Some people measure the worth of a job by degrees. How many degrees did it take to get your current job?
And should you receive more money if you have more degrees?
And just what is a degree, anyway? How do we measure the value of any job? A doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, a bus driver? a CEO? a teacher? a garbage collector?
Each one plays a vital role in our communities well being. Why do we assign more value to one over another? Are our values so scrambled that we can just shrug off the fact that we pay more to our professional athletes than we do to our teachers? We hold our bankers in higher esteem than we do our police and fire fighters?
It's obvious that we reward those we feel are of greatest value with the most money.
Perhaps we should establish a national conference to devise some sort of criteria, a job importance scale. I think we would find most jobs about equal in importance to our society. But maybe we'd decide we could do without some jobs. Anyway, we could level out the pay scale and find other meaningful rewards for those who served above and beyond, or had exceptional talents.
My list would place Teachers, garbage collectors, police, fire fighters, road maintenence workers and day care workers toward the top.
Bankers, brokers, insurance sales people, politicians, would all be down the ladder a way. Toward the bottom would be promoters, generals, professional athletes, gogo dancers, most lobbiests, tobacco company executives and junk food peddlars.
On any given day the bus driver was far more important to me than all the CEO's on Wall Street.
While I love baseball, do we really need to put these guys in mansions and fancy cars for playing a game?
If I had a magic wand I would wave it and cause all snobbery to disappear. If we could look at one another with respect, and appreciate what talents each of us bring to our community, we would not feel the need to wave our degrees or other credentials under one another's noses.
Curious Carl
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