Markymark - you have got me so wrong - I don't think that you have read many of my other posts on here and I am sure that many here will defend me. We too are a group of professional, trained people. I will not accept the argument that we are simply waiters/esses in the sky.
I am not moaning, I do not feel in the slightest woeful. As you rightly say, there are many who would want my job - but many that are not good enough. If I didn't enjoy my job, I would take myself, and my Bristol University First in Philosophy and Economics and work somewhere else. However, I do enjoy my job and will not have it run to the ground. Please be reminded that I DO NOT support a strike.