(01-08-2014 11:28 AM)bearcatmill Wrote:  I'm not sure how you went from plumbers and food service managers to artificial insemination of pigs and toilet scrubbers. Plumbers and managers are considered professional occupations. The later category are hourly employees, which requires no education.

I know some plumbers who make great coin. In many instances better coin than many of my college and professional friends. To say a field, such as plumbing, is a lesser occupation is extremely ignorant on your part. Craftsmen, ie plumbers, carpenters, welders, electricians, can make some great money/career, if they are good at their jobs.

I really do not think you are pompous, as much as you look extremely ignorant on these matters.

Again, the average salary for plumbers is just shy of 42 grand a year, same with the management role discussed earlier. I'm sure there may be a well off plumber or electrician some place but they're the exception not the rule.
At the point you're working much harder for equal pay, it just seems like you've been had. I assure you, I'm not stopping people from going into trade school to be a plumber or electrician, I'm just saying, there are much better careers, almost all of which require a degree.
When you tell people "take up a trade" rather than "go to college", you're basically telling them to lie in a rut and die there.
It's not a lovely proposition and most aren't going to want to do it. It's human nature, if people don't want to do it, they won't do it.


As far as the examples I used, I just used the lowest end I could think of to demonstrate that the statement by Teakwood " You do not matter more or are any more important than anyone else." while well meaning, is a load of sentimental non-sense we say to make ourselves feel less guilty. We're not all equal, to say we are is monstrous and cruel. If we were all equal, what would we strive for, what would be the point?

Life's about the end result. Not the journey.