Okay so I had to steal yesterdays front page of the Review section of the Globe and Mail at my one of 3 coffee shops near the office...and not because Justin Timberlake was on the cover re: his concert 2 nights ago in TO (who cares that it was his birthday yesterday, like, every radio station had that as an announcement) but I digress...it was because of this article:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070201.wmuseums01/BNStory/Entertainment/home
I find this article at once alarming, hilarious and totally hypocritical...Three issues to discuss
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070201.wmuseums01/BNStory/Entertainment/home
I find this article at once alarming, hilarious and totally hypocritical...Three issues to discuss
1. While other mid to large cities or small communities struggle to provide services and venues for their cultural offerings...Abu Dhabi is building a cultural Disneyland to shed its perceived associations with terrorism. WTH?
2. And the Canadian firm fronting the plans are well known globally and locally – they are experts in their field and have established many benchmarks in cultural and museum planning. They work all over the world on multi-million dollar projects all the time. I wonder then how they can justify paying educated, creative and student-loan strapped individuals on their staff less than it requires to live modestly in a metropolitan city and then ask them ‘You don’t have a dog to go home to at night or anything, do you?’ – i.e. you are in for some long underpaid hours and you better like them. As rewarding as the work may at times be, anyone can tire of being underpaid and underappreciated. And I am talking shockingly so….which leads me to:
3. I often wonder about the gap in salary that Master’s degrees can offer…I have a friend who works long hours, she is not passionate about the work, but she makes 6 figures and travels a dozen times a year for pleasure while those with a congruent degree struggle to make ends meet at a job that they feel makes a difference, and that they began with passion. As long as employers and the economy continue to undervalue liberal arts degrees, we will continue to get underpaid while the MBA’s and LLB’s of the world toil at what they hate but gain an enormous and disproportionate amount of the ‘collective pot’.
2. And the Canadian firm fronting the plans are well known globally and locally – they are experts in their field and have established many benchmarks in cultural and museum planning. They work all over the world on multi-million dollar projects all the time. I wonder then how they can justify paying educated, creative and student-loan strapped individuals on their staff less than it requires to live modestly in a metropolitan city and then ask them ‘You don’t have a dog to go home to at night or anything, do you?’ – i.e. you are in for some long underpaid hours and you better like them. As rewarding as the work may at times be, anyone can tire of being underpaid and underappreciated. And I am talking shockingly so….which leads me to:
3. I often wonder about the gap in salary that Master’s degrees can offer…I have a friend who works long hours, she is not passionate about the work, but she makes 6 figures and travels a dozen times a year for pleasure while those with a congruent degree struggle to make ends meet at a job that they feel makes a difference, and that they began with passion. As long as employers and the economy continue to undervalue liberal arts degrees, we will continue to get underpaid while the MBA’s and LLB’s of the world toil at what they hate but gain an enormous and disproportionate amount of the ‘collective pot’.
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