Why do lawyers earn so much money? We don't. I don't anyway.

Being married to a pilot, a lot of people ask me this "why do pilots earn so much anyway? Everything can be done by auto pilot."


Yes, that may be true if you have perfect and still skies every damn time you fly. Except that you don't. You sometimes fly into bad weather. Or perhaps into an Elmo's Fire. Or say, 2 out of the four engines of the aircraft fails, you think the so called "everything can be done by autopilot" will fly the damn plane for you?

Sure, like many out there, I die a little every time my husband jokes "even with a whole month off from flying, I still earn more than you." (this is usually followed by a chuckle, to which I will say it then makes perfect sense for me to no longer spend my meagre pay and spend all of his BIG FAT PAYCHECK- seriously. never say this to your wife.)

But still, a lot of people earn a lot of money for the type of job that they do because it probably has higher risks, bigger responsibilities, requires more thought and more of everything. And while we are at this topic, can I just say that just because your company has 600 staff and mine has 3, it does not make your job more important and mine any less important.

Seriously, what monkey's ass logic is it to say "Oh, goodla you can work in a small firm. Sure you get paid a lot more than I do right? And you don't have to do as much work."

The reason why you are not going home at 5.30pm is because you probably got to work at 10am. And the reason why you work piles up is probably because you are on FB during working hours, complaining about how much work you have, instead of actually DOING the damn work. So cut out the frills, the coffee breaks. the long lunches, the time spent on reading jokes in your email  inbox, time spent twitting and fb-ing about how much work you have, you may actually finish at 5pm.And then your job is no different from mine now is it? I just have better time management.

So two days ago, a friend posted a link about Flight Attendants.I mean, the title says it all "Flight Attendants: Unspoken Heroes."
I have two issues with this article. But before this I am not sure how some people can SKIM an article, gleaned probably 20% of what is being said in it, make a positive reading of it and then post it up as if it were quotes from a Holy Book. When if you read it slowly and thoroughly, you get paragraphs that say:-


"The asian airlines have small, petite, and dainty little creatures ‘serving’ you. With their “Hello Kitty’ trinkets on their phone, tons of make up (as they were trained to wear), and their weekly manicures. Regular little dolls. So much emphasis on how to please you visually. But how are they in case of emergency? I’ve been on flights with several airlines and have witnessed many times  the ‘thinking bulb’ blinking on top of their heads as they wonder if the proper arming and disarming technique was used. Boy, do I feel safe."

 I don't know about you, but if I were an Asian cabin crew, working with an Asian airline, I would be thoroughly, absolutely and incredibly INSULTED. But apparently not those who put up this link for everyone to see and capping it off with "read this and stop insulting us!"

All I can say is, woman, you insulted yourself by posting this link. I'm not sure how it is that you do not take offense of that paragraph that absolutely DEGRADES you, not only as a person, but of your culture, your intelligence and your professionalism. It's like writing an article that says

Doctors are great. They save lives, they are overworked and underpaid. But boy do these doctors give all they have for others. OH ASIAN DOCTORS ARE FULL OF SHIT. Respect doctors. The end.

And you think OMFG this is a great article about doctors?! Sure does not speak a lot about your intelligence. Just saying.

Anyway I digress. Moving along to the other thing I find disturbing about this article.

 "The General Publis is shocked at how much money some FAs make. What’s shocking is 10 FAs in one apartment that should house 2, to make ends meet. What’s shocking is lawyers who make 6 figures when most of what they learned was opened book, while people who save lives Dr.’s, nurses, and yes, FAs don’t."

Oh HELLO. That's the ultimate insult right there. If everything I learnt was OPEN BOOK, there would be no necessity for universities to ever award anything below 1st class Honours. I mean, if you are too stupid to score a 100% on an open book exam, you probably should not have embarked on studying law anyway. (that's another subject for another day)

And what an incredulously stupid and ignorant statement to make. Not all lawyers sit in their cushy offices and read documents. Not all lawyers just sign off on Hire Purchase documents, or merger what nots. Who do you think fights for those who have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in prison for crimes they have not committed? Who? Sure, you don't see us scouring document after document, looking at boxes and boxes of evidence, tracking up and down the court room everyday, grilling untruthful witnesses bent on nailing your client, whatever the cost. You don't see that. And you say "oh god, so unworthy of the money you earn."

So what you are saying is this- just because you are trained to help passengers evacuate in times of emergency, resuscitate passengers in distress or try to save drowning passengers if the airplane should God Forbid, crash- and the possibility of being struck by lightning has a higher chance of happening-YOU save more lives than lawyers who are in court every day trying to keep innocent persons from being punished for crimes they did not commit?

Right.

I'm sorry. I don't get it. I have no disrespect for Flight Attendants. But boy I WILL find issue with statements such as above.

You do your job and I will do mine.

Just as I respect your ability to work tirelessly throughout a 16 hour flight while looking absolutely flawless, get off the plane, rest for a mere 10 hours and do it all over again, day after day, you respect that I too, have different challenges in my job.

Are we clear?