[wideawake]

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.

[superiorslots]

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.
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[Clemenza]

You are nothing but an elitist snob that looks down on blue collar workers.

And you're nothing but a brain dead "populist" jealous of other's success. ;-)