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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7715023" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Pretty much. </p><p></p><p>As things stand, there is a niche perhaps to be had in high income areas (Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York) catering to the 1% - the same sort of people who with different tastes might buy private airplanes, yachts, or spend $2000 or a weekend seeing a professional football game. Those sorts of people might be unable to find a DM amongst their social class willing to invest all that time in running a game, and so might see it as highly reasonable to drop $500 or more dollars every week or every other week to get a gaming fix. </p><p></p><p>But there is probably only room at present for a handful of persons filling that niche.</p><p></p><p>You might have cases where an English major decides that he's better off as a professional GM than the is working fast food, and so willing to put in this time to generate a supplemental income. But that's not a career, any more than fast food is a career, and even then I think people will be absolutely shocked by what he charges just to make say $17,000 on the side. He's going to be somewhat helped out by the fact that at that income, the taxes aren't killing you (and in fact, you get 'welfare' reverse taxation at that income), but the self-employment taxes that are normally 'invisibly' born by the employer are still nasty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7715023, member: 4937"] Pretty much. As things stand, there is a niche perhaps to be had in high income areas (Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York) catering to the 1% - the same sort of people who with different tastes might buy private airplanes, yachts, or spend $2000 or a weekend seeing a professional football game. Those sorts of people might be unable to find a DM amongst their social class willing to invest all that time in running a game, and so might see it as highly reasonable to drop $500 or more dollars every week or every other week to get a gaming fix. But there is probably only room at present for a handful of persons filling that niche. You might have cases where an English major decides that he's better off as a professional GM than the is working fast food, and so willing to put in this time to generate a supplemental income. But that's not a career, any more than fast food is a career, and even then I think people will be absolutely shocked by what he charges just to make say $17,000 on the side. He's going to be somewhat helped out by the fact that at that income, the taxes aren't killing you (and in fact, you get 'welfare' reverse taxation at that income), but the self-employment taxes that are normally 'invisibly' born by the employer are still nasty. [/QUOTE]
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