 12 years to around 72K last
year.
Like Robin, I happen to own and live on the land where the nurery is, water
is cheap here, and (don't know Robin's situation here) my husband's job
gives us health insurance. If I had to pay for the land and the insurance,
I'd be netting a whole lot less.
Ellen
Ellen Hornig
Seneca Hill Perennials
3712 County Route 57
Oswego NY 13126 USA
http://www.senecahillperennials.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen Hornig" <hornig@earthlink.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] MBAs and Small Specialty Nurseries
In the last couple of years, I've cleared around $70K - probably better
than I would have done if I'd stuck with teaching economics in a small
state college. However, I built up to that with years where I made in the
low, then the middle, tens of thousands, so overall I'm quite sure my
career as a nuyrseryperson has been less remunerative than continuing my
career as a professor of economics would have been.