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WCA I think £75k is still in the realm of being earnt, whether its hours, firefighting or stressing about targets.
Not literal firefighting or targets, I assume, because I'd guess it's rather more than firefighters or police marksmen get.
I [i]earnt[/i] that sort of money by being really rather good at my job and saving my company millions of pounds per year. That would involve more than just turning up every day though - a large chunk would be performance based. I guess they thought I was worth it. In fact, they offered to pay me even more to go back as a contractor, but I found earning a pittance in a bike shop to be a bit more rewarding.
I'd guess it's rather more than firefighters or police marksmen get.
Thank god. Have you seen the accidental discharge rates for armed police?
But I fully agree with what you are saying, any higher and you are getting to the 'sitting on the board' kind of catagory.
Or else you're getting to the category of people who spent a lot of time and effort at school and uni when their peers were out getting bladdered, and then later in their jobs, getting specific skills, and being good at spotting when to use them, and accepting a life without security or continuity, and the probability that you work in some unpleasant and dangerous places.
But hey, don't let me put a damper on your inverse snobbery.
Or else you're getting to the category of people who spent a lot of time and effort at school and uni when their peers were out getting bladdered
Possibly - for every hard working dedicated professional as you describe, there's another cocky sales-based git who bullsh*ts his way to the top learning how to schmooze people in posh hotel bars and clubs...
Possibly 🙂
Could well be, and a whole lot of worthy professionals who get paid a lot less, but I'm just saying that some people on a good wage earn their money.
Undoubtedly. However as is well known, you don't get paid based on how hard you work, you get paid based on how many people can do what you can do and how badly your employer needs you to do it.
Sad but true.
you don't get paid based on how hard you work, you get paid based on how many people can do what you can do and how badly your employer needs you to do it
Of course, but employers find it harder to find people who can do difficult stuff, so such people get paid more.
Yep. There's an element of luck involved.
why are you lot grizzling? some people earn more money than you. get over it.
.Yep. There's an element of luck involved
There's an element of luck in that some people are born smarter, or with other positive attributes.
Or get Government assisted places at top schools - lucky me.
There's an element of luck in that some people are born smarter, or with other positive attributes.
Yep. Sad but true again.