I think I may be in the wrong line of business

We're getting estimates for work to be done on our house, and I just had some work done on my apartment to get it in nice condition to rent out.

For the apartment, I had a handyman do some basic repairs and painting, and I paid him $1400 for the whole job. It took him approximately 2 days to do everything (including running around for materials). Let's assume, very conservatively, that $500 was materials alone (which NO WAY it was) because that's what he asked for in order to get the job started. That means that if he worked two 10-hour days, he earned $45/hour for painting, repairing and cleaning.

Hell, I don't make $45/hour. And not to downgrade the effort it takes to paint, clean, repair, etc., but it doesn't take tremendous skill. Moderate skill, but not tremendous.

Law school, schmaw school. Pfff!

(Okay, I know... the reason why I'm willing to pay that money for him to do the work is because I don't want to do it, so it's not just a "skill factor" determining the price of the labor, there's an "effort factor" too. And that's more of what I'm paying for, the effort it took to get the job done.)