[BC] Why One answer

[Bernie Courtney]

You are comparing a salary position to one of an independent contractor
which is somewhat misleading.  A person or company can afford to pay a
contractor (whether that person is an engineer, plumber, electrician, etc)
$100/hr for a relatively short period of time until a project is completed.
Sustaining that rate for extended periods of time however isn't practical.

bern

On 7/21/06, Dana Puopolo <dpuopolo at usa.net> wrote:
>
> Like I said, it doesn't seem to matter to the rates the plumber or
> mechanic or
> electrician get - so why does it mmatter to the engineer?...or are lower
> on
> the totem pole then they guy who gets paid (more then us!) to fix toilets?
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:20:38 AM EDT
> From: "JYRussell at academicplanet.com" <jyrussell at academicplanet.com>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: Re: [BC] Why  One answer
>
> One of the answers I was given years ago was that it was "paying your
> dues"... The reasoning was "Obviously, the well-paid CE for a bajillion
> watt
> TV powerhouse had to start somewhere... and you only get that kind of
> education a couple of ways... one way is to pay to go to college for it...
> the other, pay for it in labor and hands-on experience"...
>
>    I admit, it's probably a better education than falling asleep in class,
> and it's got a lot of value....but wouldn't it be nice to afford food and
> gas while you're going though it all !
>
> Jason
>
>
> <snip>
> The work we do is
> the same whether we're fixing an FM25K in Chicago or Presque Isle, Maine.
> In
> fact, fixing that rig in Maine can be HARDER due to the inabilty to have
> local
> parts available.
>
> Why?
>
> -D
>
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