Quote: 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.
The fact is: factory work sucks. There are many rewarding ways of working with your hands, but factory work ain't one of them.
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.
There you go again implying that just because you did not like factory work that everyone does not also. I know lots of people with factory jobs with the same job everyday that enjoy going to work everyday.
I have no interest in golf in any way whatsoever. A good friend is a golf nut and thinks I'm nuts because I have no interest in his hobby.
Just to let you know, my grandfathers were both members of the classic lunchpail carrying industrial proletariat. Both of them stressed to their kids the importance of educating themselves so they could GET OUT of the blue collar lower middle class. Multiply folks like my grandfathers by the thousands, and you can see why so many children of the row house dwelling, blue collar labor force of yesteryear would grow up to become corporate executives, bankers, attorneys, etc. Maybe this phenomenom is limited to the northeast, but I seriously doubt it.