Gen Z Plumbers and Construction Workers Are Making BlueCollar Cool
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#3If you go on YouTube shorts (and tiktok presumably) there's a plethora of skilled laborers showing off their craft. Everyone from roofers to septic tank servicers to carpet repair tradesmen are making videos of their profession. It's pretty neat.
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#4I think that USA culture at least has certainly gone too far in the direction of "college degree = white collar job = comfortable middle-class lifestyle". From what I understand, the PRC ironically also ended up in a similar situation with a vast oversupply of college graduates.
That said, the article focuses on people who have two jobs (their day job and also social media influencing), so I wonder if this sort of stuff is an overcorrection: romanticization of blue-collar jobs with little discussion of its health risks and working conditions.
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#5Most of the content I watch on Instagram is people making things. It’s like visual ASMR. I watched a French plasterer tape and plaster a room yesterday. Weirdly engrossing. I think it’s because it makes it very clear how much skill and craft actually goes into doing that sort of thing well.
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#6I think that USA culture at least has certainly gone too far in the direction of "college degree = white collar job = comfortable middle-class lifestyle". From what I understand, the PRC ironically also ended up in a similar situation with a vast oversupply of college graduates. That said, the article focuses on people who have two jobs (their day job and also social media influencing), so I wonder if this sort of st…
White collar salaries still pay better than blue collar salaries.
Making 6 figures is considered a big deal among blue collar workers in America, while making 6 figures is a baseline expectation among white collar workers.
The US gets thousands of people coming in through the border every day, who bring down blue collar salaries more than they bring down white collar salaries.
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#8I think that USA culture at least has certainly gone too far in the direction of "college degree = white collar job = comfortable middle-class lifestyle". From what I understand, the PRC ironically also ended up in a similar situation with a vast oversupply of college graduates. That said, the article focuses on people who have two jobs (their day job and also social media influencing), so I wonder if this sort of st…
White collar salaries still pay better than blue collar salaries. Making 6 figures is considered a big deal among blue collar workers in America, while making 6 figures is a baseline expectation among white collar workers. The US gets thousands of people coming in through the border every day, who bring down blue collar salaries more than they bring down white collar salaries.
And while plenty of people do make six figures in the trades, it's a much worse way to make it. That level of pay almost always comes from overtime, uneven demand tied either to seasonal or boom/bust cycles, or traveling away from home for work. Often some combination of these.
Almost no one in the trades is just working a 9-5 across town for $140k year after year after year that's for sure. You might have seasons where you make that much but at some point you have to stop pounding overtime, or the work just dries up and you have to coast on what you put away earlier.
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#9I think that USA culture at least has certainly gone too far in the direction of "college degree = white collar job = comfortable middle-class lifestyle". From what I understand, the PRC ironically also ended up in a similar situation with a vast oversupply of college graduates. That said, the article focuses on people who have two jobs (their day job and also social media influencing), so I wonder if this sort of st…
White collar salaries still pay better than blue collar salaries. Making 6 figures is considered a big deal among blue collar workers in America, while making 6 figures is a baseline expectation among white collar workers. The US gets thousands of people coming in through the border every day, who bring down blue collar salaries more than they bring down white collar salaries.
Believe it or not, outside of tech, white collar salaries are still not 100k+. Median white collar salaries hover around $80k. Blue collar jobs like construction and plumbing can fetch you those salaries, but without the debt that comes with getting a white collar job.
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#10Money makes the collar and color cool.