Assistant Village Idiot
2008-02-15 08:16:54
People tend to assign job status on the basis of entry requirements rather than on difficulty or skill. MD has high entry requirements, so even a bad one has status. Mom has low entry requirements so even a good one has lower status. There are other jobs like that, most of which involve working with people. Being great at a low entry requirement job is nearly always underappreciated – to strangers, or those who know you only slightly. Only those who know your work will ever admire it.
Of course, those are ultimately the people that count, aren’t they? The automatic admiration of a title is gratifying, but ultimately not very sustaining.
