Peter Hear, hear! It’s insane. My spouse is a physician, a specialist earning 10x what I earned as a full-time faculty at a local university, teaching hands-on production and writing courses. I sometimes worked more hours than my husband in a week. I loved my work with students and didn’t mind the low pay, but was my worth 10x less than my husband’s? I watched him save lives in the middle of the night, that’s true, so I understand how valuable that is when it is your life or a loved one’s, but come on. He always said he would do his work for less pay because it was the work itself that motivated him, just like it did me. We’re both just about retired now so too late for us, but I hope the generations behind us have more equitable pay.

Peter Hear, hear! It’s insane. My spouse is a physician, a specialist earning 10x what I earned as a full-time faculty at a local university, teaching hands-on production and writing courses. I sometimes worked more hours than my husband in a week. I loved my work with students and didn’t mind the low pay, but was my worth 10x less than my husband’s? I watched him save lives in the middle of the night, that’s true, so I understand how valuable that is when it is your life or a loved one’s, but come on. He always said he would do his work for less pay because it was the work itself that motivated him, just like it did me. We’re both just about retired now so too late for us, but I hope the generations behind us have more equitable pay.

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