Personal Business Manager or Private Jet?

[Los Feliz Slim]

A friend of mine makes a lot of money and has a personal business manager. Basically, this means that somebody takes care of all his "personal" business: bills, insurance, taxes, etc. No bills ever come to his house, he really never thinks about them. He gets monthly reports showing his income, what bills were paid, investments, etc. He never lifts a finger.

I was telling him that he's basically living my dream and that's probably the best perk I can think of. He said "No, I'd rather have a private jet." Now, once you've already got SO much money that you have everything else you could possible want, a jet would be pretty [censored] sweet. But, right now this minute, I'd get a whole lot more utility from the business manager.

So, right now, if you could have the one of these dropped into your life as it now stands, what do you pick?

[guids]

The jet, since I found mycheckfree.com, my bills take less than 5 minutes to pay at the end of the month, emmigrant direct for savings, and d/l my bank statements straight into quickboks takes no time to run reports on. Id much much rather have a maid/cook than anything.

[El Diablo]

LFS,

"Hey, want to fly to Paris for the weekend in my jet?"

"Hey, want my guy to mail your PG&E and telephone bills for you?"

I'll take the jet.

[4_2_it]

If I can afford the operating costs, then the jet easily wins this. I'll just let the trophy wife handle the bill paying.

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If I can afford the operating costs, then the jet easily wins this. I'll just let the trophy wife handle the bill paying.

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girls don't know how to work numbers, silly! we just put it on our gold cards.

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If I can afford the operating costs, then the jet easily wins this. I'll just let the trophy wife handle the bill paying.

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girls don't know how to work numbers, silly! we just put it on our gold cards.

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That's how my current trophy wife has been handling things for the last 15 years. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[private joker]

Anybody that can afford a private jet can afford a personal business manager too. I can't imagine having the former without the latter, but I can imagine having the latter without the former.

[Los Feliz Slim]

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Anybody that can afford a private jet can afford a personal business manager too. I can't imagine having the former without the latter, but I can imagine having the latter without the former.

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The jet is WAY more expensive than the business manager. The business manager is 5% of income with a cap somewhere over what my friend makes.

Single guys should be going with the jet, I suppose, because as El D points out it will get you laid. But once you marry the woman the jet helps you meet and you have kids and responsibilities etc etc etc you're going to want the business manager, let me tell you.

What the [censored] am I going to do with a jet? If it has internet access I guess I can hide in it and play poker and hope my wife and child don't find me to go to another goddamn birthday party, but other than that it'd be useless.

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Anybody that can afford a private jet can afford a personal business manager too. I can't imagine having the former without the latter, but I can imagine having the latter without the former.

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The jet is WAY more expensive than the business manager. The business manager is 5% of income with a cap somewhere over what my friend makes.

Single guys should be going with the jet, I suppose, because as El D points out it will get you laid. But once you marry the woman the jet helps you meet and you have kids and responsibilities etc etc etc you're going to want the business manager, let me tell you.

What the [censored] am I going to do with a jet? If it has internet access I guess I can hide in it and play poker and hope my wife and child don't find me to go to another goddamn birthday party, but other than that it'd be useless.

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I think flying in mistresses would be a whole lot easier with a private jet, especially one with a bedroom.

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Anybody that can afford a private jet can afford a personal business manager too. I can't imagine having the former without the latter, but I can imagine having the latter without the former.

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The jet is WAY more expensive than the business manager. The business manager is 5% of income with a cap somewhere over what my friend makes.

Single guys should be going with the jet, I suppose, because as El D points out it will get you laid. But once you marry the woman the jet helps you meet and you have kids and responsibilities etc etc etc you're going to want the business manager, let me tell you.

What the [censored] am I going to do with a jet? If it has internet access I guess I can hide in it and play poker and hope my wife and child don't find me to go to another goddamn birthday party, but other than that it'd be useless.

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I've got 3 kids and the jet would be awesome. I could go to vegas for the evening, the trip would be shorter than many work commutes.

UCLA playing Stanford in basketball? Fly directly to Palo Alto.

Vacation? Have you tried dragging three kids through LAX? Then tried to seat them in coach for 3 hours? Private Jet FTW.

Got a weekend without a t-ball or soccer game? Fly the family to Mammoth to ski. You certainly don't want to drive for 6 hours with them.

Business Manager? If I had enough money to buy a jet, everything is on auto-bill pay and I don't worry if the cell phone company is overcharging me.