Something that is incredibly UNMANLY is working for cash. If the only thing you care about in your job is your paycheck, you aren’t worth spit as a man!
Ah. So you work for free? That nice hacienda style house with a stable there in what, East Tucson came for free? Retired out of DM or Luke and they gave you a house gratis, right? Right...sure they did.
A "manly" job is one where you keep your family housed, clothed and fed, and provide for their future. That's it.
Your earlier post alluded to that. So stay on that track, it's the right one. Any idiot can be trained to ride horses, shoot a big gun, drive a tractor; that's why the pay is low - simple skills. The difficult things in life require patience and dedication to develop talents and abilities that people have in varying degrees - and it's when all of those stars align that you have real value.
An acquaintance of mine is a 4 star. He's the sort of guy who doesn't talk about the illustrious past: he stays in the now. Working with him, you notice that there are very few rough spots, and he takes you along for the ride quite nicely. At the end, everyone gets it: that's how he ended up where he is.
No big noise, no chest thumping, no screaming...just the right mix of perception, organization and knowledge.
That's um, "manly". And he doesn't even have to wear the nice little epaulets every day: everyone knows.
Thank goodness I work for direct deposit!
Of course sitting around all day using ten fingers to hit a plurality of little square buttons might not widely be considered manly.
I suspect that they are actually paying me to know which buttons to push, and in which order.