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> It's one of the few places where people have pissing matches over who's worked the most. Probably once the work is not intellectually challenging people need
by galfarragem 7y ago
> It's one of the few places where people have pissing matches over who's worked the most.
Probably once the work is not intellectually challenging people need to create a challenge somehow.
In my experience, when you are used to intellectual challenging work, trades feel like a downgrade and becomes unbearably boring. Conversations fall to high school level. However, if you can deal with it and the physical risk, there's money in there.
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoTrades are probably more measurable, if someone lays 400 bricks in a day you know they have built a wall and can quickly see whether it is straight. If I write 400 lines of code in a day it's quite hard to evaluate the quality or even if it satisfies the requirements. This is why intellectual work tends to create more political problems. People know good work can't necessarily be measured so they start engaging in games to get ahead.
- newsbinator 7y agoAlso you don't get to brag in trades that you spent the week removing 200 of the 400 bricks, and the wall is still as straight & as strong, while being easier to repair later.