“I’m really good at it, and I really like it. And it’s heartbreaking to me it doesn’t pay what I feel it should.” Read that again: It isn’t fair that I can’t get paid what I want for what I want to do…
My heart bleeds for her. We’d all like to make more money at what we do.
We all gotta make choices. Sometimes it means doing what we gotta rather than what we want to do as a career. If what we want to do doesn’t pay enough, the we gotta find something that does. One does not have to be an academic.
OH, BOO-HOOO!
If you have skills that others need, the work finds you.