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To: wideawake

You are nothing but an elitist snob that looks down on blue collar workers. Lots of people enjoy being welders, machinsist etc. Just because you don't like to work with your hands does not mean everyone else does not either.


68 posted on 08/19/2005 8:40:26 AM PDT by superiorslots (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: superiorslots; wideawake

Yeah--all those toolmakers---

I did err in my last post: it takes as much intelligence to get into toolmaking (successfully) as it does to practice law.

Different writing skills, though.


77 posted on 08/19/2005 9:01:56 AM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: superiorslots
You are nothing but an elitist snob that looks down on blue collar workers.

LOL! I worked in blue collar trades for a decade.

Lots of people enjoy being welders, machinist etc.

I worked as a refrigeration repairman for three years and I was pretty good at it. The enjoyability of doing the exact same stuff day in day out gets pretty thin pretty quickly.

And that wasn't even a factory job - don't think I missed your little bait-and-switch, changing the topic from soulcrushing factory work to the construction trades and engineering. A machinist uses his brain - he's not an assembly line drone.

Just because you don't like to work with your hands does not mean everyone else does not either.

I like working with my hands just fine and do it for my own amusement and enjoyment on a weekly basis.

The fact is: factory work sucks. There are many rewarding ways of working with your hands, but factory work ain't one of them.

It was desirable work in the 1910s because it beats the hell out of picking fruit or cotton by hand out in the field and was often preferable to being a domestic, but time marches on.

Working with your hands is only rewarding when you work with your brain simultaneously - like construction, engineering, etc.

No one enjoys a manual job in which their brain is never required.

86 posted on 08/19/2005 9:09:51 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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