My BIL, bless him, has been a lifelong plumber. His credo is “sh!t flows down hill, and don’t bite your fingernails.”
My son will be starting Heavy Equipment Mechanic training this fall. The only remaining question is whether he’ll get into a specialized program in association with the Caterpillar Corporation, or whether he’ll take the general diesel mechanic course.
Either way, in about a year and a half, he’ll have a great marketable skill, at a cost of about $2,500.
A very, very good point.
Words to truly live by.
Well, I guess I won’t be reading any more Forbes articles.
I detest web ads, and they want me to shut my ad blocker off.
Nope, not gonna do it.
Oh well, too bad so sad for both of us.
My Granddaughter graduated from college with a degree in Criminal Justice. Graduated with honers after making the Deans List every semester she was there. She works for the state corrections dept. with Juvenile offenders and is now going back to school this fall in order to get a higher paying job.
Her twin brother, a certified welder and nuclear missile maintenance technician STARTED a job after his 6 year hitch in the Air Force at more than 10 grand a year more than she makes after 4 years.
Of course, he gets his hands dirty and she does not.
I can't read articles at Forbes, because they detect AdBlock and demand that I turn it off.
Frankly, I don't care about ads, as long as they don't pop-up windows or auto-start videos or music. But, ads have become a vector for malware.
There have been several cases where malware was served by a legitimate advertising network, to legitimate websites. The originators of the malware were able to sneak it past the gatekeepers, and thousands of PCs were infected before it was detected.
Everyone wants to be a celebrity nowadays, or make a ton of money doing nothing - with their mouth as their only “skill” - Likewise parents coddle their “kiddos” today. When was the last time you heard a young guy say he wanted to be a toolmaker? Only 1% of all Americans have served in the military since the WWII generation is passing away. America! we make T-shirts, TV shows and cheap hamburgers!
I work in the aviation industry, I wont say all of it is “dirty work”... there is at times of course. But I will say I make a very good living, my license cost me 10k.
I am a “white collar” college-educated worker. But it wasn’t always so.
Two comments: First, if someone denigrates someone for performing a “blue collar” job, that tells you all you need to know about them. Their opinion isn’t worth the air it took to voice the opinion.
Second, if someone denigrates someone for performing a “white collar” job, that tells you all you need to know about them. Their opinion isn’t worth the air it took to voice the opinion.
Dirty work does not DIRTY the SOUL.
In reality, DIRTY WORK is what allows this world of ours to continue working.
Our civilization exists soley on the millions whose dirty hands toil to keep things working. All the so-called ELITE only carry on because a “dirty hand” worker has kept the auto,computer, plumbing, power plant, oil refineries, farm machinery, and hospital equipment working properly. We can read at night because some guy with soiled clothing and maybe a band-aid on his hand is keeping the lights on.
That fancy University is operating ONLY because of the dedicated skill of the people who keep the buildings from falling down. Most likely, the professors would find it quite difficult to give that lecture in an open field.
Enough, I must go wash my own hands.
There is dignity in all honest labor.
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That’s exactly right. We need to applaud the blue collar workers for their contributions to making America work. We can’t do without them and Mike Rowe is the working man’s hero in my opinion! Loved that show.
I’ve done both sides of the fence.
Blue Collar instills the value of hard work.
White Collar shows you persistence, perseverance and fearlessness.
Hilarious! Hilarity probably got him fired from there, tho.
Puritan Work Ethic:
“The Puritans declared the sanctity of all honorable work. In so doing, they rejected a centuries-old division of callings into “sacred” and “secular”…
This Puritan rejection of the dichotomy between sacred and secular work has far-reaching implications. It judges every honorable job to be of intrinsic value, and integrates every vocation with a Christian’s spiritual life.
It makes every job consequential by regarding it as the arena for glorifying and obeying God and for expressing love (through service) to a neighbor.”
Puritan Work Ethic: the Dignity of Life’s Labors
Christianity Today, October 1979, p. 15