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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 9222756" data-attributes="member: 15582">Brutal truth. It's not for nothing, it's for far less than what they are making. Because:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Everyone feels that their job is the hardest one in the department and anyone getting paid close to their compensation for "just" graphic design or "just" art, or "just" writing.*</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For very small companies it can be humbling for the owner to learn their personal take home is less than someone they are using as consultant</li> </ul>But yeah, more than once I heard someone be shocked that I paid $20/hr for writing ad copy. But that well dried up and now I am nurse (and do you honestly want an MBA poking you with a needle?)*And that's a whole mess of passive aggressive attitudes. Like  an MBA  seeing someone who "only" got an undergrad could command more cash or even just the idea that someone is getting paid to do a job they have a passion vs mentally punching in every day. There's also the whole vibe that "life is not fair," but that's okay because you put in the work and were savvy enough to end up where you ended up. Anyone else was just poor planners/lazy -- until that you learn that "just a writer" can make as much as you.</blockquote>