Do you believe that wealthy people work harder than the rest of us? (self employed, highest)
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I think I work pretty darn hard. I put in significantly more than 8 hours a day at work, and I often put in extra hours at nights and on weekends answering email and doing research. A lot of my co-workers do the same. Yet we work for state government, and will never make big bucks. I know a lot of folks who work just as hard or even harder, some of them at jobs that entail manual labor, yet will never make more than $30,000 or $40,000 a year. So why are some careers valued so much more than others? Do the people in those jobs really work harder than the average person?
Most people I know that make big money work VERY hard. Celebrities work hard. All types of work is different. Most could not do my job, it doesn't seem hard to me. Then I remember when it was featured on Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe saying the drilling rig was the most intimating piece of equipment he had ever been around. We all have been watching the campaigns. I doubt if I could maintain that pace. I feel that way about waitress work to. Just what your used to I guess.
Successful self employed people work hardest of any people I have been around. It is their life and everything they make goes to them and that company. So they are more than willing to put in tons of hours.
Unlike the stupid hours that corps make you put in, because they are taking advantage of the fact that they don't have to pay you for overtime when you are on salary.
Successful self employed people work hardest of any people I have been around. It is their life and everything they make goes to them and that company. So they are more than willing to put in tons of hours.
Unlike the stupid hours that corps make you put in, because they are taking advantage of the fact that they don't have to pay you for overtime when you are on salary.
And there is the problem. You can't have it both ways. The security of a salary or, taking the risk of failure.
And there is the problem. you can't have it both ways. The security of a salary, or taking the risk of failure.
What about corporate executives? They have the security of a salary, plus stock options, bonuses, perks like company cars and jets, and who knows what else. Are they really entitled to the almost obscene amount of money that they make? Think about the oil company executives. The little guy is forking over the $$ for gas and heating oil, the oil companies are making record profits, and the CEO's are walking away with millions.
What about corporate executives? They have the security of a salary, plus stock options, bonuses, perks like company cars and jets, and who knows what else. Are they really entitled to the almost obscene amount of money that they make? Think about the oil company executives. The little guy is forking over the $$ for gas and heating oil, the oil companies are making record profits, and the CEO's are walking away with millions.
Some place they took a risk. Played their cards right. Used their luck to their best advantage. Their salary is between them and the stock holders.
Where I work the highest paid are also the hardest workers.
I have a relative that was a corporate executive and he worked very hard, long hours, made really tough decisions, worked 9-10 hour days every day, sometimes more, and worked every weekend.
PHYSICAL labor is practically unknown to the wealthy. Kissing butt--if you call that hard work--is.
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