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You conveniently left out the rise of the industry known as software engineering.
by ampdepolymerase 5y ago
You conveniently left out the rise of the industry known as software engineering.
- Retric 5y agoSoftware engineering isn’t blue collar work. “A blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled labor.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-collar_worker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-collar_worker Plumber or nurse sure, but staring at a screen or moving Post-it notes isn’t physical labor.
- naravara 5y agoWhile wrenching on a car is indeed manual labor I feel like it can take similar levels of mental effort, background knowledge, and training as junior dev work. So the parallel isn’t entirely off base. I believe the OP’s argument is that there are new classes of work that didn’t exist back then. Perhaps they’re not as cleanly sorted into white and blue collar lines as before but they occupy similar places in the socio-economic status positioning.
- Retric 5y agoBeing a mechanic is extremely repetitive. Occasionally people are faced with something odd, but it’s mostly a checklist job because identical makes and models generally run into the same issues. Or as a childhood friend out it. It’s boring, but I can zone out and work with my hands.