11 Mar
2000
11 Mar
'00
5:53 a.m.
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
Probably the classic illustration of that statement is the rates paid to
entertainers - and I take a fairly generic definition here - including
such as baseball, football, and basketball players in addition to the
more usual categories.
- don
walked into a
$60k per year job with a cutting-edge tech company. He works
8 hours a day, maybe 2 hours extra at home to straighten out paperwork.
Maybe. In addition to his base salary, he receives stock options that just
about double his yearly salary. He is 27 and owns a house in Huntington
keep my big mouth shut. But listening to someone
bash a group of people
who are generally dedicated to their profession, and who put up with poor
materials and low salaries, makes me sick.
The world is NOT fair, pay rates are not fair or based much on merit. Generally my experience is that getting a high salary
is not an engineering
skill. Might be a talent you are either born with or not, I sure don't
know. I know very good engineers that happily work for peanuts, and
decidedly mediocre engineers who haul down money like lawyers.
My last comment, in this thread anyway, on teachers is just wait til your
kids have a few years of school, then tell us what a swell underpaid bunch
they are.