Compensation

I have been thinking about meaningful work and jobs and salaries (and their apparent inverse correlation) a lot lately. It seems clear to me that the more actual value you deliver, the less one is compensated. Why has our society developed in this way? Why is there no financial incentive to do anything good, or even worthwhile?


I think meaningful work exclusively exists below $80K/year. Let me know if you can think of an exception.

I have been thinking about quitting my job to go clean up oil in the gulf. I don't love the idea of being poor though... I need tickets to sporting events and sneakers.

Slackers

Happy Labor Day you slackers. It is not a holiday here, so I'll be at work, laboring.

I seem to have broken my coccyx bone again for a third time. I'm not sure how. I think this is just being old. It is pretty impossible to sit or lie on my back. It happened at work.

Luckily, in this day and age there is an online community for everything. This is my newest social peer group. Seriously gripping reading.

This weekend involved a lot of lying on my stomach, a half birthday for Joy and Jacko at 54 Laity and VOS training.

This was the last weekend of the regular season of AFL. The top 8 (of 16) make the "finals" (the playoffs). They will work toward the Grand Final (super bowl) over the next few weekends.

It's a little wack. Next weekend: 1 plays 4, 2 plays 3, 5 plays 8 and 7 plays 6. The losers of the 5/8 and the 7/6 game are eliminated. The winners of the 1/4, 2/3 get a bye next weekend. The losers of the 1/4, 2/3 play the winners of 5/8 & 7/6. So two weekend from now... lets say everyone holds seed. 4 will play 6 and 3 will play 5. The winners of those games will play the two teams who had a bye, and the winners of those games will play each other in the grand final. If you go back and read this paragraph 5 more times it still won't make any sense. Sorry.

Next weekend is the NUFL 2 tournament. The weekend after that I'll throw a finals party.

It's warm here and spring is coming on full force.