I think it's unfair to compare their choice of prioritizing their children with how most parents juggling between works and parenting. They are not "most parents" with 9 to 5 jobs, the Waleses are one of fotunate few who have the privilege not to have to be worried about money/work and I won't judge them for using that privilege. Because, I'm sure if they're able, those "most parents" would also choose to spend more time with their children and bringing them to holiday often.
As for the engagement league table to measure work, in a way I can relate with them. So I once worked as Field Engineer for an oil&gas service company. Obviously it's significantly different than the typical 9 to 5 job or what people called as "normal job". For one, I worked odd hours and there's a couple of time where I needed police escort to work. I experienced what we call 8-3 "rotation" (instead of just shift) meaning for 8 weeks working I got 3 weeks paid leave so I had the ability for a full 3 week holiday every two months while making almost ten times money compare to some of my friends who work "normal job" with only 30 days paid leave per year (Looking back, now I'm feeling like a royal
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Back to the league table stuff. For the job itself, there's some which I considered as "routine job", meaning standard service, shallow well, and the location was close so typically one job could be completed in a one or two days. There's also "high profile job" which more complex from the type of services we run, the well condition, and all other stuff surrounding it which also meant longer preparation time. In summary in those 8 weeks "working", engineer A could spend 36 days at wellsite for 15 routine jobs while engineer B "only" spend 10 days at wellsite for 1 high profile job. Looking only at the number, it looks like engineer B is lazy compare to engineer A. The thing is, only high performer engineer would be assigned to those high profile job and it bring more revenue (and bigger job bonus) than those routine job, but so just to appear as "hard worker" with high number of jobs should the engineer decline the high profile job assigned and only go to routine one? Anyway, those "number" was one of the reason why we lost so many brilliant engineer during the 2014-15 O&G mass layoff. There's a target of the number of personnel to be let go so there's less time for the decision makers to check why engineer B did significantly less jobs than A, they only see 15 jobs -- 36 days vs 1 job -- 10 days so engineer B was let go. In reality there's more factors and I simplify it, but you get the gits.
While agree that William and Catherine can do more, I will argue that we don't have enough information on what they're actually doing or not doing to label them as workshy or lazy. As for whether their current approach of being working royal is good or bad, I'm not British nor living in the UK, so I can only judge from their popularity in the poll and seems like most Brits (which I doubt all of those responders were royal watchers) don't have problem with their numbers. If it's about vanity, I think Sophie is prettier than Catherine and can pass as C's older sister. Plus with her being working royal longer and high number of engagements, logically shouldn't she be more known and more popular? Looking at the Yougov poll (since they start including her), I honestly thought she should have higher number in the poll.
As for the engagement league table to measure work, in a way I can relate with them. So I once worked as Field Engineer for an oil&gas service company. Obviously it's significantly different than the typical 9 to 5 job or what people called as "normal job". For one, I worked odd hours and there's a couple of time where I needed police escort to work. I experienced what we call 8-3 "rotation" (instead of just shift) meaning for 8 weeks working I got 3 weeks paid leave so I had the ability for a full 3 week holiday every two months while making almost ten times money compare to some of my friends who work "normal job" with only 30 days paid leave per year (Looking back, now I'm feeling like a royal
).Back to the league table stuff. For the job itself, there's some which I considered as "routine job", meaning standard service, shallow well, and the location was close so typically one job could be completed in a one or two days. There's also "high profile job" which more complex from the type of services we run, the well condition, and all other stuff surrounding it which also meant longer preparation time. In summary in those 8 weeks "working", engineer A could spend 36 days at wellsite for 15 routine jobs while engineer B "only" spend 10 days at wellsite for 1 high profile job. Looking only at the number, it looks like engineer B is lazy compare to engineer A. The thing is, only high performer engineer would be assigned to those high profile job and it bring more revenue (and bigger job bonus) than those routine job, but so just to appear as "hard worker" with high number of jobs should the engineer decline the high profile job assigned and only go to routine one? Anyway, those "number" was one of the reason why we lost so many brilliant engineer during the 2014-15 O&G mass layoff. There's a target of the number of personnel to be let go so there's less time for the decision makers to check why engineer B did significantly less jobs than A, they only see 15 jobs -- 36 days vs 1 job -- 10 days so engineer B was let go. In reality there's more factors and I simplify it, but you get the gits.
While agree that William and Catherine can do more, I will argue that we don't have enough information on what they're actually doing or not doing to label them as workshy or lazy. As for whether their current approach of being working royal is good or bad, I'm not British nor living in the UK, so I can only judge from their popularity in the poll and seems like most Brits (which I doubt all of those responders were royal watchers) don't have problem with their numbers. If it's about vanity, I think Sophie is prettier than Catherine and can pass as C's older sister. Plus with her being working royal longer and high number of engagements, logically shouldn't she be more known and more popular? Looking at the Yougov poll (since they start including her), I honestly thought she should have higher number in the poll.
