graduate goes to work at a company, and is given a mop to clean the floor. graduate protests “but I have a bachelors degree!!”. boss says, “OK, let me show you how it’s done...”
Many, many years ago, an old friend, engineering school classmate and fraternity pledge brother, after we left undergraduate school, went to Hopkins to get his Ph.D. in physics, ultimately becoming a world-renowned professor, working out of the faculty at Cornell. His father was a section foreman on the C & NW and head of his union shop and he had been raised in a very practical, construction and repair oriented household.
The first time I went to visit him after he started his graduate work at Hopkins he was busy with a screwdriver fixing some equipment in the lab.
He remarked that all the troubleshooting and repair fell to him since he seemed to be the only one in the program who knew how to use a screwdriver.