Re: I can now add TV star to my resume

Jay Vance wrote:
> My point of view is that it is our critical-thinking
> skills that make us worth what we make. I personally believe it is
> precisely because we have not publicized that aspect of what we do
> that our contributions in that area are totally ignored and
> disregarded > when the numbers are being crunched.


Well, that and the fact that some people are spearheading the way to get newbies to work for 2-4 cpl, helping to train and certify overseas MTs at a fraction of what it costs us, and making corporate deals for technology that will essentially turn MTs into editors, making a fraction of our already-low wages. . . When even the organization that was supposedly the MTs' representative decides they can't mastermind how to do that job and opts to grasp for whatever will replenish their coffers instead, trying to advocate for quality and respect for MTs is like fighting a riptide.

When 9/11 hit the computer geek biz so hard, tons of businesses realized that instead of paying expert designers to create cutting edge web design they could use some crappy generator (Front Page is NOT web design, people!) to cobble together a working site, and the majority seem content now with amateur crap because it is so much cheaper.

This is what I see happening with MT--now that some people have provided a means to get the same work done at a fraction of the price, it's become more important to them to keep inflating that bottom line. We're not making the money that made this a good career option even 5-10 years ago, so fewer people are willing to work this hard to get into it. Not so, the overseas workers or those SAHMs who are only willing to get training through El Cheapo's Lick And A Promise Crappy School of MT.

Yeah, the quality isn't there, but *it's so much cheaper!*

I don't understand how you can work both sides of the issue, frankly. Meclizine, maybe?
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