An oops for better results!

Apparently, I wasn't taking into consideration
(1) the provincial "basic personal amount"
(2) the EI
(3) That the BPAs are going up in 2006 (I was calculating using the 2005 BPAs)

Having done that, unless I did my algebra wrong, my minimal survival salary ranges come out much more reasonably. I could squeak by on somewhere between:
$16,300 - $22,771

So, switching to only contract would be tight, but even if I got no other writing gigs I would be fine in the range of price I was planning on proposing.

Much thanks to freefloat for pointing this out!

EDIT As much as I might APPEAR to enjoy speculation, I've had enough. I keep on trying to poke my head into the CEO's office to chat about a doctor's appointment this month and to ask him if he's still open to seeing a contract proposal, but he's always on the phone. So I sent him a brief email, reminding him of our conversation and asking if he'd still be open to the idea. We'll see what he says.

Proposal writin' time!

Weee!

So, CEO just came into my office and said that he's somewhat uncomfortable with signing a contract right before he leaves, but he's willing to talk about it, because if we could negotiate something that he was confident was a good deal for the association AND for me, then he'd probably go for it.

I guess it's contract writing time! I've just emailed our contract translator to ask her about her situation. We'll see if she can give me any insight.

CEO will be away until March 17, so that gives me more than two weeks to get the proposal and contract written up.

As mentioned before...

Weee!