'Models shouldn't be paid as much as they are'

I put up with this shit quite a bit as a model - it's bullshit. And here's why.

1. Models model for, oh, 10 years? You don't get 'better with age' - models aren't cheese. They're christmas trees - oh so wonderful for a very short period of time, and then tossed out, lying at the side of the road with decorations still on  (points if you get the reference). There is no career progression here.
2. Models are freelancers - freelancers get paid more than people who have a steady 9-5 job in every industry. Why? Well, we don't get paid for the time we're travelling (unless you manage to negotiate it) and it involves a lot of travel, you don't get paid for the time spent emailing, booking jobs, bullshitting with time wasters. In fact, you probably won't get paid at all for about 60% of the work that you do. Why? It's not modeling. It's all the groundwork - the marketing, the planning, the placating, the customer service, the preparation. If you break down the amount that a model gets paid into actual hours, it's not much more than your average secretary or office worker. I'd say that you easily spend 3 hours unpaid (doing all the admin etc.) to every hour of shooting.
3. Most jobs don't involve being naked. 
4. Most jobs don't involve contorting yourself into incredibly uncomfortable positions and lying, scantily clad, on a concrete floor while someone fiddles with lights - it's a hard job. Anybody that says otherwise will get kicked in the shins. 
5. Modeling doesn't require qualifications, no, but on the net you definitely need to put in your time to get the experience to do it. 
6. Finally: fuck off, it's what the market has decided we're worth. Don't like it, get a blow up doll from Primark and take pics of it.