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What is the most you've ever earned in a week? Tell us a bit about how you earned it.
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onthehushhush 0:00, reply
GBP2000. Last year. Worked double shifts 7 days in a row. It wasn't worth it.
mount_st_nobody 14:07, reply
60,000 Danish Kroner - I was in Copenhagen in 2001 providing my consultancy services for nine months, it all went pear shaped in September as the yankee company closed ALL its European offices in the two weeks that followed the attack on New York.
whitemaninhammersmithpalais 13:42, reply
It's amazing how USD2,400 puts power to one's elbow when one is trying to excite a sack of dried fruit during the night.
dawnsyndrome 11:58, reply
Four penny chews and a curlywurly. I brought them the head of Alfredo Garcia.
plasticflamingo 11:53, reply
One hundred grand for one nights work driving in Paris, August 97. There were consequences however.....
roger_mycock 10:29, reply
A friend, in his first post-trainee year at Salomon Bros in the mid-80s, got a USD500K bonus (plus, presumably, 1/52nd of his base) one week. He had realized that the investment bankers with whom he worked were afraid of using the bank's new Lotus 123 software and, since they wouldn't let him speak at meetings or do anything more substantial than fetching coffee, he volunteered to stay behind every night and input numbers for their dealbooks. Half a million for, essentially, inventing the job of spreadsheet monkey. My number? Fuck you - that's between me and my headhunter, as God intended. And I earned it by persuading reasonable men to make unwise decisions.