Mike Rowe preaching the gospel of trades and manual labour.
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It’s not just media, it’s academia and the “woke corporate system” that punishes manual labour. No papers/ no jobs, no “Freedom 55” for you.
Nowadays, when applying for a university faculty position in engineering, having actually done anything “vocational” rather than studying all the way through from Grade 1 to Ph. D. reduces one’s career prospects.
On the other hand, my father worked at his trade for more than 50 years. I inherited a tidy sum of money from him because he saved and invested what he earned after paying his bills.
I attended UWaterloo Engineering back before it sucked (well, sucked less) and one of their major recruiting points was that every professor had industry experience and was expected to teach undergrads – no research-only profs or ivory tower academics.
I don’t know if it’s changed any as I washed my hands of the place decades ago.
I don’t know if it’s changed any as I washed my hands of the place decades ago.
I know my alma mater did since I was an undergrad. I went into industry because I wanted to put into practice what I’d learned, spending two years there before starting my first master’s degree. I went back when I nearly finished it because I wanted to earn enough to pay for the rest of my studies.
Those places I applied to for faculty positions turned up their noses at me. Then again, I’m sure that many of those who reviewed my applications never worked in the field or in a design office, or even set foot on a shop floor.
I found it odd that my Ph. D. supervisor, who started in government research after he finished h is doctorate and then became a professor, constantly complained about not having enough money. He had tenure, was a senior faculty member, and, so, was drawing a decent salary.
I, on the other hand, accumulated several years in industry between my various graduate degrees, but I made do with that I earned and, like my father, saved and invested whatever money I had left after taking care of my expenses.
I’m retired now and I’m living comfortably from my investment portfolio. I guess all those years of watching my cash, earning much of it by sometimes getting myself dirty, finally paid off.
As an uncle of mine said about farming. You can get covered in dust, grease or manure, “but it’s clean dirt”.
It is HONOURABLE, and too many of us seem to have forgotten what that means.
Thanks Mike, and thanks Kate.
‘Honourable’ seems to be one of these fall backs people use when they know they can’t really support their preferences with logic and reason.
Why am I not surprised that you show no understanding of honour?
Possibly because you usually show similar lack of knowledge about any topic about which you opine.
Oh I understand honor. So well I would never think to describe manual labor as being especially honorable in a strained attempt to elevate unskilled blue-collar work beyond what it is.
Unskilled.. Nobody survives as unskilled. Farmers know enough to feed the planet… That is Far from unskilled.
“Farmers know enough to feed the planet”
They feed their customers, nothing more. They will also be replaced.
Taking a look at our white-collar brethren, it is obvious that any moron can get ahead if they have an uncle or excuse to occupy a high-paying position with little effort and even less accountability.
The Tams and Trudeaus of this world have had things handed to them and they cannot be removed no matter how stupid they are. They ruin lives, even end them.
A farmer may not have a glamorous job but at least he feeds people instead of holds up food-bearing trucks at the border while letting in unvetted and untested migrants to spread drug-resistant tuberculosis.
“A farmer may not have a glamorous job but at least he feeds people instead of holds up food-bearing trucks at the border while letting in unvetted and untested migrants to spread drug-resistant tuberculosis.”
Grievance-mongering AND racism/xenophobia: always the sign of a winner and highly secure individual.
That’s nice, dear.
Pump your own gas, cut your own lawn, style your own hair, grow, gather and cook your own food, change your own light bulbs, fix your own pipes and dispose of your own garbage.
I do almost all of that. Immigrants FOB take care of the rest lol.
You don’t strike me as useful.
My boss has a different take, and she’s smarter than you or most anyone here.
You may notice that it’s by design that only ‘idiots’ are running this shit show in appearance….
Some other assholes are pulling these Muppets, ops, Puppets strings.
Don’t get pissed at what you can’t control, just be more knowledgeable and aware of the problems these Jackasses have done or created.
And try to be as prepared for when reality and the consequences shit hits the fan.
Anyone who considers honor and personal integrity to be a “fallback” … isn’t much of a man. Amorality is simply EVIL.
When there is no YouTube and all the books have been burned…
What negatively affects peoples’ perception of hard labor is doing it for their first job. Been there, done that, got a degree and will never go back. It’s not getting any dirtier than cleaning the lab’s water bath.
