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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (24891)10/28/2004 6:47:35 PM
From: GraceZRead Replies (3) of 306849
 
It's hard work for sure....but 98% of the world's population would give their collective right nut in a second to do it for 60K a year.....

You are absolutely right about the rest of the world. It is why they risk their lives to come here and work in conditions most Americans don't want to have anything to do with. What makes me crazy is to listen to local politicians claim that there are no good paying jobs for people in Baltimore with manual skills, knowing full well how hard it is to get any of these people to actually show up and apply for the work. John has to give the work to Mexicans and South Americans just because they show up!

My photo clients make anywhere from $800 to $4500 a day to shoot pictures (most work between 10 to 20 days a month shooting) and there has never been a client lunch where I don't have to listen to them whining about how difficult is is to make money in photography (I'm well paid to listen to this). Usually at some point I quietly ask them what would they do if they had to do what either I do or what my husband does every day. That usually shuts them up. Most are totally unaware that they are in the top 20% of income earners in the US and the top 1% in the world. Their affluence is totally wasted on them because they only see that someone else has more than they do. I'm left with the conclusion that the more money someone has the more miserable it makes them.
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