rcj@burl.ATT.COM (Curtis Jackson) (10/12/86)
In article <455@cci632.UUCP> rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes: >In article <1150@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu writes: >>In a recent article rb@ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) wrote: >>>The partner with the greater education, training, experience, and success >>>has a right to expect the partner with less to make sacrifices... >>So: them that has, gets more. That's a cruel way to think about a partnership! >>garry wiegand (garry%cadif-oak@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu) >Cruel? Perhaps, but also realistic. A promotion worth 10% to a partner >making $40,000 might cost the other partner making $10,000, 10%. Net gain >for the parnership, $3,000. . . . > >One of the best investments anyone can make is in the education of >a highly motivated person who has not yet reached their potential. >The education of a talented spouse almost guarentees a safe maximum >return on the investment. [Note: the following is not a personal attack; it is meant to be an eye-opener. I don't even know Garry!] The way you write reminds me of the asshole professor in Rodney Dangerfield's movie "Back to School" -- he was such a prick he couldn't even ask a woman to marry him; he instead talked of "merger" and "consolidation". "safe maximum return on investment"? Come on! Has everyone lost sight of life/job satisfaction as an issue? Do *you* want to live with someone who spends 40+ hours a week doing something they hate because you make more money than they do and therefore the career/location/job decisions always go your way? Do you think they're going to be very much fun to be around? Would you be? I know money is important; after all, you spend 2/3 of your waking hours away from work (unless you're like me lately ;-) and money helps you to enjoy that. But let's also face the fact that you spend 1/3 of your waking hours at work so you'd damned well better be doing something you enjoy. Is money more important than job satisfaction? Not to me, and not to anyone I have any real respect for, either. Last night I was having a discussion with a couple of friends; she's a schoolteacher fed up with her job (and for good reason, I might add). She knows that she can *easily* get a good job teaching elsewhere within easy driving distance of her current home. She bitched for well over an hour about the conditions she was working under at her current job. I finally asked her, "Why don't you quit?"; to which she replied, "But in a year I'll be tenured!" Not me, bud! -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd allegra ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua watmath ]!clyde!rcj