Why are surgeons paid more than brick layers?

[Dragonfli]

153. Most that try it lack either the talent (it takes the talent of an artist you know) or the physical

stamina. You have not spent much time trying to learn a skilled trade have you? You appear to think a monkey could do it. Actually it requires a great deal of knowledge as well as talent (not a common quality), in a medium that is quite heavy and sharp.

I myself am a cabinet maker and I bet you lack the talent and knowledge required to build a gothic fireplace from nothing but rough kiln dried hardwood a shaper and a saw. I can do that (I love pointed architecture as well so would have a ball with the design).

I spent ten years on rough and finish carpentry at Victorian restoration companies and then switched trades to cabinet maker for another 5 so that I could build furniture, mantels and high end custom built-ins.

Before that as a youth I spent 10 years learning the painting and plastering trades (drywall as well, it is sort of the kindergarten of plastering) These trades also require talent and it is hard to find anyone talented enough to train.

I believe the surgeons trade is a skilled trade requiring talent and a great deal of knowledge if one wishes to be good at it, but an artist so talented that he can build a cathedral is harder to find than a surgeon. Talent is not the dime a dozen resource you think it is nor are the trades a place for idiots to learn to push dirt back and forth as you also appear to believe.