Clean Up Your Sales — DeWese

She adds, “The ugly truth, according to economics professors Daniel Hamermesh of the University of Texas and Jeff Biddle of Michigan State University, is that plain people earn 5 to 10 percent less than people of average looks who, in turn, earn 3 to 8 percent less than those deemed good looking.”

Whew! It’s a good thing that I’m not on salary working for a big company. Doctors have never liked me and tend to get abusive about my weight. I have never been a criminal, but the security people at Disney World x-ray me until I glow and I once got an $85 parking ticket. My teachers never liked me and, from kindergarten all the way through my Master’s degree, I had to clean the erasers and bring the teachers lunch.