Your just a sissy.
I plead educated.
That makes you an educated sissy. (Say, isn’t there a prime minister near us who’s like that?)
Better an educated sissy than an uneducated peon.
Re PM: surely not Trudeau, who beat the tar out of Brazeau in the ring.
Agreed that working the green chain at the sawmill made me try a lot harder in post-secondary education because I knew my body couldn’t handle that long-term (ergonomics, I had to slouch to be at the right height to slide the boards efficiently and I developed back problems).
But the topic at hand is dirty jobs, not hard labour. Welders, plumbers, electricians, loggers, mechanics, farmers… there are a long list of very skilled jobs within the trades that are being disparaged and are not hard labour.
I appreciate that this is one of your better posts in a long time, but do you see the difference between what Mike was talking about and what you posted about?
I don’t know what planet you or Mike are reporting from but skilled trades aren’t being disparaged by anyone outside of maybe Toronto. In high school the Career and Personal Planning class extolled at great length how awesome these jobs can be. It’s common knowledge especially among my generation ie Millenials that welders and electricians and plumbers can make bank and do it without a vast array of government subsidies, unlike most farmers. If I wasn’t in science, it would be welding or electronics.
Yeah, I had the same experience and now I have a cushy desk job as a “knowledge worker”. The difference is I never developed haughty contempt for those who can do hard manual labour, because I sure as hell can’t and those guys keep my pipes clean, my car running and my lights on.
I only have ‘haughty contempt’ for unskilled blue collar workers with a victim complex and entitlement mentality, and who vainly attempt to elevate their stature with empty appeals to ‘honor’. And those who sympathize with these dyspeptic peasants.
Huh, I only have ‘haughty contempt’ for so called “educated” people with a victim complex and entitlement mentality, and who vainly attempt to elevate their stature with empty appeals to ‘virtue’. And those who sympathize with these dyspeptic posers. – There fixed it.
Some of the truly dumbest people I’ve met consider themselves “better” because they are so called “educated”. They sit in little labs and classrooms or some other mundane bureaucratic cubicle whiling their days away for wages that wouldn’t pay the daily expense allowance that most “blue collar workers” recieve.
The truly dumbest of them jump on internet blogs to berate people they don’t even know for their education status and their means to earn a living.
That was the point of the video.
Let’s also remember that there is no onus to take an anonymous twat at his word when he claims to have a graduate degree, works in a lab or is “in science”.
@Bill K
Oh absolutely, whether UnMe is authentic or not, his pampered comments reflect dozens of similar comments I’ve heard throughout my career from young incoming petroleum technicians and engineers – so why not spring board off his comments to make some wider points 🙂
The truth of the matter is the vast majority of them don’t survive their first few years in the industry at the Technical level. Higher Graduates of course do fine at the Executive Level as that is a Level only available to them in this day and age. The Junior or mom&pop Oilfield companies/ services with genuine loyalty to employee’s through advancement is nearly extinct. Young people wanting to have an “Oilfield Career” today are at the mercy of large corporations with large “woke” HR departments that sneer at experience over education.
“ so why not spring board off his comments to make some wider points ”
Fair enough. He is kinda like a fidget spinner.
ITT, people without education who have no idea what happens in labs and research institutes get angry at those do and do.
“ ITT, people without education who have no idea what happens in labs and research institutes get angry at those do and do.”
That’s bargain basement psychology from a bargain basement mind. It amounts to saying we don’t believe because we’re jealous.
Not necessarily. Doing those not-so-great jobs early on can really focus one’s attention as to what career path to follow. But, for the wise ones, doing those same jobs gives an appreciation of the workers whose tasks make life easier for the rest of us.
We just tell the successful apprentices;’Reward the idiots,charge them double”.
Cause the trades will still be in demand,long after the talking heads are fertilizer.
And because the most gullible are channelled toward university indoctrination,the current crop of apprentice seem harder and better grounded.
Somebody ought to offer Mike Rowe,honourary membership in The Surly Tradesman’s Association.
As for getting real filthy,proper gear helps,as does being able to pick you own timing..
But the rest of the time,you just get filthy…
From a Reader’s Digest many years ago
“When everyone in USA but the last plumber has a Ph. D. he’s going to make a fortune”
Mastering a trade.
