As Russell Wilson looks for a new home after being released from the Broncos with history’s biggest ‘dead money’, there is renewed talk that quarterbacks, and football players in general, are often overpaid. However, talk about someone being overpaid has, at some point or another, touched on almost every profession in this world.
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Televangelist.
Influencer.
Mine. IT strategist. I explain to executives that many of their current problems are the result of not listening to my previous advice. Then I give them fresh new advice that they will ignore. Rinse and repeat.
Senators. They get paid to sit around and vote yes or no and argue about st. And when they can’t agree on st the whole government shuts down.
Super s****y doctors that can’t get a job in clinical medicine, often due to repeated board complaints or loss of medical license (for incompetence/unethical behavior, etc), can go and work for insurance companies reviewing/denying insurance claims.
Self-help gurus.
On the other hand, for example, various managerial positionsin ITalso do not always mean that a person receives insane money literally for nothing. In the end, an IT architect or a team lead is a person who, in the vast majority of cases, has gone through the entirecareer pathfrom a junior developer, and now they are paid not so much for their skills, but for the knowledge and experience acquired during this long way. Knowledge and experience, which, you see, are worth the money.
Google pays my sister 250k/year to basically sign in once a day and check emails. She can’t even explain what her job is. She doesn’t even code.Edit: She didn’t get hired right in to this position. She started at the temp level 7 years ago, and has continued to apply for promotions over the years. Ended up on a team put together for some project, and Google pulled the plug on it. Ever since they basically pay those people just to keep them.
Consultant (e.g. KPMG, Deloitte etc.)Like straight out of university who/what tf are you consulting??? And as a 23 y/o how do you have the experience to consult someone who’s been doing their job for decades???.
A lot of sales jobs.I’m a tractor/machinery salesman, pays very well but wild to me what little impact I have in society. Most of the people that buy were going to buy anyway- and if I was BRUTAL at my job they’d still buy the machinery it’d just be a different color.I’m not depressed about it- just wild to think about because some of the most impactful jobs in society pay the least. I’d imagine the local school teacher has a vastly larger impact on the community.
“We can say as much as we want that this or that occupation is ‘useless’, but if it’s a profession related to business or commerce, then, most likely, it is still needed for the company. Of course, it often happens that management ‘produces’ various managerialpositions, the presence of which is not always justified, but this, it seems to me, is more a special case than a rule,” Olga summarizes.
HR anywhere.
Well, there was that conceptual artist who got paid $120,000 for duct taping a banana to a wall…twice.Perhaps that actually was useful and even important. Maybe it was some kind of galactic code to tell the alien scouts not to destroy our planet. But I doubt it.
Boeing 737 MAX quality inspector.
Middle managers. At every single previous job I could not tell you a single thing that any of the middle managers actually did other than talk to their managers and my managers. They exist solely to send 3 emails per day, sit in 4 meetings, and collect a paycheck.
Just occurred to me because I heard about a guy whose entire job is reselling magic the gathering cards and apparently he makes a lot.
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Scrum masters get 6 figures to ask people their status.
Anything that involves the stock market, these guys contribute nothing of value to society.
Professional poker player.
Wall Street hedgefund manager.
Fly to Australia and become a traffic guard on a building site.
A lot of “middle men” jobs. Especially car dealers. They are glorified cashiers/customer service reps. They barely serve a purpose today with smartphones/internet at your fingertips. For example, you just Google: " I’m looking for a minivan that is reliable and comes with a hybrid option." You can go from there with further questions and even consumer reviews. Amazing. Need financing? Call a credit union or bank.
Corporate lawyers fighting other corporate lawyers.
Real Estate Agent.
Anything in college administration.
Model.
Dropshipping.
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