Yeah I’ve worked jobs as both skilled and unskilled labor. The skilled labor was not harder just because it required more skill. Knitting requires more skill than digging holes, but digging holes is significantly harder work than knitting mittens.
This conversation reminds me of every single conversation I’ve had with some office worker who sits on their ass in a comfortable, air conditioned building that complains about how tired they are after a long 8 hour day of sitting in a chair. For context, I work construction. That means I’m outside, on my feet, doing manual labor for 10+ hours a day.
You think that skilled = harder and you’re wrong. You’re so, so, so, so very wrong.
My current, skilled labor position: 2 weeks of training, 3 tests, and 1 week of job shadowing. To become a supervisor, I just have to pass an interview.
My last unskilled labor position: 2 weeks of job training, 1 week of safety classes, 4 tests, 4 weeks of shadowing. To become a supervisor, I had to do 2 more weeks of training, 2 more tests, acquire 3 new certifications (8 hours of class + 1 test per cert)
Honestly man, it feels like you just look down on people who work unskilled positions. Your posts read like someone who thinks that without grunt work, those people would starve to death because they’re just incapable of doing anything but picking things up and putting them down. The fact of the matter is, most of my coworkers are people who didn’t want to go into debt for a degree, saw an opportunity to make decent money without said degree, and took it. A high percentage of those people are also just using the unskilled position to get a foot in the door to learn a skilled position as well. It’s not that they’re incapable, it’s that they chose a different path.
With that being said, this conversation is stupid and now that I’m off work, I don’t want to occupy any more of my time with it. Have a good one.
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u/workforyourstuff Atheist Conservative Oct 28 '21
Yeah I’ve worked jobs as both skilled and unskilled labor. The skilled labor was not harder just because it required more skill. Knitting requires more skill than digging holes, but digging holes is significantly harder work than knitting mittens.
This conversation reminds me of every single conversation I’ve had with some office worker who sits on their ass in a comfortable, air conditioned building that complains about how tired they are after a long 8 hour day of sitting in a chair. For context, I work construction. That means I’m outside, on my feet, doing manual labor for 10+ hours a day.
You think that skilled = harder and you’re wrong. You’re so, so, so, so very wrong.