Something that seems lost in these times.
Every apprentice lives to become a Journeyman,party for the money and partly for the independence.
Every New Journeyman soon learns the ticket is just a license to learn.
Lost on those outside the trades,is that you will never know everything,everyday will teach you something new.
Manual work can look a lot harder than it feels,for every task has a sweet spot, a rhythm.
Only the ignorant and unskilled retreat in horror when faced with such work.
There is always another way.
Claiming manual labour is unskilled work,only reflects the speaker as never having worked.
During my second undergraduate summer at an oil refinery, I started as a general labourer with its maintenance department. The company needed a lot of people for the upcoming plant shutdown as there were only 2 weeks during which we had to fix or service a lot of process equipment during that time.
After being there for a few weeks, I was upgraded to a low-level tradesman as I assisted one of the pipefitter/welders for the rest of my time there that year.
Learning? I did a lot of that. I learned how to cut and thread pipe, as well as how to install it. I learned how to use a Scott air pack because we often had to work in environments where there might have been hydrogen sulphide. I learned how to use a fire extinguisher because I often worked as a fire watch (a boring but necessary job). I learned how to take apart and reassemble a heat exchanger.
I could go on but you get the idea.
Now, imagine what it was like going back to university to start my junior undergrad year in engineering…..
I started out in the oilfield after high school as well, a 35 year career and then retired at 55.
The first 5 years would have been classified as intense hard labour, which evolved to supervisory, then “highly skilled”, and finally management roles requiring a Bachelors degree with a minimum 5 years industry experience to apply.
That said those days of experience based advancement are dwindling fast. I had also hit the HR “glass ceiling” as well at the end, but thankfully my pay and compensation were well beyond my personal needs for most of my career.
A little Conservative frugality from early on along with a “head down ass up” philosophy made an early retirement possible.
I was in my mid-40s when I quit my teaching job at Armpit College nearly 20 years ago. I punched out when I figured that I had enough in my investment portfolio to make a go of it on my own.
Good for you BA, life is too short to work for thankless aims if you don’t need too.
I didn’t plan it that way, but looking back, I wish I’d had the money to do it sooner.
Managing an investment portfolio can, at times, be much like farming or ranching if one goes about it properly. One should do one’s homework to select something worth investing in and there’s a lot of “hurry up and wait”. One often needs a lot of patience before an investment starts showing promise. Oh, and luck comes in handy once in a while, too.
Heh very true BA, most young working people are too busy either with work or life to focus on investment strategies. The best tip I have for younger people is find a reputable Investment management company and let them do the work with any savings you can muster. Like Fidelity or Manulife to name a couple.
Does that cost some “Management Fee’s”? Why yes it does, but a little profit cut for service is what keeps them in business and allows you the time to focus on personal Income instead of racking your brain and stressing about the occasional downturns in the market.
John, you summed it up nicely. Thanks for the comment.
Matt
An uncle worked in a paper mill. He could fix most anything there to keep the line going. Not ticketed in any trade.
He bought a beautiful wood boat to go fishing to get away from the telephone, coz they would always call Lloyd when something broke.
Dirty jobs also does a public service by exposing the lie that immigrants do jobs that Americans or Canadians don’t want to do.
One of the worst jobs in the world would be driving a septic truck to suck out portables, but only your average looking white folks seem to do it? Why? Because they get paid a fair wage for their labour.
Liberals and other radical leftists used to argue for this corporate subsidy, now they just bring in immigrants to expand the welfare/voter rolls.
That’s not a lie, no matter how badly you want to believe it so. It’s reality. Driving by the strawberry fields of the Fraser Valley will make that extremely clear in no uncertain terms.
” but only your average looking white folks seem to do it? Why? Because they get paid a fair wage for their labour. ”
That doesn’t even begin to make sense.
“now they just bring in immigrants to expand the welfare/voter rolls.”
Takin’ r jerbs AND welfare. How nefarious, except for the fact that the only correlation between welfarism and immigration is negative.
Having had a relative who was Commonwealth-trained and who could speak English be turned away as a nurse in this country only to see now that the province of Ontario not only needs poorly-trained and poorly-paid nurses to replace the pensioned nurses with benefits the hospitals fired for not getting a worthless flu shot speaks to the delusions you live with on a daily basis.
