how much are you worth?

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If you had to put a price on your head, how much would it be? We all have skills. I'm skilled at hiding from people in the supermarket and using public transport, as well as more important stuff, like baking bread {out of a packet}. Many of us have jobs which require a particular skill set, perhaps needing a qualification or two to prove our competence in our chosen career. Nurses have to deal with icky things like poo and vomit, blood and ingrown toenails. Doctors have to study for years and then get to play God. Teachers spend 363 days a year either preparing for lessons, planning lessons, talking to parents, creating resources, continuing their professional development to keep them on the ball, and they do that little inconsequential activity of teaching children who often don't care. Policemen often have to make split second decisions which could alter someone's life for ever. The vets save our animals. The hairdressers make our hair look pretty. The farmer provides us with meat, milk and marvellous vegetables so that we can eat. And the footballer {soccer to y'all American people} ... what does he do? He kicks a ball around, for about an hour and a half. Sometimes it goes into the net and the crowd goes wild. Other times, the footballer will roll on the floor pretending he's got a bad knee, or he'll accuse another player of something untoward. Some weeks he doesn't even play! But he still gets paid, for sitting there. Looking pretty. The footballer is worth £89 million. To buy. Instead of buying a footballer, what could Manchester United actually DO with £89 million? But maybe the question should surely be, what CAN'T they do with £89 million? Because there's not a lot they can't do, but an awful lot they can do. It's just ridiculous that someone is worth so much to somebody else, for being able to do something which can't save a life, won't cure cancer, won't end famine, can't teach the next generation how to do sums and spell proper and only entertains a teeny percentage of the world's population. I wish I was worth £89 million to someone.