[entropy12]

May be a Lineman in NYC makes $200k/year. But as you said it is definitely not the normal average.

[EEGator]

Rural and suburban PA.

[rdcbn]

Truth is that many “blue collar” jobs require at least as much intellectual capability as many white collar degrees jobs and actually require far more in the way of skills and capabilities

They work their asses off to make the people they work for a ton of money and many are paid commensurately

And yet our society looks down and does not value the guys who actually make things happen on a daily basis or give them the status they are due

[central_va]

There are some real hard heads( not you ) on Free Republic that project every personal cockamamie experience onto the entire world.