The need to replace nutjobs and idiots who won’t engage in basic workplace safety makes it all the more urgent to let in more immigrants. The answer is always more.
“The need to replace nutjobs and idiots who won’t engage in basic workplace safety”
LOL – That 35 year career of which I spoke earlier involved working in over 20 countries among 6 continents around the world, please don’t make a further fool of yourself talking about foreign “workplace safety”.
That’s nice, dear.
Keep saying stupid, unsubstantiated things and make yourself look bigger than you are.
O.K, posts like this from UnMe are usually when I go back to the “shush child, the grown-ups are talking.” Total lack of understanding about what is being missed, derisive undercutting of what isn’t known, value inflation of known skills.
Someone who obviously hasn’t learned by having to do, who is actively against that learning.
If farmers don’t pay enough to get Canadian workers to harvest their crops then let the crops rot.
Something you are all missing in the discussion is the personal satisfaction of working in the building trades. Fifty years on and I could take a trip back to Toronto, drive around the downtown core and look at the buildings that I helped build. Architects and engineers may have planned and designed the buildings but it was assorted tradesmen that brought everything together to erect the monuments that symbolize Western culture. Compare that sense of gratification to what some bureaucratic paper-pusher has when he/she looks at the the mountain of paperwork that is their legacy.
And a great feature of construction is that you know when the job is finished and the building is occupied you will move on to the next one. Your horizon is opened up again and so is the opportunity to meet knew tradesmen that enjoy the challenges presented when the next foundation has to be laid.
(polite applause)
I don’t give a damn about what you do for a living – as long as it has true value. It’s the parasites that kill us. Especially those doing pretend work in make-believe jobs: CBC employees, diversity and inclusion facilitators, turdo’s bodyguards, etc etc.
It’s not just media, it’s academia and the “woke corporate system” that punishes manual labour. No papers/ no jobs, no “Freedom 55” for you.
Nowadays, when applying for a university faculty position in engineering, having actually done anything “vocational” rather than studying all the way through from Grade 1 to Ph. D. reduces one’s career prospects.
On the other hand, my father worked at his trade for more than 50 years. I inherited a tidy sum of money from him because he saved and invested what he earned after paying his bills.
I attended UWaterloo Engineering back before it sucked (well, sucked less) and one of their major recruiting points was that every professor had industry experience and was expected to teach undergrads – no research-only profs or ivory tower academics.
I don’t know if it’s changed any as I washed my hands of the place decades ago.
I don’t know if it’s changed any as I washed my hands of the place decades ago.
I know my alma mater did since I was an undergrad. I went into industry because I wanted to put into practice what I’d learned, spending two years there before starting my first master’s degree. I went back when I nearly finished it because I wanted to earn enough to pay for the rest of my studies.
Those places I applied to for faculty positions turned up their noses at me. Then again, I’m sure that many of those who reviewed my applications never worked in the field or in a design office, or even set foot on a shop floor.
I found it odd that my Ph. D. supervisor, who started in government research after he finished h is doctorate and then became a professor, constantly complained about not having enough money. He had tenure, was a senior faculty member, and, so, was drawing a decent salary.
I, on the other hand, accumulated several years in industry between my various graduate degrees, but I made do with that I earned and, like my father, saved and invested whatever money I had left after taking care of my expenses.
I’m retired now and I’m living comfortably from my investment portfolio. I guess all those years of watching my cash, earning much of it by sometimes getting myself dirty, finally paid off.
As an uncle of mine said about farming. You can get covered in dust, grease or manure, “but it’s clean dirt”.
It is HONOURABLE, and too many of us seem to have forgotten what that means.
Thanks Mike, and thanks Kate.
‘Honourable’ seems to be one of these fall backs people use when they know they can’t really support their preferences with logic and reason.
Why am I not surprised that you show no understanding of honour?
Possibly because you usually show similar lack of knowledge about any topic about which you opine.
Oh I understand honor. So well I would never think to describe manual labor as being especially honorable in a strained attempt to elevate unskilled blue-collar work beyond what it is.
Unskilled.. Nobody survives as unskilled. Farmers know enough to feed the planet… That is Far from unskilled.
