From what I've seen, a lot of New Jersey Transit engineers feel like they're being underpaid for how tough their job actually is. The union says the engineers want to bump their average salary up to $170,000, but NJ Transit says they're already getting about $135,000 a year right now. To me, that sounds like a lot, but then again, those guys work some weird hours and have a ton of responsibility. Can you imagine being the person in charge of getting thousands of people back and forth to New York every day? That's a lot of pressure.

Is it worth all this mess for everyone? Well, 350,000 people didn't get to work today because of this, so that's huge. My uncle, who rides the train into the city every morning, had to drive today and he said traffic was just nuts. A strike like this messes with businesses too, 'cause tons of workers can’t even make it in. I get why the engineers are standing up for themselves, but I wish there was a way to settle things without shutting everything down. It does make you wonder who ends up paying for all this in the end—probably the taxpayers and commuters, honestly.