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This is a very excellent point. Blue collar means manual labor, while white color jobs are anything professional. Heck, most of the developers I know rarely ev
by mathgeek 10y ago
This is a very excellent point. Blue collar means manual labor, while white color jobs are anything professional.
Heck, most of the developers I know rarely even wear a collared shirt to begin with.
- mythrwy 10y agoSo there are three classes of work: white collar, blue collar and no collar.
- majewsky 10y agoPlease don't imply that labor that is predominantly manual cannot be professional. A better dichotomy would be: Blue-collar means manual labor, and white-collar means mental labor (with a spectrum between both poles).
- mathgeek 10y agoI'm not implying anything... I'm going by the dictionary definition. Wikipedia link has good references, if you care to look them up. I agree that you can be a "professional" who does a lot of manual labor, but the blue/white collar dichotomy is rather established in definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designation_of_workers_by_collar_color https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designation_of_workers_by_coll... > A "white-collar worker" is a salaried professional...