In my experience as an engineer, I've found that we're nearly as bad as teachers when it comes to whining--and for the same reasons. Both groups think that it's a crying shame that other professionals get paid more and have better respect and job security. If you're not certain about this, go and visit Scott Adams.
Now, one might point out that an engineer (or teacher) with a BS has hardly worked as much as a cardiologist with eight years in grad school, and that's true. It might be rightly countered that a lot of lawyers and doctors are there because they didn't want to do higher math, and that many engineers and teachers also have graduate degrees.
However, I think that both arguments miss the main point; that extremely respected and well-paid professionals tend to be, or at least have the opportunity to be, entrepreneurs. Certainly this is the case for lawyers and doctors, who tend to work in partnerships, not corporations. It's also the case for financial consultants and businessmen.
And so it comes down, perhaps, to whether one figures out a way to get rid of your boss. It's not easy when a factory is needed to produce what you design, but maybe it's possible.
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You're absolutely right cuz being owners/entrepreneurs allows you to have workers work for you. You can work for someone all your life and really hard at that but you don't reap the rewards like profits, etc. However, to start your own business requires a lot of long hours in the beginning meaning sacrificing a lot of other things such as free time, friends, and family. The other thing is to start small or have a great business plan and get investors to help out. Therefore, if you whine, get a new job, if you find yourself whining all the time, start your own business:o)
Actually, Mercy, my desire wouldn't be to have someone working for me. Rather, it would be to eliminate the cost of layers of management, PR, HR, and so on and assign them to the bottom line.
For teachers, I wonder whether many could make a go with a one room schoolhouse setup.
Ah, so it's enterps working for enterps. That definitely creates ownership and incentive but as BuffAlum said, people prefer security first. In the end though, what is security when one works for a company for 15 years like Ford and gets a pink slip.
As for schools, public ones at least, I just started mentoring a fifth grade inner city kid and discovered that he's illiterate. My thought was how in the world was he able to pass into fifth freakin grade!!!
Yup, entrepreneurs selling to others--I've actually heard counsel that entrepreneurs not try to sell to OEMs because one of the overhead guys has one job; to "Scots" you out of your profit margins. And well said on security....
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