Capitalism Vent
Imma be real fuckin real, I kinda hate terms like "unskilled labor" or "working poor labor". As someone who kinda only has the ability to do those kinda of jobs and not much else it feels really goddamn condescending to have what I do called "unskilled". I feel like being able to undergo constant social interaction with strangers 8 hours a day takes a certain kind of skill. It's certainly something not everyone can do. I don't like having my job being labeled as lesser.
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@SangriaSnake I got broken of that attitude good and hard my first year of college. I had a Creative Writing prof who had been working as "unskilled labor" for Reasons but had an MA.
He was quite proud and happy about his old day jobs but needed more money, so he got some carpentry training... and then found out he was now OVERqualified for all the available jobs.
So he said fuck it, went back into academia, pulled some strings he had from his long-running sci-fi newsletter, and became an Assistant Professor. *shrug*
Any prejudices I might've had against "unskilled" work were totally demolished by that experience. He was a bit "beardy" in retrospect, but he was a good professor and a very sharp guy. After meeting him, it was REAL hard to stereotype people for their jobs.
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The construction almost certainly pays more.
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@SangriaSnake (Oh, the stinger of this whole story... he kinda HATED being a professor and was totally open about the fact he intended to get back into construction as soon as he could. :> )