Be more specific.
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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
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January 13th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Spot on!
January 13th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I think you could replace “pay” with “knowledge required to complete job”, and the graph would still be fairly accurate.
January 13th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Oh, man, Nick, you’d be surprised sometimes. I’ve met some pretty ill-informed specialists, and I’ve required some surprisingly detailed knowledge to complete some tasks as a general labourer.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
What exactly is a “general laborer”? All I can think of is construction guys.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
i would agree that a general laborer would usually be a construction guy. and ive worked with a lot of construction workers that knew way more than any specialist ive ever seen.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:34 am
i’d imagine a ‘general laborer’ to be a textile worker, a guy on a factory line, etc.
construction workers often require much more overall knowledge of the process than the guy that checks the caps on pickle jars.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:13 am
This economy is hammering the specialists.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:21 am
I think the two dots on the graph have been labelled the wrong way round. Most of the general labourers I know earn way more than the specialists I know!
January 14th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
There might also be a factor of “do you get paid for it.”
There are plenty of strange hobbies that a handful of people have been able to parlay into a living.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:34 am
It is true. People with more special knowledge get high salary than ordinary people.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
General Labor — unloading boxcars, surveyors assistant, jobs you can get through Manpower, etc.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
A lovely pun on the literal vs. customary definition of “odd job”…
March 27th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
this could be in the case of physicians: General practitioners and Specialists