[arderkrag]

I disagree on a fundamental point. If I didn't think I was "better" than jobs I've had in the past, I never would have clawed my way forward. The knowledge that I'm worth more than minimum wage is exactly why I'm not stuck making minimum wage. It's what drove me to desire more, to take up the banner of our dear Ayn - that greed is good, that there is virtue behind selfishness. If I was stuck in the thought that I wasn't better than that first job tutoring, I would have never moved on.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

‘zackly !

[henkster]

I learned something from every job I’ve ever had. It doesn’t matter whether I held the job for a week or 18 years.

Kutcher is right. You’re not too good for a job.

[Durus]

The assertion was Ashton Kutcher's and it doesn't seem to have slowed him down much. Perhaps you missed his point. It's not about self worth. It's about valuing the job you have and doing it to the best of you abilities even if while looking for a new job.

[Bigg Red]

While I see your point, I think you are misunderstanding the argument that is being made here, viz., there are far too many people in this country who think that many jobs are somehow beneath them, that they don't need to start at the bottom and work their way up.

[shoedog]

I think you are way over thinking his response. His response is that any job is better than no job. You take the job you can get, work hard and look to step up to the next opportunity.

[SandwicheGuy]

If I was stuck in the thought that I wasn't better than that first job tutoring, I would have never moved on.

Upon reflection, you missed the point entirely. Of course you moved on, we all strive to do that, but the author was saying that he was not better than any job he had held. If you are to be believed, you were too good to tutor. That is not what the author said or meant. You take pride in your work, no matter what it is, and I'll just bet that you were a good tutor and took pride in that.

[gogeo]

Apples and space shuttles.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

My nephew built up an absolutely fearsome tutoring business while he was going to college, developed a $50K bank account, and darn near got himself into some tax trouble. He didn’t have a lick of free time, but he stuffed his bank account big time.

[Tammy8]

I see that as a different issue. I have never believed I was “too good” to do any kind of work. I have always believed in my ability to do more, to achieve more and have worked at that as well. Life has been good to me, but there is still nothing I think I am too good to do, I usually do it for my self these days and not for others.

When I think of someone that is “too good” to do some jobs, I think of people who did not have to work their way up and at the extreme some people seem to think they are too good to work at all.