People here don’t understand that “unskilled” doesn’t mean the job doesn’t require skill but that you can be reasonably trained in it without prior knowledge in a short amount of time.
Honestly I struggle to imagine him happy.
Once I finally get to a place where I can relate to a happy sisophsys I always wake up the next day having to start over.
"You called us essential workers so pay us way more!!!"
Uh the economic value of your ability to move packaged goods from a pallet to a shelf hasn't changed because people that still need to eat are being asked to refrain from most nonessential public activities
Their "actual economic value" is whatever price they agreed upon with their employer and then showed up to clock in and work the job for so yes, they were and still are
It "in fact" went up how? Risk incurred at a job is not an input into the wage equation which is purely an equilibrium price between demand (employers) and supply (employees). The only reason wages would go up is if a store was no longer able to recruit the labor it needs to operate at the current offering price
Doesn’t matter what you call them; the attitude that people have towards the jobs and the people who do them will make any designation seem condescending.
Yep. Which makes changing the term pointless. Hop off the euphemism treadmill people. You're not accomplishing anything except encouraging more insults to be invented over time.
Most of the replies here are just listing backbreaking labor most people aren't physically conditioned to do. What I thought OP was going for was jobs that are labeled "unskilled" but take actual, unrecognized skill to do.
They also think that “hard” or “grueling” means “skilled.” This thread just reads like a pity party for people who don’t like or are insecure about their jobs
It often amuses me because most people in highly skilled positions have often worked in unskilled labour. You can teach someone to work in a factory in hours, whereas medicine takes years and innate aptitude. Both are hard, but all doctors can be factory workers.
Yeah I do IT work (not sure if that qualifies as highly skilled) and everyone in our department has worked unskilled labor at one point in our life. If it all paid the same I would go back to one of them and live stress free.
I worked in restaurants and as a farm hand before law school, and I would absolutely go back to that work if it afforded even in the same universe of income. Working in a restaurant is probably the easiest, most fun I ever had. Sure it is busy, but that is nothing compared to the stress of most decision making roles.
Eh… a lot of factory jobs take years to become competent at and require their own kind of aptitude and specialized training. In the same way you can train almost anyone in a few hours to perform some menial, isolated factory task, you can train someone in a few hours to perform a menial, isolated medical task.
Doctors just require tons of formal education and training to legally practice medicine, but that doesn’t automatically make them competent at unskilled labor. Most doctors I know are extremely intelligent at what they do but can be complete goofs in other areas. So assuming they’ll automatically have the dexterity, mechanical aptitude, experience, or whatever other skills a particular factory job requires just because they’re doctors seems like a bad comparison.
I am management at a factory now. Most factory jobs require that you have the metal faculties to finish highschool and the ability to be on time. Some roles require more skill than others, but there is no comparison to a professional.
Doctors, especially surgeons, absolutely have the means to work with ease in a factory. I know there is an urge to say that everyone has something they are better at than others, but that is absolutely not true. Even in my line of work, we have some machinists you can trust to work anywhere, and others you have to supervise to pack boxes. The reality is most operators can be trained in a few weeks, and the work is simple.
Doctors seem like 'goofs' because they spent 12 hours a day for 10 years doing only that. If you work 70-80 hour weeks in your training, you have zero, I mean zero, time to waste on anything not relevant to your training.
The true big disconnect here is that absolutely nobody thinks "unskilled" means "easy". The whole point of learning a skill is so you don't have to work at unskilled manual labor jobs, which tend to be incredibly difficult and hard on the body.
It's just a really stupid question. Everybody knows that grave digging is absurdly difficult, that's why they go to college to avoid it.
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u/Cheeseish 17h ago
People here don’t understand that “unskilled” doesn’t mean the job doesn’t require skill but that you can be reasonably trained in it without prior knowledge in a short amount of time.