What do you do for a living?

Owner for a repair shop work on cars,tractors, tractor trailers a little of everything. Also own a sprint car that we race all around the northeast and into cananda.

 

I don't know about that... the examples sited in relation to this don't really require any sort of knowledge outside of a narrow spectrum. I don't see how fans allow people who are nothing more than simply athletic make so much. It's disproportionately ridiculous.

So you can hit a ball with a stick. Cool. Here's enough money to retire 1000 times! :

the poor have their same sort of marital and dog fighting problems, etc. Money ain't got nothin to do with it other than exposure.

Why is it any worse for the wealthy to be normal than it is for poor or middle class to be normal? I think the majority of people from all classes are nice, normal, good folks.

I don't think it's fair to equate wealth with being a bonehead.

I think it's the culture of the job. I honestly think it's expected of them by their peers. Skull & Bones sort of thing. But basically, yeah, I agree.

You are one responsible dude! That's a cool pedigree dude.

that is such an odd thing to be able to say. I mean, I would've said it too, it's an interesting tidbit. Just kind of struck me when I read it.

This one struck me too. Neat. Interesting to think of who you meet ... er, um, I mean who meets you after you go.

 

I agree with that. We just don't hear about all the other people that get caught doing "bad" things. And I do agree that athletes are overpaid, but it's because they work in a specialized field and there are less of them in proportion to other jobs. It's the same reason doctors make more. I remember in my Economics class in college that we discussed this and there was a formula for it....just can't remember it now!

 

I do not follow any sports really so I may be wrong... but I am pretty sure that most college athletes do not make the draft... or to the pros

I would say there is huge pool of talent to choose from... more so than other fields even.

 

Right, there's a huge amateur pool, but not a large pro pool. So the pros make a lot.

 

I don't follow... how does there being a limited amount of paid positions (i.e. team members or whatever they call themselves) equate to higher pay? The supply of talent is larger than the demand for positions - which makes competition for the positions rigorous, sure. But still.

 

In the NASA leadership courses they do a lot of personality profile training to help us to understand the folks we are leading across these very diverse teams spanning multiple cultures globally.

One thing to understand is that the personality types that drive themselves to positions of "fame" are typically not the "normal personality" profiles. If they were, they wouldn't likely be famous. In one very interesting course, they had a break down of 64 profiles. The overall population followed a bell curve as you would expect.... most of the population in the middle, in a predictable set of "normal" personalities. What the course did that was interesting was in the ends of the bell curve for the less common profiles they correlated those personalities to historically famous people who had those personalities.

Some asked, "My personality profile is X. (One of the ones in the middle). Who was famous with that personality?" The answer was "Not very many people, but there are alway exceptions caused by circumstances."

People from any profile could become famous, but it was strikingly obvious that people that were driven to do things that made them famous were from specific groups of profiles.

Along with those profiles come other traits... some good, some bad. Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were big time womanizers. Ben Franklin made Tiger Woods look tame.

I point is that fame doesn't per se cause the behavior. The behavior was an artifact of the personality that got them there in the first place in many cases.

Not making excuses for anyone, but I thought it was really interesting to see those correlations.

M

 

I'm a coral and fish entertainer.

 

<P>i build 20 million dollar yachts.</P>

 

For example, a team has a small number of players in which to divide up it's salary money. Where a retail store, like Macy's, has a large number of employees to pay, therefore they are going to make less than an athlete.

And it's like CEOs. They have very specialized knowledge and jobs, and there is usually only one or two of them per company, so they are paid more than the large number of employees.

I'm not saying I agree with it!