I am a white collar professional, the daughter of two college graduates.
My husband is a blue collar professional who put himself through trade school.
My siblings and friends thought I was dating down. My father wasn’t sure at the beginning but my mother knew my husband since he was a baby and heartily approved. He is honest, hardworking, loyal, and strong.
Thirty three years together, married over 30.
Best choice I ever made.
A neighbor of mine owns a plumbing business. His house is just as nice as mine. Being blue collar doesn't mean you can't be well off, and lack of a college degree doesn't mean you're not very intelligent.
My siblings and friends thought I was dating down. My father wasn’t sure at the beginning but my mother knew my husband since he was a baby and heartily approved. He is honest, hardworking, loyal, and strong.
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Your mother is better than smart... she is wise.
Your comment reminds me of a discussion I had the other day with an associate and he was asking me about hiring employees. I told him this..... I’ve hired quite a few people and the first things to be convinced of is that the potential employee is honest, hardworking, creative, respectful, family orientated, will go the extra mile and hopefully communicates well and will never piss of a customer. As for technical skills, I don’t even ask about them.... my thinking is that if my first screen of finding a person who fills the criteria of honest etc. is successful, I will be able to teach the person to have the necessary technical skills (in fact it will work out better since if I teach them from scratch, they will be doing things my way). However if these other characteristics are not in place, the most technically skilled person will be of zero value to me.