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Gordon, I have never been to those sites but the bottom line is that in a situation where you are earning an active income meaning, you are paid for a certain # of hours per day, and you have to show up to to get paid, you are being paid for what the position is worth not what you are worth. You could be worth a million dollars but working in a 50,000 dollar position. That's the beauty of direct sales or network marketing. You get paid in direct correlation to the effort you put in so if you want to make more you can do more work and there is opportunity for residual income. In an active income situation at some point, usually weekly or by-weekly, you start back at zero and no matter what company you work for there is always a ceiling to your income

To further illustrate your point, Henry Woods,For the past two years my work environment has been changing, giving workers more and more and more responsiblity while cutting benefits. At the same time the maintenance of equipment is almost non-existent causing frustrating delays in completing tasks, and the forever increasing micro-management (that doesn't work and interferes) is the final thing that makes people just want to walk out the door. I suppose upper management is just very nervous about the economy. It reminds me of this list of nurse's duties from 1887 I had lying around the house which was re-printed in the Gatesville Gazette in the early 1990's. I feel increasingly like I'm one of these nurses!

Nurses's Schedule of Duties and Regulations, 1887 In addition to caring for your 50 patients each nurse will follow these regulations:

1. Daily sweep and mop the floors of your ward; dust the patients furniture and window sills.

2. Maintain an even temperature in your ward by bringing in a scuttle of coal for the day's business.

3. Each day fill kerosene lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks. Wash windows weekly.

4. The nurse's notes are important to aiding the physician's work. Make your pens carefully; you may whittle nibs to your individual taste.

5.Each nurse on day duty will report every day at 7 a.m. and leave at 8 p.m., except on the Sabbath, on which you will be off from 12 noon to 2 p.m.

6. Graduate nurses in good standing with the Director of Nurses will be given an evening off each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if you go regularly to church.

7. Each nurse should lay side from each pay day a goodly sum of her earnings for her benefits during her declining years, so that she will not become a burden. For example if you earn $30.00 per month, you should set aside $15.00.

8. Any nurse who smokes, uses liquor in any form, gets her hair done at a beauty shop, or frequents dance halls will give the Director of Nurses good reason to suspect her worth, intentinos and integrity.

9. The nurse who performs her labors and serves her patients and doctors faithfully and without fault for a period of five years will be given an increase by the hospital administration of five cents a day, providing there are no hospital debts that are outstanding.

Besides the pay we receive, we want to be able to do our jobs well, which provides self esteem and a feeling of accomplishment. This can become impossible with severe cut-backs in staffing and maintenance of computers and other tools that we need to do our jobs properly. The job is not rewarding at this point. So, it's not all about the salary and wages. In the above example, there is no way a nurse can take care of 50 patients, and that's without even having the other duties attached. Full load for a nurse today is 8 patients. Even a nurse's aid which may be more equivalent to the nurse's in 1887, cannot take care of 50 patients. I think maybe their tops, which would be in a nursing home environment, would be 20 patients. So, as Henry Woods points out, you are getting paid for worth of the position and NOT for the worth or quantity of the work being done.

Hello and GOD bless. The answer to that one is no. I have been a nurse for 13 years now and the longer I am one, the more responsibilities they give me, without the raise.