Thursday, July 24, 2008
Most overpaid jobs
You can add your own. The one I like is: Photographers earn a national average of $1,900 for a wedding, though many charge $2,500 to $5,000 for a one-day shoot, client meeting and processing time that runs up to 20 hours or more, and the cost of materials. ... Much of their work is mediocre... Hmmm.... Why do stooopid Ricains pay big bucks for this crap?
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Speaking of stoopid, who are those 3 percent of Americans who think a dollar worth about a peso makes for cheaper travel overseas (and 14% who think no impact)? Hmmm... Methinks it's all those brain fryers frying them brains. Yes JJ? JJ? Are you there?
AI, I dabble in this sort of thing, helping a friend shoot wedding videos with high-end digital photography here and there. Yes, one singular days work does appear to be a bit excessive, but what is often missed, and what people don't think about, is all the labor/time that goes into sorting through photos, distilling hundreds into an album. When it comes to videography, there are countless hours of digitally splicing and linking pieces of footage, matching the audio (holy shit that takes a while), and trying to do all of this often when many wedding-goers are hesitant to even say something to the wedding party into the camera.
Well, OK, OK -- by the standards of the other loafers who make gazzilion dollars by just sitting there or moving paper around, this is rather tame. I was just trying to yank Pepe's chain...
How about this restaurant critic? Does he deserve the money he makes?
I was just trying to yank Pepe's chain...
You or Pepe try to yank the other's chain? Really?
;-)
How about this restaurant critic? Does he deserve the money he makes?
Sounds like he's cool under pressure, or when someone else makes mistakes. It'd be great to work under that guy... Kidding aside, I'll do the same, submit this or that to local publications, and ask them in the e-mail if they could just publish it as-is. "Oh, sure. It'll fit fine..." Then, once printed, I read it and find all sorts of mistakes. I reconsult the original document I sent them, and find that spelling was correct when I handed it to them. Copy editors are Sloppy Editors.
Same think happens when publishing papers in scholarly journals. Once they even changed my address, interchanging West and East somewhere -- just like that. Jeepers!
They swapped your address?! Ha!
Does anyone pay attention to anything anymore? Are we (the Royal Western Civilization We) so overworked that sight is lost on these otherwise minute but important details?
Okay, okay, I'll stop with my tangent. I'll pick it up later.
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