[ggekko]

Supply and demand determine prices. Librarians are among the most chronically unhappy and cranky professional group I have ever encountered. The reason is that while librarians are highly educated and have mastered some arcane skills there is little demand for their services and they therefore tend to be very poorly paid.

Baseball players, by contrast, have skills that are extremely rare and are in high demand. Very few men can hit a major league curveball. In the total scheme of things it is a trivial skill but it is nevertheless very rare.

[Badray]

1] How difficult is your skill to learn?

2] How easily can you be replaced?

3] Is there a demand for it?

Do you think that the librarians (with all that education) ever stopped to realize that they weren't going to be highly paid?