Why do people look down on people who do "blue collar" jobs?

working blue collar making serious coin from vocational technical schools

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owning tens of thousands in student loans with a worthless college liberal arts degree that gets you a job working next to a guy who's got a GED.

This is the sad reality of many young Americans....even within my own family, sisterinlaw got a scholarship to Syracuse....THANK GOD....4 years down the pipe...a degree in communications or some BS....worth what I crapped this morning...she's now working as a medical receptionist trying to figure out how to get started with at least an associates in nursing...thing is now adulthood has caught up and she has bills to pay so she can't just stop working to do things right in school.....this is where college has done more harm than good...yeah she has an education...but if we talking money, that means very little...and unfortunately for most money makes the world go round...

Not everyone who goes to college makes it out on the other side cashing out for what they put in....most come out on the other side with crazy debt and nothing but a stupid degree they might as well wipe their **** with.

Still I would want my kids to go to college and get educated, but I'll be involved in that process to give them the help most kids who make wrong choices don't have...and if I notice my kid has a trait (artist, dancer, acting, etc) I'm gonna nurture the **** out of that trait and not do what a lot of parents do which is crush their creative outlets for the worth of a college degree.
 
I was lucky enough to have attended a community college for an AAS degree in Respiratory Care, 3 years, 0 school debt, started off at about 55k 10 years ago, I'm not making a little under 80k low stress job, 3 12 hour night shifts a week, if I sacrifice a little sleep I'm practically free 90% of the time an unemployed person would be free, since I literally work while most are as sleep....if I wanted to I could get a second job and double my income and still have at least 2 full free days off which is what all 9-5ers get :lol: so I have the ability to cash in 140-160k and still have time off weekly....which is what majority of my coworkers do and I did for a while till I flourished with photography.
 
I also think people are confused about exactly what education is, thinking it's solely a classroom setting, listening to someone talk while taking notes. All those trades requires reading, getting educated on a task an applying those concepts. You don't just step in get certified and become an expert on whatever you're doing.
 
The arguments over education when we should all just be applauding each other for chasing paper. Shoutout to anyone generating income.
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I have a 4 year degree(Proud to have it), but I will say that it was a complete waste. Blue collar jobs make insane income without a degree. I know a guy that works for Verizon as a technician and he makes $120k a year with unlimited OT with just a HS diploma. The job is very grueling as far as the physical aspects of it, tho.
 
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I have a 4 year degree(Proud to have it), but I will say that it was a complete waste. Blue collar jobs make insane income without a degree. I know a guy that works for Verizon as a technician and he makes $120k a year with unlimited OT with just a HS diploma. The job is very grueling as far as the physical aspects of it, tho.
What does he do exactly? Sounds like he would need to have a skillset and that comes from training/education/experience
 
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Community colleges are great and really worth it if you want a job in healthcare besides a pa or md...they offer a lot of nursing programs as we'll as physical therapist and occupational therapist majors

One of my friends is making 110k as an OT and he went solely to community colleges it's a matter of practicality most of the time
 
Community colleges are great and really worth it if you want a job in healthcare besides a pa or md...they offer a lot of nursing programs as we'll as physical therapist and occupational therapist majors

One of my friends is making 110k as an OT and he went solely to community colleges it's a matter of practicality most of the time
The thing is, a lot of those programs still require 4 years of school, even if it isnt at a university. For example, my friend had to do 2 years of gen ed at CC then another 2 years (after a 1 year wait to get in) in the x-ray tech program. The x-ray tech costs a lot more than general ed courses.
 
working blue collar making serious coin from vocational technical schools

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owning tens of thousands in student loans with a worthless college liberal arts degree that gets you a job working next to a guy who's got a GED.

This is the sad reality of many young Americans....even within my own family, sisterinlaw got a scholarship to Syracuse....THANK GOD....4 years down the pipe...a degree in communications or some BS....worth what I crapped this morning...she's now working as a medical receptionist trying to figure out how to get started with at least an associates in nursing...thing is now adulthood has caught up and she has bills to pay so she can't just stop working to do things right in school.....this is where college has done more harm than good...yeah she has an education...but if we talking money, that means very little...and unfortunately for most money makes the world go round...

Not everyone who goes to college makes it out on the other side cashing out for what they put in....most come out on the other side with crazy debt and nothing but a stupid degree they might as well wipe their **** with.

Still I would want my kids to go to college and get educated, but I'll be involved in that process to give them the help most kids who make wrong choices don't have...and if I notice my kid has a trait (artist, dancer, acting, etc) I'm gonna nurture the **** out of that trait and not do what a lot of parents do which is crush their creative outlets for the worth of a college degree.

I knew your sister in law looked familiar! What year did she graduate?

Syracuse has one of the best communication schools in the country. I guarantee her degree is worth more than what you crapped this morning :lol: My roommate and my cousin both graduated from the Newhouse School of Communication and are making $80k+ straight of college.

I'd highly recommend she reaches out to some Syracuse Alumni if she is looking for a job. NYC is packed with successful Syracuse Alumni. If she was in extracurriculars, networked, and did an internship in college there is absolutely no reason she shouldn't be flourishing with that degree right now.
 
