Originally Posted by grumpyscot:
“None!”
Yup, I'm also struggling here.
Awarding anyone for just carrying out their chosen profession or career is a nonsense to me. I'm tempted to make an exception for sportsman whom proudly represent our country on the world stage, but then I ask was that their motivation? Or were they just chasing the $$$$ and some sweet sponsorship deals.
It's the way they justify it that gets me, the usual "for services to the XYZ industry". We could say that about anyone. I'd like to award every shop worker in this country an OBE for services to the retail industry and every bus, train and truck driver for services to the transportation industry. But no, seemingly only the few who had their 15 minutes of fame and have connections to the old boys network seem to be the lucky ones.