Originally Posted by
tsquare
Yeah I don't disagree with the points you make in general. We are underpaid. Definitely. I found your comment about first year people interesting. You can say that about ANY profession though. I am sure that first year doctors looooove what they are doing initially, but after 20 years of midnight emergency calls, 20 hour days, Yada yada yada, they probably feel underpaid too. If I could just get my handicap down to scratch it would be sooooo awesome.
Let it go..... it's not worth the angst. Really.
The only part of it that bothers me is when it fuels an over supply at the bottom end that allows managements industry wide to anchor us with our own enthusiasm.
Then again, people still haven't figured out that paying 6 figures for a reading list of free material that, even if you ace it, has a guaranteed zero to substantially negative ROI; millions fall for it every year with no end in sight and instead of learning from it, they demand more subsidies and bailouts which will only exacerbate it.
So at least its not just us I guess.
I actually do think its cool (over all) that we tend to like our jobs though.