Most underpaid profession?

Torry_Quine

Indie_Kid wrote: »

Not always! Mum is a carer and has to deal with trachies, the various machines, tube feeding, etc. Hardly something that requires little training.

Well said, it can be a very highly skilled job. Even something which seems straightforward like using a hoist needs training to use properly.

Armorica

Probably teacher in an inner city school - it edges out nursing as teacher's are at more personal risk and far more prone to taking work home.

FBaby

Ultimately, as a rule, salaries increase with responsibility and risk rather than actual duties.

Ie. an employee does a very demanding physical job whilst his boss takes it easy in the office. However, if the employee was to have an deadly accident at work, even if it was the result of his negligence, but it was found that the boss failed in some health and safety check, despite having nothing to do with the death, he could end up in jail for a number of years.

If you are more at risk of a finger being pointed at you when something goes wrong, the more likely you are to earn more.

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slimfandango wrote: »

Putting those cones out on the motorway is the most dangerous job so I guess binman must be right behind it. Never see any women doing that job. I expect the feminists to protest this soon. Rubbish feminism.

My friend worked for several years on the bins from the age of 18. They decided to study for a part-time degree and once qualified moved into waste management. My friend is female.

tea_lover

I'd say carers. There's some management changes going on at the home where my Grandad lives - it's gone from being somewhere I'd happily recommend to a bit of a mess in the last month. The carers get NMW, and work 12-14 hour shifts. I certainly wouldn't say it was unskilled work (how many here would know how to change an indwelling catheter, deal with feeding tubes or operate a hoist?) They work with difficult, and sometimes violent residents.

aileth

Carers and certain types of nursing staff. My MIL is a home-midwife and she definitely seems to have it cushty, drives around the community on a generous salary in her heavily subsidised car finishing at 5 o'clock every evening.

I have a friend who is an A&E Nurse and I would not do her job for all the tea in china, especially at her wage.

Taggo

redcard wrote: »

How can Police and Firemen be so severely underpaid when vacancies are so oversubscribed?

Firemen and Policemen spend most of their working day doing hardly anything.

You are grossly ill informed. I'm a firefighter. Would I continue to do it if all we done was sit around all day? Course not, life is too short. Not gona explain to you what my day consists of, don't need to justify it, rest assured I'm kept busy between turn outs, just the way I like it. I hear it a lot but mostly it seems to be envy from people who would love to do the job but couldn't make it!

On the subject of pay, I knew what I was getting in to, took a pay cut to do it, and I love the job so feel very lucky.

Gettin back on topic, after spending a few days in hospital 4 years ago I can absolutely agree nurses are worth their weight in gold, something I could never do, and they are paid nowhere near enough for what they do.

DKLS

Any job where its not easy to apply a value to that role or a role that doesn't generate revenue.
What numbers could you apply to a bin man, nurse or carer?

Marktheshark

I would say construction workers + farmers .
Construction workers can take a field and turn it in to a multi story building for all the people that think they do important things to swan around in.
None of the people who do the swanning around could build anything.

Without builders we would be living in caves and under piles of sticks.
Without farmers we would have regular famine and food shortages.
Depends how you value "important"
Personally I think we undervalue the basics we take for granted.

DKLS

Marktheshark wrote: »

I would say construction workers + farmers .
Construction workers can take a field and turn it in to a multi story building for all the people that think they do important things to swan around in.
None of the people who do the swanning around could build anything.

Without builders we would be living in caves and under piles of sticks.
Without farmers we would have regular famine and food shortages.
Depends how you value "important"
Personally I think we undervalue the basics we take for granted.

Without the people swanning around multi-story buildings there would be no multi-story building project for the poor construction workers to build.