Letter to the Editor

Last month, my six-word bio was published--today, my 100-word letter to the editor was in the paper:

A letter in the Feb. 3 Chicago Sun-Times equates financial success with hard work, and lack of such success to "loafing."

Sometimes, maybe--but financial success is also tied to choice of career. A prime example is day care. Day care teachers typically earn pitifully low salaries, often barely above minimum wage--but what job can be more important--or demanding--than nurturing young children?

Teachers in Catholic elementary schools work very hard but do not have the highest of salaries; neither do employees of nonprofit social service agencies.

These professionals are far from lazy. Success--and one's value to the world--is not just measured by income level.