[Robert Teesdale]

Boom! And there you have reality in a nutshell. I tell my kids this all the time. "It's not about how special or pretty or deserving you are. It is about how much value you offer to the market.

"If you want to live well, offer more value. Work for what you want and you get to own what you desire." Or as I tell senior management at work... NMFWRE. Not Magically Fixable - Will Require Effort

[RC2]

Exactly correct. Every job has a value to a company, regardless of what an employee feels he/she is worth. It’s important to people to understand what that value is. If they don’t like what the company determines that value is, go some place else.