Do you look down on blue collar workers?

Nope I'm a tradie and probably earn more than you but I did pick a super hard trade (Shipwright). It's probably the most varied trade going. One day I'm working with timber, the next fibreglass, then I could be spray painting or plumbing the next.
I'm a yard manager now so I'm 50/50 between being in the office or still doing the work. Pretty good mix for me
 
Nope.
I treat a guy who snatches purses from old ladies the same as I treat a surgeon.
Because when you are a stranger, it is not my concern what you do for a living.
 
"blue collar" is a really broad term. Not all trades or positions are created equal. I might make jokes about meth head roofers or lazy shipyard workers, but there are also plenty of stand-up roofing crews and a few hard-working bubbas out there.

If you judge people for doing physical work, you're an idiot. There's a lot to be said for the sense of job satisfaction that comes from creating or repairing things. Also, skilled labor can be really profitable. I supervise linemen and they're all making over $100k/yr. Some work enough overtime to get around $150k.
 
I can remember guys laughing at our teachers in high school because once they got out, they would be working jobs that paid more than what the teacher made.

If a person can get a good white collar job, it won't be until their 40s-60s before catching up with the guys who get good blue collar jobs out of high school or votech
 
TeTe said:
Absolutely not. I used to be one for a few years working as an automotive technician before I went back to school.

In fact, we need more young people getting into the trades. How pathetic is it that they promote and educate inmates in state prisons to do these kind jobs but eliminate these programs in public high schools? There's a shortage of them. The job security is really good for these types of jobs too.
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Yup. It's a business to keep those inmates working for penny on the dollars. Those companies and the government allow that should be ashamed for taking jobs from law bidding citizens.
 
TidWell said:
I work a blue collar job now, it pays decent money and only working 4 times a week but graveyard shipping. A member on here wouldn't stop harassing me mocking me and belittling me calling me a pizza delivery man, because I said I work shipping for a private company who makes embroidered goods for businesses and logo goods, like pens, paper, towels, etc and I drive all the way to the deserted and back to LA.
He kept mocking me and I told him what do you do for a living? I said don't make fun of people who work an honest living you could lose everything like I did and have to work a blue collar job too.

Ill say this I respect those people who have to clean those filthy ass public restrooms at the casino anytime Im gambling and I win something I always tip those guys, that is a brutal disgusting job and I couldn't do it. I remember walking into a toilet at the Casino in Indio Spotlight 29 and some dude barfed all over the floor and the custodial worker was cleaning it, he was an older Filipino guy and an immigrant and I gave him 40 bucks he dam near cried it was before Christmas he said thank you sir.
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I work in shipping too

l@nd0
 
Mike said:
I work in shipping too

l@nd0
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Imagine if you guys just disappeared? The world would turn into a dystopian shit show for a while.

Now imagine if stockbrokers or Wall Street folks vanished. Most people wouldn't notice for some time and the world would keep on keeping on.

At the begging of this pandemic people started realizing such basic truths and I hope they remember once things are back to some semblance of normal. Some cogs in the machine are indispensable, while others are extras bordering on being drags.
 
Bald1 said:
Imagine if you guys just disappeared? The world would turn into a dystopian shit show for a while.

Now imagine if stockbrokers or Wall Street folks vanished. Most people wouldn't notice for some time and the world would keep on keeping on.

At the begging of this pandemic people started realizing such basic truths and I hope they remember once things are back to some semblance of normal. Some cogs in the machine are indispensable, while others are extras bordering on being drags.
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We're a supplier to hundreds of other businesses as well as regular consumers. It's eye opening how symbiotic our society is when you really look at it.
 
Eusung said:
More money being an HVAC repairman or electrician compare to most white collar work.

Many middle class West Coast people look down on them. Joke's on them.
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Electrician is no fucking joke at all. My buddy makes 50/hour and he's 32. No paid holidays or vacation time though
 
TidWell said:
I see this a lot online on here and different forums guys making fun of people who do manual labor, like construction, building, mechanics, plumbing, shipping, truck driver, garbage man, etc
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i do not and i think its a symptom of a very spiritually sick society that looks down on craftsman, i see these men and women as extremely capable human beings and not less than other white collar types.
 
Bald1 said:
Imagine if you guys just disappeared? The world would turn into a dystopian shit show for a while.

Now imagine if stockbrokers or Wall Street folks vanished. Most people wouldn't notice for some time and the world would keep on keeping on.

At the begging of this pandemic people started realizing such basic truths and I hope they remember once things are back to some semblance of normal. Some cogs in the machine are indispensable, while others are extras bordering on being drags.
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Yeah.

A lot of these accounting jobs or finance jobs will be the first to fall to automation during industry 4.0

Where as, you are going to need plumbers and electricians for a good while yet. Not to mention chefs, bakers, butchers, ect.
 
It seems like this same thread in slight variation is made every week in the berry. Dont you guys get tired of this?
 
spacegnome said:
i do not and i think its a symptom of a very spiritually sick society that looks down on craftsman, i see these men and women as extremely capable human beings and not less than other white collar types.
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When it comes to the trades it's a belief that the work takes no skill. Yeah, anyone with some mechanical aptitude can make do with temporary fixes, but seldom in a manner that's a safe and long lasting fix. I see it all the time where people cause more monetary damage in order to try and save a buck than the job would have cost in the first place.

There's also the idea that those chosing to work with their hands do so because they lacked other opportunities. That's a possibility, but you won't find a quality tech who's also a dumbass.
 
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