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When did society start looking down on blue collar jobs?
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:15 am
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:15 am
Since I was a child, society has been telling me that I needed to do good in school so I could go to college and get a degree to ensure a good-paying job. The idea of being a plumber, electrician, mechanic, or any other "low-skilled" job was anathema to the American education system. And yet these blue collar jobs, at least in my estimation, are some of the most important in the country. They keep us up and running. And yet we were told that those were jobs we didn't want. It was so much more appealing to work in a cubicle making six figures. Now that I work in a cubicle and make pretty decent money, I think I'd have rather done the "low skilled" job because my current career path is very technical and very boring.
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Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:16 am to RollTide1987
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When did society start looking down on blue collar jobs?
they don't
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:17 am to RollTide1987
How can society look down on us blue collars when our f250s tower above yalls little white collar Priuses?
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:17 am to RollTide1987
No those jobs are great for those who can't afford to go to college. But I'm assuming your parents could afford to send you there so why but your arse working an electrician's job when you can work in an office and make the same or more.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:17 am to RollTide1987
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When did society start looking down on blue collar jobs?
since, never?
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:18 am to RollTide1987
I agree that we shouldn't push everyone to college and white collar jobs. Some people would make a good auto mechanic but not a great accountant. There's nothing wrong with that.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:18 am to RollTide1987
When we started paying other countries’ poor people to make things for us.
Basically anything done with your hands was “less than” at that point. The pandemic shortages hopefully taught us what a mistake that was.
Basically anything done with your hands was “less than” at that point. The pandemic shortages hopefully taught us what a mistake that was.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:18 am to RollTide1987
The only folks I know who look down on blue collar jobs are ones that would be absolutely hopeless when it comes to blue collar work.
You know the type. They think their gender studies degree makes them better than the plumber...until all the used condoms they flushed back the toilet up.
You know the type. They think their gender studies degree makes them better than the plumber...until all the used condoms they flushed back the toilet up.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:18 am to RollTide1987
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And yet we were told that those were jobs we didn't want.
I was never told that.
ETA: there are trade offs. You can make great money with trades but you're usually battling the elements and working long hours. Hell, every welder at work has had at least 1 divorce. It can be tough on family. Money is nice but a lot of the craft guys I know making good money miss a lot of life to make it.
This post was edited on 1/16/23 at 8:43 am
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:19 am to RollTide1987
Blue collar jobs can be great money but we all have to honest about the nature of the work: the work is difficult, its generally low-paying, laborious, and destroys your body.
There's a reason you don't see many people 50+ in blue collar roles.
There's a reason you don't see many people 50+ in blue collar roles.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:19 am to RollTide1987
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Now that I work in a cubicle
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:20 am to poncho villa
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No those jobs are great for those who can't afford to go to college.
So 30-40 years ago?
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:22 am to RollTide1987
They don't like manual labor. Too much coddling got them boys soft.
But it is giving thise out there a great opportunity to make some cash that are still willing. Can easily run your own company.
But it is giving thise out there a great opportunity to make some cash that are still willing. Can easily run your own company.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:24 am to RollTide1987
Since the GI bill and the establishment of the Department of Education.
This post was edited on 1/16/23 at 8:26 am
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:24 am to RollTide1987
In my eyes, literally no difference between a software engineer and a guy operating a forklift. Either job could be held by ignorant morons and in my experience I have seen both roles with all ranges of personalities.
I came from a blue collar family but managed to get a white collar job but will never forgot my roots and what paid the bills for mom and dad
I came from a blue collar family but managed to get a white collar job but will never forgot my roots and what paid the bills for mom and dad
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:24 am to tiggerthetooth
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There's a reason you don't see many people 50+ in blue collar roles.
Most blue collar jobs start out as grunt work, but work into a crew management type position. Some people don't have the mental ability to move up to those positions.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:24 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:25 am to StupidBinder
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When we started paying other countries’ poor people to make things for us.
Basically anything done with your hands was “less than” at that point. The pandemic shortages hopefully taught us what a mistake that was.
At a fraction of the cost****
Ask hedge fund managers, who are worth billions, if they thought it was a mistake to out source. Ask the Walton family if they thought outsourcing a mistake for their bottom lines. Ask anyone who made money from the stock market if they thought outsourcing was a mistake.
What it did do is create a massive gap in society, rendering many Americans unable to maintain their living standards by simple professions. You had to become a hyper-specialist to make it in the new economy.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:27 am to poncho villa
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No those jobs are great for those who can't afford to go to college. But I'm assuming your parents could afford to send you there so why but your arse working an electrician's job when you can work in an office and make the same or more.
The best bricklayer I know has a chemical engineering degree.
Quality of life people.
Posted on 1/16/23 at 8:27 am to RollTide1987
Nothing at all wrong with blue collar jobs. Turnaround work and operations in the plants do way better than alot of four year bachelor degree careers.
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