Norman gets six-month suspension

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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

No, not at all. I have no problem with trainers taking a salary. Most trainers could not survive without taking a salary.

All I was saying was that many people that aren't in the indusrty and even a few in the industry, don't realize that trainers take a salary. People hear trainers say that they don't make anything on the day money, and some people take that to mean that the only money that trainers make is from purses. These people don't realize that the trainer gets a salary.

I think this is semantics. "Making money" is a very relative term, and just because a trainer is taking a salary doesn't mean the trainer is "making money" per se (on the/that salary). Making money, to some, is being able to take that money and "put it away" -- invest it, allow it to become a capital asset, etc. To others, "making money" might just mean using that money to "live" and pay some personal, neccessary living expenses. I am in the financial business -- the latter is not "making money" -- it really means "getting by" and/or "paying your bills" and that's all it might mean.

Eric