Here is a story,first time I came to know by Osho, presently copied from Mr.Gurunarayn Rao's contribution (With thanx).
On his first day in office, as President Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address speech, one man stood up. He was a rich aristocrat. He said, “Mr. Lincoln, You should not forget that Your father used to make shoes for my family.” And the whole senate laughed. They thought they had made a fool of Lincoln.
But certain people are made of a totally different mettle.
Lincoln looked at the man directly in the eye and said, “Sir, i know that my father used to make shoes for Your family, and there will be many others here, because he made shoes the way nobody else can. He was a creator. His shoes were not just shoes; he poured his whole soul into them.
I want to ask You, have You got any complaint? Because I know how to make shoes myself. If You have any complaint i can make You another pair of shoes.
But as far as i know, nobody has ever complained about my father’s shoes. He was a genius, a great creator and i am proud of my father”.
The whole senate was struck dumb. They could not understand what kind of man Abraham Lincoln was.
He was proud because his father did his job so well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard.
Mine query is why a master shoe maker,gutter cleaner,Garbage cleaner is paid so meager as compared to a good technician,lawyers or doctor etc.?
Of course, every body is not a good technician,lawyer or doctor but it is also true that every body can not/would never be ready to do the work of garbage cleaning,gutter clearing,shoe making etc.
And to be good at such works is not something wonderful ?
If yes,why pay them so low and why pay just white collar jobs so high ?
