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.
+1. Well said.
My brother is like that. He’s a commercial glazier. My other brother and I are more white collar, although my current job requires steel toed boots and helmets, it’s in a sales capacity.
We were helping some relatives pour concrete at their cabin and my brother was too self important to realize that all of the people he was constantly berating as “college boy” were all college graduates and he made himself look like an absolute idiot.
I’m a big fan of labor jobs, especially when you’re young. My college student son is working a construction job this summer and loves it. He’s learning critical life skills.