Now I am not interested in chasing the big dollar or champagne lifestyle but equally it would be fun to not have to worry about how to pay for the next bill or what happens if….

Like many an income of £15k-£30k a year seems to be about the lot and yes with more responsibility one should receive a reflective income. That all sounds well and good. Fair? Yes; and just.

So where do these growing numbers of our society think that being paid £500k a year or more is morally right and honourable? A vast amount waste their incomes on expensive tat and useless things that quite frankly would be better off unsold. Some may give to charity but a large percentage of that is syphonned off by the overpaid bosses who run them.

Surely it would be far better to lower their salaries and free up resources so the plebs could see a fairer remuneration? I find it downright disgusting to think that over my whole working life the massed funds that I receive will not even amount to a days pay for some. Bill Gates for example receives and estimated £7 million a day in interest and returns on his vast fortune. Yes a day!! For most of us a mornings work at this level would be sufficient to retire on let alone a year.

Is he worth that? Who knows but someone must do.

University bosses being paid half a million a year which equates to more than ten times what the teachers and tutors receive is an utter insult and no wonder tuition fees are so high.

But my guess is that these high-profile jobs and positions of power come with a hefty price-tag where lives are forfeit due to being on call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Most of us are lucky enough to get up, trawl off to work, play at a job and then return home after eight or nine hours. The humdrum can normally be put aside for some sort of home-life.

Still it does irk to imagine those who are in the right place at the right time can justify their greed.

However, I am not jealous and I can be happy in the knowledge that I earn every penny of my wage and can sleep an honest and easy-conscience eight hour night.