Posted By:
David Atkatz"I have a nephew who spent 5 years undergrad, 3 years in law school, 2 years clerking for a Federal Judge in DC, while getting his MBA at Georgetown.
He is currently an FBI agent and runs the risk of getting shot at, on any given day.
He is very happy in his chosen career. Should I tell him he needs to be pissed because some of his classmates make more?"
Not at all, Jim. (Got it right, that time.)
Again, not the point.
The point is that his higher-paid classmates are not automatically entitled to their higher pay simply because they work harder, or took chances, or created their own breaks.
They are fortunate that society values what they do more than it values what your highly educated, hard-working, and real risk taking nephew does.