When I work, I get really well paid. I'm very lucky that my job when I do it, is highly lucrative.
But unless I'm a really different kind of beast, the parallel I'm presenting is about average I think.
I love my job, because the work is nearly always interesting, very challenging, frequently yields great results, and is hugely enjoyable, which kind of makes it 'money for old rope' sort of thing.
But just occasionally instead of the interesting, challenging stuff, I get asked to deliver shitty programmes like, 'Accurate Minute Taking' or Business Report Writing' and stuff like that.
I find it really hard to get motivated to deliver those boring types of programmes. I really do. I prepare just the same, it just doesn't light me up, it's really hard to generate the slightest bit of any fucking enthusiasm at all.
The fact that someone is going to pay me between €450 and €600 a day for it, makes not the slightest bit of difference. Not one bit of difference.
I'll be professional, I'll get it done, and the feedback and evaluations are usually very good, but it's such a fucking grind.
So it kind of winds me up when a remark like, "“Personal motivational is the hardest,” said the forward. “Especially in League One, I found that difficult", reported in whatever context, that so many intelligent people fly off and say stuff like, 'Fuck him if he can't get motivated on £42,000 a week' or variances of that etc etc.
Just what the fuck does it matter how much he gets paid?
If the work is a grind, getting well paid for it, doesn't make it any less of a grind!
At no time has he ever slagged off the club, come to work drunk, or any of that other shit that marked out the others, he's just had that one remark pounced on and has been vilified to the highest level for it.
Jackett, apparently our saviour and prophet, has said, 'his attitude in training has been exemplary, he's got his head down and done everything I've asked of him', but there still seems to be guys on here who choose to ignore on this occasion our wise old man at the helm and whilst not attending any practice or training sessions seem to have the inside track on Jackett and for £42,000 a week - a contract offered to him when times were completely different - still think he's stealing a living.
In the mad and completely out of step world that football is, when players can 'earn' £250,000 a week, and probably a lot more in the months to come, this is a truly offensive line if I've ever seen one.
I do agree that McCarthy probably broke Doyle, and that the last year or so he wasn't anywhere near where he could be, but, he's kept his head down, seemingly come from the dead group, trained hard enough, displayed whatever character he has done to impress Jackett enough to put him on the bench and even put him on for game time, tells me I'm to be more impressed by Jackett and Doyle than some guys on here.
