What is your book editor's CV worth?

I am looking for a job, a normal job. A job where I can plan my own
work, where I can see my son, and daughter and my wife most of the
year. A job where ... I am looking for a job. I am a trained book
editor but have worked with magazines and now working with a newspaper. And it sucks.
So, in the spirit of job seeking and resume upgrading, I came across this post, off tompeters.com, http://www.blueprint4resumes.com/2009/04/whats-your-resume-worth.html
Here: (Sorry the figures are all in dollars - but you could as well replace them with shillings)

What’s your resume worth?

About $250,000 - $550,000 if you land a Chief Operation Officer (COO) position.
About $100,000 - $150,000 if you land a Retail Regional Manager position.
About $75,000 - $125,000 if you land an IT Manager position.
About $65,000 - $85,000 if you land a Technical Writer position.
About $45,000 - $65,000 if you land a Cost Accountant position.
About $35,000 - $55,000 if you land an Elementary School Teacher position.
About $25,000 - $45,000 if you land an Assistant Restaurant Manager position.
About $22,000 - $32,000 if you land a Receptionist position.
About $17,000 - $27,000 if you land a Retail Sales Clerk position.
About $17,000 - $22,000 if you land a Fast Food Cashier position.
About $3,000 to $18,000 if you are looking to go part-time for the majority of retail positions.
About $8 if you count the cost of resume quality paper, folder, envelope, a
few squirts of ink toner to print it, and then… you never mail it.
About two cents if you print it on copy machine paper (but you wouldn’t do that… would you?).
About .008 cents for the amount of electricity spent to e-mail your resume to a potential employer.
Zero (that’s Z – E – R – O!) if you never send it out.

What’s your resume worth? Do I need to explain this?

The above writing sent me thinking about the plight of book editors in the unfortunate event that they are fired, or, as our HR boss gleefully puts it, 'separated.'
I should correct the above paragraph to read: A conversation I had over the weekend with my mentor and relative, Mr O, sent me thinking about life after early loss of paid employment for book editors. Mr O is a published school books writer with 10 books to his name.
Anyway, he was telling me about his former editor, Mr K, who was edged out of a job in a prominent publishing firm in the country. Though he told Mr O that he had opted for early retirement, it was obvious he had been 'separated' for he was looking for a job, a teaching job.
He tried to talk Mr O into publishing a revision book with him, never mind that Mr O already had a revision book under his name and published with Mr K's former employer. They were to meet for Mr K to sell his proposal to Mr O. Somehow, Mr K didn't show up; he sent a text to say he was away in the farm so would get back to Mr O. Three weeks later, he hasn't.
Before he was edged out, Mr K, an outstanding editor, was earning over Ksh100,000 a month. As a an editor out of employment, Mr K could start his own publishing firm, do consultancy, seek for a job in another firm, take up teaching or move out of editing and publishing altogether.
Employment in another firm, unless at a higher level, was out of question. His employer is the best paying slave-driving firm in publishing; no other employer can afford to pay him the salary he was getting at that level.
For Mr K, his area of specialisation was such that he could not leave on consultancy, unless all the editors in that field all died and he had to edit the various firms' books one after the other.
He could as well go into self publishing: With the severance pay, get a few teachers, compile a revision book or student companion of sorts, publish it and market it like crazy. I will say nothing of his setting up a publishing firm but he could take up teaching. considering he is trained as a teacher.
All those options aside, the fact that as an editor of certain subjects, once you are fired you are as good as dead, professionally, should worry those in the field. Should they think of a career away from editing and publishing - have a solid career elsewhere and only dabble in publishing and editing as a side job? Maybe publishing firms should consider hiring such editors on short contracts so that from the word go they learn to fend for themselves or better still, remunerate them handsomely.
Those feeble suggestions aside, if you are a book editor in Kenya and employed by one of the numerous publishing houses: What would happen if your employer retrenched you tomorrow, next week, next month or next year? What would you do to sustain your family? Think about it, now. Then act. So, what is your CV worth?