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How can you even make a statement like this?

This is, "Certain people love harder" level of ignorance
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The work of physicians is severely underestimated but physically gruelling is a stretch. I've worked in the medical field as a nurse and am on good terms with many specialists due to my chronic illness. It's physically exhausting in the sense of lack of sleep and working very long hours.
 
Not denying they work hard. But you outright say they work harder than ANYONE, is ignorant as hell. How do you even determine how hard a collective profession works.
 
Again, you aren't listening.

Nobody is denying how hard the job is. But to say it is the hardEST; how can you make that claim? 

You are a by the books type of dude, how do you support that claim?

That job is tougher than 18-Wheel Ice Truckers?

What about Cole Miners?

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Your only mentioning surgeons. They are one of the few types that are labor intensive.

As a nurse for 4 years in different fields, most physicians I've worked with (in hospital, facility and clinic settings) are not engaging in grueling physical activity. When things hit the fan, it's me doing CPR, putting in IVs, resuscitating the patient.

90% of the time they are the brains of the operation, I'm the braun.
 
I knew your sister in law looked familiar! What year did she graduate?

Syracuse has one of the best communication schools in the country. I guarantee her degree is worth more than what you crapped this morning :lol: My roommate and my cousin both graduated from the Newhouse School of Communication and are making $80k+ straight of college.

I'd highly recommend she reaches out to some Syracuse Alumni if she is looking for a job. NYC is packed with successful Syracuse Alumni. If she was in extracurriculars, networked, and did an internship in college there is absolutely no reason she shouldn't be flourishing with that degree right now.

Yeah she got it from Newhouse :lol: she was gonna do premed and got invited to Newhouse and because of the novelty of it, she dropped her original plan and jumped into Newhouse....the degree might be worth something in general, but to her is worthless....trust me on that :lol:

I believe she graduated 2012, she was part of a sorority too
 
 
http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/the-10-highest-suicide-rates-by-profession-331520/

Again, it's a combination of mental and physical toughness that makes this job difficult. 18 wheel truckers, drive a truck and get to go home with a clear head. They make stops to sleep with hookers.

Coal mining is difficult I'm sure but you don't get sued for coal mining. The human factor of medicine is what makes it one of the most difficult jobs.
Yea, you usually die from it or long-term health issues.
 
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The work of physicians is severely underestimated but physically gruelling is a stretch. I've worked in the medical field as a nurse and am on good terms with many specialists due to my chronic illness. It's physically exhausting in the sense of lack of sleep and working very long hours.

In a night shift therapist, just because we not pulling around sledge hammers, doesn't mean the job isn't physically grueling....just getting used to function on 3 hours of sleep daily long term is enough to screw up your body in many ways
 
I knew your sister in law looked familiar! What year did she graduate?

Syracuse has one of the best communication schools in the country. I guarantee her degree is worth more than what you crapped this morning :lol: My roommate and my cousin both graduated from the Newhouse School of Communication and are making $80k+ straight of college.

I'd highly recommend she reaches out to some Syracuse Alumni if she is looking for a job. NYC is packed with successful Syracuse Alumni. If she was in extracurriculars, networked, and did an internship in college there is absolutely no reason she shouldn't be flourishing with that degree right now.

Yeah she got it from Newhouse :lol: she was gonna do premed and got invited to Newhouse and because of the novelty of it, she dropped her original plan and jumped into Newhouse....the degree might be worth something in general, but to her is worthless....trust me on that :lol:

I believe she graduated 2012, she was part of a sorority too

:lol: I graduated the same year as her and man she looks SOOO familiar. I could've been your brother in law man :smh:
 
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In a night shift therapist, just because we not pulling around sledge hammers, doesn't mean the job isn't physically grueling....just getting used to function on 3 hours of sleep daily long term is enough to screw up your body in many ways
I know, I did mention it's physically exhausting in the sense of lack of sleep and very long hours more so than physically gruelling in the sense of construction work etc. Depends on how you define "physically gruelling". Most specialists/surgeons I've talked to describe it more as mentally exhausting.
 
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Again it depends on the type of Doctor you are... I shadowed an ophthalmologist for a year and dude had his own practice saw patients as he chose and performed surgery twice a month.

Granted it was mentally taxing but physically he didn't move at all, he had his secretaries and office help to do that. I'm not sure how stressed he was as he was a private person but the job became monotonous after a while there was no excitement sort of a repetitive job
 
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One of the greatest benefits and equally the biggest con of white collar.....

I work 12 hour shifts.

I maybe do 30 actual minutes of working.

1 hour on lunch break.

For a total of 10.5 hours sitting at my desk finding any distraction possible.

Always find it funny how working retail I had to do the most to earn the least... 

To working in IT, where I get paid the most and do the absolute least.
 
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standing for long hours, moving and turning patients.......nurses work very hard.

Surgery is not only mentally exhausting, have you ever seen orthopaedic surgery.
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Standing up for 7 hour complex hip surgeries is not for the weak. I've seen med students pass out mid procedure.
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Never said they don't work very hard. I would certainly agree that a doctor/surgeon is one of the hardest jobs out there.

As a nursing student I've been in the operating room to witness several surgeries.
 
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