Blue Collar ≠ Low Skill. Prove Me Wrong

It’s wild how people act like skipping college automatically means you failed at life. Meanwhile, I’ve got family in the trades making real money while half my class is stressing over student loans …It’s wild how people act like skipping college automatically means you failed at life. Meanwhile, I’ve got family in the trades making real money while half my class is stressing over student loans and unpaid internships.

Electricians, welders, mechanics, HVAC techs -that stuff takes training, precision, problem-solving, and experience. It’s not “easy mode,” it’s just a different lane.

Why is manual skill treated like it’s somehow less valuable than office skill? Is it just status culture? Curious what people actually think.

Totally feel this.

My buddy dropped out of a business degree and went full-time HVAC. Now he’s making solid cash, has insane job security, and actually enjoys the work.

People always sleep on trades, but when something breaks in their house, suddenly that “low skill” job becomes very important.

Facts. A lot of blue-collar work is high skill, just not “college classroom” skill.

What made you notice this in your class
I mean someone say something wild or just overall attitude?