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> The dream is that your kids make a steady income at something they can enjoy or at least tolerate while not risking their physical health. Yep. The thing is,
by mlhpdx 3y ago
> The dream is that your kids make a steady income at something they can enjoy or at least tolerate while not risking their physical health.
Yep. The thing is, white collar (desk) jobs are bad for your health; physical and mental. I love my job but it comes at a price, too.
If you’re looking for steady work plumbing is where it’s at. Are we at 5000 years of continuous demand, and where skills are transferable across decades (maybe centuries)?
- renewiltord 3y agoI think people like to make all these claims but any blue collar worker would love a desk job. It’s easy and to stop paying the physical price you just stand up every hour and walk to the water cooler and then come back to a well-adjusted desk. Ironworking and carpentry are actually hard on one’s body. You only need one fuck-up. And that’s nothing like being a roughneck. These are not the RSI kind of injuries. These are the They Sent Me Home For a Year injuries.