The more your job helps people, the less you're paid (and vice-versa)
Kaz wrote: As someone in technology who is married to a social worker, all I can is.. duh Read full topic
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Paul Lalonde wrote: Restate your title as "The more your job helps a person you interact with" and you'll be spot-on. Part of the reason that the caring professions get paid less is that more contact...
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wysinwyg wrote: Here in the US, public school teachers are given hours of busy work and administrative work to do outside of normal work hours. Any complaint is met with, "You should be willing to do...
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PeterK wrote: What about medical doctors? They help people, and are well compensated. Read full topic
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chgoliz wrote: A large percentage of doctors earn a lot less than you think. Doctors follow the same inverse path described above: elective plastic surgery is much more lucrative than anything to do...
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Alan Olsen wrote: The core value of Conservatism is cruelty. Everything else is derived from that value. Read full topic
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Kassie wrote: I feel like I figured out the happy medium. I'm a project manager (decent money) for the state Department of Human Services (helping people.) While those of us here in the technical...
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gilbert wham wrote: I have long opined that if work was fun, you'd be charged admission to get in. Not that it couldn't be made more fun, but then some fucker would expect you to pay to do it still....
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zikzak wrote: Doctors are at the top of a pyramid of other workers who do the vast majority of the work in keeping people healthy. Nurses, nurse assistants, technicians, janitors, clerical staff. For...
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The more your job helps people, the less you're paid (and vice-versa)
Phasma Felis wrote: alan_olsen said: The core value of Conservatism is cruelty. Everything else is derived from that value. That's a bit of an exaggeration. "Selfishness" might be a better candidate....
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mocon wrote: zikzak said: In some ways, doctors in a modern hospital can be seen as supervisors of care, rather than actual care providers. That may well be true in a modern hospital. On the front...
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Nic Fasano wrote: Sadly, it makes a lot of sense. Sociopaths and psychopaths are excellent tacticians, since they aren't weighed down by things like morality and empathy. In the immortal words of Lord...
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Phasma Felis wrote: Depends. My uncle is the only doctor of any kind within an hour's drive for a tiny Appalachian community. He does better than most of his patients, but by general American...
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Joe Rodgers wrote: Do people exist to serve the economy? Or does the economy exist to serve people? The market speaks so eloquently to the former, and there's no clear consensus about the latter. It...
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rocketpj wrote: There are plenty of people finding ways to opt out by hacking the economic system in some way or another. That's the root of all the much derided 'hipster' trades like artisanal...
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Mike Scott wrote: Your remuneration for working has lots of components, of which cash is only one. The personal satisfaction you can derive from your work is a big part of the total package. People...
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Supreme Leader wrote: alan_olsen said: The core value of Conservatism is cruelty. Everything else is derived from that value. PhasmaFelis said: That's a bit of an exaggeration. "Selfishness" might be...
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IronEdithKidd wrote: Whomever has hoodwinked you into believing that "personal satisfaction" is part of your compensation is an evil shmuck. Or did you forget your /sarcasm tag? Read full topic
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Ereiamjh wrote: Protecting privilege and hierarchy. Read full topic
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chgoliz wrote: drplokta said: The personal satisfaction you can derive from your work is a big part of the total package. People who help other people on a one-to-one basis are very well paid indeed...
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