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Alex Wahl What’s on my Mind

So lately I have been thinking about something realizing just how wrong it is. One of those things is the salary of professional athletes. Professional athletes get paid millions of dollars every year for something they should simply be doing for the love of the game. These high salaries lead to outrageous prices for tickets, parking, jerseys, and food inside the stadium. I find it completely ridiculous. Another thing that bothers me about this is that the jobs really aren’t that important to society. Life could go on with out professional sports being televised each weekend. The high salaries these athletes receive also leads to labor strikes and lockouts. I was talking about professional football specifically with my dad the other day. A lot of these players are constantly getting in trouble during the off-season and with out their money and fame a decent percentage would probably be criminals and in jail. The people who I think deserve these salaries are the people who do the jobs that benefit society the most. Some of these jobs being teachers, doctors, and soldiers; without these people our country wouldn’t be able to function. Another example of an overpaid profession is Actors and actresses. All they do is memorize lines for film, why is there a need to pay them that much money. I am sure there are people out there even actors and actresses now who would do the job for much less. Also CEO’s annoy me. Yes some of them came up with the company all on their own, but most of them do no work what so ever, they just sit there. Other people make all the decisions for the company. Instead of taking home a 40 million dollar salary plus stock options and million dollar bonuses they should receive maybe 10 million dollars and give some of the money back to the rest of the people which the company could not run with out. Another thing that’s on my mind but it completely unrelated is New Years Resolutions. This year my New Year’s resolution is to be completely honest with everyone all the time. Lies only lead to more lies and they lead to trouble. I feel like always being honest is a good characteristic and is a resolution that is relatively possible to follow through with. Going back to things that annoy me is people who say they have a resolution and then don’t even try to fulfill it. Like why even make a resolution in the first place if you won’t even try to follow through with it. To be honest I was going to wait to do this because school got cancelled, but I wrote it because my mom made me. As you can see I am already following through with my resolution.