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Would you rather double your salary, or subtract as many minutes of your 5K or marathon time to get halfway to the WR?

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    pfo

    Member since 08/12/2009.

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 7:53pm EST

    "Would you rather double your salary, or subtract as many minutes of your 5K or marathon time to get halfway to the WR?"

    (credit Querfeldein) from the sub 17/six figure salary thread (http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4904593&page=1)

    For me, I'd strongly consider taking the time. I'm in grad school right now, so if all goes well I'll more than double my salary once I graduate regardless. However as a current low 15s 5k guy with one 14:59 to my name, I'm sure that I'll never see the bright side of 14:00 or 2:20 unless I were quit science, put everything into running, and get extremely lucky. Dropping halfway to the WR would probably be much more life-changing to me than doubling my grad school stipend.

    However, if it was a lifetime salary 2x multiplier, that would probably be a no-brainer. It'd be nice to guarantee that I could crack into the "not a f***ing billionaire" income bracket.

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    yetanotherchick

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 8:36pm EST
    re: pfo

    Double my salary. I'd be just about rich - easily so far into the upper middle class that I wouldn't have to worry about anything financial ever again. I'm in no danger of losing the job I have, and having a high salary in one job means having a higher salary in future jobs.

    On the other hand, I'm so slow that getting halfway to the WR in my 5K PR doesn't make me elite.

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    Anonymous Poster

    13 years ago 11/15/2012 9:15pm EST
    re: pfo

    I make $31,500 a year and have run 15:40. I'd take 14:08 over $63k and wouldn't have to think twice about it.

    (I'd actually take 14:08 over $240k pretty easily. Getting over a quarter-million is when I'd have to start really thinking.)

  • Mike Huckabee

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 9:21pm EST
    re: pfo

    If you doubled my current teacher's salary ($78k), you'd probably double the number of people complaining about me not doing my job. I'll take the minutes, even though $156k would buy me a lot of Vibrams.

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    Dennis Reynolds

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 9:31pm EST
    re: pfo

    I'd be a 2:07 guy with the marathon time thing, that'd be sweet. I'd make about the same as I would doubling my salary since I'm an American and could get insane appearance fees at Boston, Chicago or NYC.

  • Bullet the Blue Sky

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 9:55pm EST
    re: pfo

    That would give me about 14:47 and 2:28. No thanks. I'll take the salary bump.

  • Herpes

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 10:01pm EST
    re: pfo

    2x salary.

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    Oh Please

    Member since 03/13/2010.

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 10:08pm EST
    re: Herpes

    Salary x2.

    As someone with an unimpressive PR, getting halfway to WR would still leave me with a 5k PR that wouldn't be all that impressive even in high school.

    With the salary, I can go from 6 figure to even bigger 6 figures.

  • I'll take the PR

    Anonymous Poster

    13 years ago 11/15/2012 10:13pm EST
    re: pfo

    I am unemployed right now, so doubling my salary wouldn't get me very far (zero times two is still zero). So I guess I'd take the PR.

  • Paul Ryan

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 10:19pm EST
    re: pfo

    Tough choice, but I'll have to go with 2:30 something.

  • Chad .

    Anonymous Poster

    13 years ago 11/15/2012 10:53pm EST
    re: Paul Ryan

    So I could run 13:58... Would be fun, but give me an extra 50-60k a year

  • Kenenisa Bekele

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 11:15pm EST
    re: pfo

    1 divided by 1 is still one. I'll take salary bump any day.

  • cenotaph

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    13 years ago 11/15/2012 11:21pm EST
    re: Dennis Reynolds

    Dennis Reynolds wrote:

    I'd be a 2:07 guy with the marathon time thing, that'd be sweet. I'd make about the same as I would doubling my salary since I'm an American and could get insane appearance fees at Boston, Chicago or NYC.

    so you run/ran a 2:11 or 2:12? not bad

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    pfo

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    13 years ago 11/16/2012 8:07pm EST
    re: cenotaph

    bump

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