janitor vs. journalist

I had a job when I was young, just riding a tractor mower and cutting grass on big fields. Didn't pay much, and I wanted to get out of there and do something important.

I've been in newspapers for half my life now, doing something important, I guess, but the thrill is gone and we can't do it right anymore anyway.

These days I'm hoping to ride that tractor mower again.
Cut that grass the way grass is supposed to be cut.

 

I wasn't making much more than that when I left my last stop in early February. And I was there for seven years.

 

my father, who worked for the state and didn't own a college degree, made $22 an hour back in 1981.

why should $16 an hour make any of us all that pleased?

 

Can't say it pleases me, but I make less than that.

 

It's an outrage that a custodian engineer (janitor) makes more than a college educated scribe.

 

How do you know the janitor isn't college educated?

 

I don't think being based on economic and being outrageous are mutually exclusive.

 

How do you know that he is college educated?

 

Um, your assumption, implicit in you statement, is that the janitor isn't. Otherwise, why would you refer to a "college educated scribe".

 

You assumed. I didn't.
And what difference does it make? The bottom line is that a janitor makes more than a journalist. That to me is an outrage and I'm speaking as a journalist.

 

Why is it an outrage? I don't understand.