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Re: Outsourcing legal work to India?
Posted by JF on 3/07/06

    No, teaching and police are paid very well, and have great benefits. A
    typical teacher can make $50,000.00 a year with health insurance, a
    pension, and about four months off a year, not to mention employment
    security. The Boston Globe this past week had a story about how many
    cops make more than $200,000.00 a year with overtime (and many, many
    make more than $100,000.00), plus they receive great pensions and
    insurance. And these two professions command huge respect, to the
    point of arrogance (police are nowhere near the top of the most
    dangerous professions). They also have a relatively low barrier to
    entry. That is why these jobs are so difficult to obtain - not because
    they're so difficult that nobody wants to do them, but because they're
    so desirable that so many people want to do them.

    I would agree about the nursing situation, and I don't know enough
    about firefighters' situation to comment.

    On 3/06/06, Carol wrote:
    >
    >> Blue,
    >>
    >> part of the problem is that americans don't like nursing,
    >> teaching, etc. and the hospitals and schools are desperate to fill
    >> the demand.
    >>
    >
    > Just for the record, nursing is an honorable profession, and it
    > takes a very special person to do it, whether foreign or domestic.
    > One of the reasons that peopel do not go into nursing here is that
    > it is considered a "feminine" occupation, same as teaching. As such
    > neither pay very well despite the notion that nurses get rich. I
    > speak from experience. Also, the profession is not nearly as
    > respected or well thought of as other professions. And nursing is
    > physically demanding, dirty, dangerous work. nurses, like
    > firefighters, police and other protectors of the public work off-
    > shifts, holidays, and every other weekend. They all sacrifice
    > family time and risk their health and sometimes lives for strangers
    > for not a whole lot in the way monetary compensation and very little
    > in the way of respect. Is it any wonder that there are not more
    > people going into nursing? Ok, done with my rant now. What was the
    > legal question again? Yeah, there's a lot of bankrupt nurses
    > too. :)

     
     

 
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