re: Blue collar guys and gas stations?

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I'm not hating on people in the trades, but this discussion is why the "you can own your own business in the trades" arguments are failures.

A very, very small % of people in the trades have the intellectual capacity, temperament, and discipline to operate a successful trades company.

Most of those people in that small population probably would have been better off going to college and using those traits in a more lucrative business field.

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but the OT thinks everyone should own their own business and nobody hates statistics more than the "white collar" OT poster who wants his kids to go into the trades

not sure why you are being downvoted

oh and babytac is still the worst poster on the OT

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Sitting here at the pump and observing them throw money away. Most aren’t even getting gas…just an overpriced soft drink and honey bun. What gives plant bros?

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Jealous they make way more than you do? Maybe spend more time working your mall kiosk shift (you might make shift manager someday) and less time worrying about the financial decisions of your betters.

Lol..You taxpayers paid for both my degrees.

That's working smart, not hard.

Thank you, btw. :))

plant boi here. I'm up and out the house for 4:30AM and at work by 5:30AM. 12 hour shifts + whatever the hell else i need to get done. Nothing besides gas stations are open. you want a hot breakfast or cold monster? either do it at home or get it at the gas station. No other options.

Keep changing those goalposts.

I'd be butthurt as well. ;))

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Lol..You taxpayers paid for both my degrees

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Baw, you didn't get degrees from the local Vo-Tech. Why lie like that?

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It’s quicker, cheaper, and healthier to pop into HEB and grab something

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Are HEBs (grocery stores) open at 5:30-6 am? And are they are damn near every corner like a gas station?

So quicker is definitely not the word I'd use there. So not as quick or convenient would probably be the main reason they stop at gas stations.

I'm not sure about texas, but Louisiana and mississippi have some very good gas station breakfast.

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Vo-tech?

No, I didn't attend LSU

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Trust me. We know.

I like to hang out in the stalls and listen to them take their morning shite

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very small % of people in the trades have the intellectual capacity, temperament, and discipline to operate a successful trades company.

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Most of those people in that small population probably would have been better off going to college

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Assuming your assumptions are correct, why would they be better off with a college degree? If they have the intellectual capacity, temperament, and discipline to operate a successful trades company, they are running their own business, and more than likely making a shite ton of money without having college debt while their competitors (according to your assumption) are lazy mental midgets?

And before we continue with the stereotyping, Ive got the pretty little 4 yr degree diploma framed on my wall and Im thankful for it. I also busted my arse every summer as a bottom of the totem pole kid working construction on turnarounds in chemical plants for the 5 years it took me to earn the money necessary to pay for said diploma. While I have awesome memories, and likely expanded my intellectual capacity
while at LSU, the summers in those plants is where I learned the temperament and discipline to run a successful residential construction company. This after wearing suit and tie and white collared shirt for 15 years

I realize everyone's path is different, and this is only one mans opinion, but I feel if a lot more people who have a white collar career had spent some time in jobs getting their hands dirty, it would likely make them a better lawyer, doctor, bond trader, etc.