Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
Most of the work that goes on in this country that I would call "hard" doesn't actually pay very well.
Most of the time the more money a person makes/has the less hard work he has actually done.
Oh, because one just starts out in the executive suite? Guess again.
Let's take my business for an example. We do event promotions, and we're still a small business. Our long-term business plan calls for having our own building, which will house an event venue hall, a cafe/nightclub, and business offices. Judging by our counterparts in Phoenix, we should be quite well-off financially by that point. But that's just the finished product, as is getting dressed up and going to terrific parties and concerts.
The background is that I can start this business and build it to that point and beyond because I put in sixteen years working my way up from being a receptionist/file clerk to being an administrative assistant, in the process learning everything there is to know about business admin and organization and how to plan successful events. My partner put in comparable career time at shit jobs, learning marketing and sales from the ground up. Right now, we are the only employees we have, so we do every job there is, from going to the meetings to standing in line at the various government offices to filling out the reams of paperwork required by those government offices to climbing the ladders to hang the decorations to handing out fliers on the street to picking up the trash after the party so the venue doesn't complain. And we both work on the side to keep food in our mouths (well, I'm a housewife, so I work to keep my husband working, but whatever). And it'll be that way for years.
Would you like to tell me that some guy we hire to clean and maintain the building or some chick we hire to tend the bar five years from now works harder for my business and is more entitled to the profits, just because their jobs involve more obvious physical labor at that point in time?
The one thing you can be sure of is that if someone didn't inherit their money - and maybe even if they did - they put in their time and paid their dues to get there.