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by Nobido
5634 days ago
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That's a sad way to approach a career. Really, most industries are an "underpaid ghetto" by those terms, especially for women.
Wouldn't any person be better off "psychically" to do a job they enjoy and are driven to pursue? I don't feel like the same person who is passionate about coding would neccesairily be so passionate about marketing. |
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They have protective associations that get them lots of pay for a smaller chunk of work.
All the professionals are well paid just for having a protected market: Doctors, Lawyers, Psychologists, Nurses, Actuaries, Accountants, etc. None of the work is particularly challenging - they are paid lots for their professional status and because they have associations that lobby and market the profession as a whole. They have standards bodies and certification boards and so on.
The reason for these things is to increase their pay. Pure and simple.
Then you have the blue collar workers who have banded together to fight for higher wages - this goes for both union and non-union. They are manly men who are unwilling to be shat upon and for that simple reason get paid more. They also get bonus money for doing jobs that are not prestigious.
Being a plumber is hardly challenging by MIT standards but a first year plumber rakes in cash hand over fist and has zero competition with India. Likewise for all construction related fields that are booming - especially in Canada. A first year construction apprentice working in the Canadian oil fields can make $100k in a year if they choose to. This requires no high school diploma.
Meanwhile the effeminate computer science dweebs get manhandled by MBAs into working unpaid overtime - reducing the pay of everyone in IT - not just themselves.