[WalterBright]

My dad was a professor in his later years. He once had a conversation with a secretary (back before computers replaced them) who complained:

"garbage men get paid more than me!"

My dad replied "why don't you quit and become a garbage collector?"

She angrily replied "but that's a filthy disgusting job!"

[tstrimple]

More apt advice would have been to unionize. Garbage collectors don't get paid better because the job is dirty.