Quotes About Underpaid

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

The real problem is that workers are not so much underpaid as they are under-skilled. And the real task is to help those people become skilled. Congress cannot do this simply by declaring that as of such-and-such a date, everybody's productive output is now worth $7.25 per hour. This makes about as much sense, and does just about as much harm, as doctors "curing" patients simply by declaring that they are cured.

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

We cannot expect systemic success when our teachers are underpaid and under-resourced, or when they split time being caretakers and counselors for our children as well.

Loyalty was vastly overrated and woefully underpaid.

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Chinese laborers "finish" smartphones by wiping off any fingerprints with a highly toxic solvent proven to shorten the workers lives. That's how valuable it is for consumers to believe their devices have been assembled by magic rather than by the fingers of underpaid and poisoned children.

Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.

I was only pretending to be the underpaid, duplicitous, ineffective, struggling teacher of immigrant French. The real Suzanne was the lover and muse of a brilliant artist.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

West Indian Test cricketers are among the top world cricketers in terms of pay and remuneration. They are not underpaid. They are easily in the elite of Caribbean skilled workers, earning millions of dollars after, let's say, a five-year period of regional representation.

I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.

No CEO in the world, therefore, is so delusional as to expect his employees to show up every day and work hard for no money. But there is one gigantic workforce asked to do exactly that. In the United States alone, they number nearly 60 million. Who is this massive, underpaid throng? Schoolchildren.

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.

Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.

My young friend, why to poetry aspire? Don't court the muses, but adopt a trade, For literature is sadly underpaid.

are supposedly underpaid because of their emotional reward from serving society.

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

We're way underpaid as race car drivers.