Phil Truly great painters and sculptors are as rare as truly great CEOs. And yet painters and sculptors often die broke, only to have their work net millions posthumously. Meanwhile pop stars with barely any skill in singingmake more than CEOs and snort it all up their noses.... The world is unfair. The most anyone can hope to do is to ignore the vast and not always explicable disparities in pay and find a job they enjoy and that gives them non-monetary satisfaction. In the case of self made CEOs - people like Bill Gates, I might agree that they earned it. But the guy who gets a $400,000 a year (plus stock options) VP job in daddy's company after having a free ride to Harvard Business School because his uncle's name is on the building? I'm not so sure. I agree with you on the idea of America and our freedom to change jobs. If you don't like your job, leave it. I'll add that losing a job due to layoffs shouldn't be the end for an American. If you get laid off and the job market in your field has gone to hell, then it's time to either change careers or get another degree. Or start a home business.... This is the land of opportunity. People who enjoy homebrew can still afford to live in New York City? Wow. I thought the tiny 1 bedroom condos with $300,000 price tags scared all the normal people away.... :-) Oh wait, I forgot about rent control and illegal sublets.... (Carry on) Greatest Movie Line EverLawrence: not So, Howzabout...."Network" ( 1976 !) - Peter Finch as Howard Beale Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are... WAJ (In Houston having fled the madness of New York.)
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