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Re: Blue compared to White collared jobs.
One of Mike Rowe's responses from the interview that hits the nail on the head:
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There is nothing wrong with working in an office. There is nothing wrong with getting a college degree. The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. Why do we value one above the other, when our future depends upon both? That’s our blind spot.
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I do two things at my job: I'm an engineer most of the time, and I weld and machine when I'm needed to. The later is usually much more satisfying than the former. TIG welding and machining titanium for prototype equipment is way cooler than spec'ing out a plug or writing reports. 
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Theory is a nice place, I'd like to go there one day, I hear everything works there.
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot, common sense is trying to not be an idiot, wisdom is knowing that you will still be an idiot.
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