My second job followed a common progression – I was promoted due to maintaining great individual performance while most of my teammates quit. This meant for a while I was being paid new money to do my old job, but gradually as my workload increased I learned why everyone else had quit.
This raises a weird question – was there a specific day, or perhaps even hour, where I was being paid exactly the right amount? Was it possible that on some day during my tenure, let’s just pick a day at random and say August 23, was it possible that I woke up overpaid and came home underpaid? Technically, mathematically, physically it must be true, in order to get from one side of a border to the other you have to have at least a moment ON the border.
It’s kind of like how my high school basketball coach used to insist that we ‘jump AND hang’, though of course our point guard, destined for the Ivy League, would always note that in physics you could either accelerate or decelerate, but unless you were completely still you could never visibly hang. I remember the compromise being reaching just a little higher with your arms as you started coming down to create the illusion of hanging. I wonder if those two have given further thought to this over the past fifteen years.
