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Even with the wage these jobs garner, the perception is still there. When you tell people you do blue collar work, automatically you think of people drenched in
by Eylandos 8y ago
Even with the wage these jobs garner, the perception is still there. When you tell people you do blue collar work, automatically you think of people drenched in sweat doing back breaking work, with grease on their shirt, dusty steel toed boots and a sense of exhaustion. They come off as low brow crass individual who wants to get paid and head on home when in actuality that is the furthest from the truth. People judge other people in numerous ways but the moment you deviate from the norm, you examined like a microscope and then placed in a category.
It is just the way we are wired.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoIf a plumber was earning $400k/year reliably with 40 hour work weeks, then they would not come across as "low brow". What people are really judging is how exclusive and useful to them you are. More people can qualify to be a plumber (hence their lower wages), than they can to be a doctor/lawyer/other similarly high wage careers. The latter also have more valuable people in their networks that are also valuable.
- djrogers 8y agoMaybe that's just the way you're wired? I don't think any of the things you list when I meet someone who's a blue collar worker, nor do most of my friends...
- danaliv 8y agoDitto. We should all be careful to make "I" statements here.