JOBS

From Yahoo! Hot Jobs: "As long as human beings continue to inhabit the planet, there are many worthwhile and fulfilling jobs that will never go away." The jobs listed were ACCOUNTANT, COMPUTER SUPPORT SPECIALIST, TEACHER, ENTREPRENEUR, AUTO MECHANIC, and PARAMEDIC. Please, please, please!!! They completely forgot about DOCTOR, LAWYER, MEDICAL field employee, PHARMACIST, GOVERNMENT employee. CARPENTER, PLUMBER, ELECTRICIAN, and FARMER. We all need houses, food, medical care, and transportation. Everything else can wait. That man is not a government employee - he's my grandpa.

Starving Artists

From an article about executive pay: “Many musicians approve of high executive salaries – if, that is, the orchestra is doing well. But when it is not, frustration arises, as it also does over inequities in players' pay scale. The base pay of a New York Philharmonic musician is now $103,000. According to 2003 tax records, Glenn Dicterow, the New York Philharmonic concertmaster, was making $366,000 (this does not include income from engagements outside his orchestra schedule.) The have-nots in this scheme are primarily section string players, who have to pay for instruments costing significantly more than woodwinds or brasses – often in five or six figures. And in the case of brand-name soloists, the disparity is even more enormous. The violinist Itzhak Perlman and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, two of the most reliable box-office draws in the field, are reliably said to make from $65,000 to $70,000 per night. That is as much as full-time players at orchestras like the Dallas Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony make in a year.” This, of course, is peanuts compared to the salaries and bonuses of some of the country's large corporations. I think the average salary among those ranks is about $14 million. The woman at left is not an orchestra player, but that is entirely irrelevant.

Jobs

I don't remember where I picked this quote from, but it really makes no difference.

By Jason Simpkins and William Patalon III: "U.S. consumers are already losing their jobs at an accelerating rate. The same thing is now set to happen to their credit lines. But with so many Americans already losing their main source of income – their jobs – at an ever-spiraling rate, will an economy that derives two-thirds of its power from consumer spending end up mired in its worst funk in decades because those same consumers are now losing their charge accounts?" Some people don't like working all that much anyway, so why complain? For some reassurance, look at the lady's hemline - it's a little high, so that means there's nothing to worry about - things will turn out ok. At least there's unemployment compensation. Things could be bleaker - you could be burning at the stake for voicing your opinion, no? Relax and take a walk in the park. That's what I'm gonna do.