sf260pilot
Well-known member
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2003
- Posts
- 150
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
.....DH106 said:What's important, here, is the way we consider ourselves and present ourselves, to our employers and the public.
A white-collar worker would:
- invest $70,000 in one's education
[yea, pilots are the only mo-fos on the planet with a student loan]
- work six jobs to obtain the high-paying job
[Yea, only a pilot work for free for 10 years just to get the good job]
- continually study and perfect knowledge and skills
[heh heh heh heh...you said skilled. Heck, even nurses get inservice training]
- work in a leadership role
[I was quasi management at a security company once, does that count?]
- manage difficult situations (not be managed)
[Airline pilots are the most managed people in world, whether it be by the company, the feds, the regs, the ops manual, the union, the coworkers, their medical status...you are managed.]
- hold the responsibility of hundreds of lives
[Timothy McVeigh was responsible for hundreds of lives]
- be singlehandedly trusted with hundred-million-dollar equipment
[They can always get someone that looks just like you to drive that machine for less]
- need to demonstrate complete proficiency every six months
[Yea, no other job has that requirement...that's why cops are bad shots and wreck their cop cars twice a week]
- typically (but not always) be college-educated
[All nurses are college educated...so they got you beat there]
I have enormous respect for blue-collar labor. But, blue-collar labor does not fit the description above. [I'm sure a Muslim could rationalize how other religions are wrong too]
My point is, be proud of the hard road traveled to get to the top. This is called a career path. White collar workers follow a career path. Blue collar workers do not.
[More false analogy...you can go from patrolman to chief of police in a career path as a blue collar worker.]
My statement stands, paid by the hour, LABOR. You guys are getting spun up over labels.The point is labor is labor and subject to the issues of hourly pay and workrule issues. To argue the point further, do doctors work with their hands, eyes other senses? To equate the difference between blue and white collar by cost/duration of training/education is futile and counterproductive.OffHot said:PBR, Hospitalist--Doctors employed by the hospital, many are paid by the hour, so they must be blue collar doctors?