“Farmers know enough to feed the planet”
They feed their customers, nothing more. They will also be replaced.
Taking a look at our white-collar brethren, it is obvious that any moron can get ahead if they have an uncle or excuse to occupy a high-paying position with little effort and even less accountability.
The Tams and Trudeaus of this world have had things handed to them and they cannot be removed no matter how stupid they are. They ruin lives, even end them.
A farmer may not have a glamorous job but at least he feeds people instead of holds up food-bearing trucks at the border while letting in unvetted and untested migrants to spread drug-resistant tuberculosis.
“A farmer may not have a glamorous job but at least he feeds people instead of holds up food-bearing trucks at the border while letting in unvetted and untested migrants to spread drug-resistant tuberculosis.”
Grievance-mongering AND racism/xenophobia: always the sign of a winner and highly secure individual.
That’s nice, dear.
Pump your own gas, cut your own lawn, style your own hair, grow, gather and cook your own food, change your own light bulbs, fix your own pipes and dispose of your own garbage.
I do almost all of that. Immigrants FOB take care of the rest lol.
You don’t strike me as useful.
My boss has a different take, and she’s smarter than you or most anyone here.
You may notice that it’s by design that only ‘idiots’ are running this shit show in appearance….
Some other assholes are pulling these Muppets, ops, Puppets strings.
Don’t get pissed at what you can’t control, just be more knowledgeable and aware of the problems these Jackasses have done or created.
And try to be as prepared for when reality and the consequences shit hits the fan.
Anyone who considers honor and personal integrity to be a “fallback” … isn’t much of a man. Amorality is simply EVIL.
When there is no YouTube and all the books have been burned…
What negatively affects peoples’ perception of hard labor is doing it for their first job. Been there, done that, got a degree and will never go back. It’s not getting any dirtier than cleaning the lab’s water bath.
Your just a sissy.
I plead educated.
That makes you an educated sissy. (Say, isn’t there a prime minister near us who’s like that?)
Better an educated sissy than an uneducated peon.
Re PM: surely not Trudeau, who beat the tar out of Brazeau in the ring.
Agreed that working the green chain at the sawmill made me try a lot harder in post-secondary education because I knew my body couldn’t handle that long-term (ergonomics, I had to slouch to be at the right height to slide the boards efficiently and I developed back problems).
But the topic at hand is dirty jobs, not hard labour. Welders, plumbers, electricians, loggers, mechanics, farmers… there are a long list of very skilled jobs within the trades that are being disparaged and are not hard labour.
I appreciate that this is one of your better posts in a long time, but do you see the difference between what Mike was talking about and what you posted about?
I don’t know what planet you or Mike are reporting from but skilled trades aren’t being disparaged by anyone outside of maybe Toronto. In high school the Career and Personal Planning class extolled at great length how awesome these jobs can be. It’s common knowledge especially among my generation ie Millenials that welders and electricians and plumbers can make bank and do it without a vast array of government subsidies, unlike most farmers. If I wasn’t in science, it would be welding or electronics.
Yeah, I had the same experience and now I have a cushy desk job as a “knowledge worker”. The difference is I never developed haughty contempt for those who can do hard manual labour, because I sure as hell can’t and those guys keep my pipes clean, my car running and my lights on.
I only have ‘haughty contempt’ for unskilled blue collar workers with a victim complex and entitlement mentality, and who vainly attempt to elevate their stature with empty appeals to ‘honor’. And those who sympathize with these dyspeptic peasants.
Huh, I only have ‘haughty contempt’ for so called “educated” people with a victim complex and entitlement mentality, and who vainly attempt to elevate their stature with empty appeals to ‘virtue’. And those who sympathize with these dyspeptic posers. – There fixed it.
Some of the truly dumbest people I’ve met consider themselves “better” because they are so called “educated”. They sit in little labs and classrooms or some other mundane bureaucratic cubicle whiling their days away for wages that wouldn’t pay the daily expense allowance that most “blue collar workers” recieve.
The truly dumbest of them jump on internet blogs to berate people they don’t even know for their education status and their means to earn a living.
That was the point of the video.
Let’s also remember that there is no onus to take an anonymous twat at his word when he claims to have a graduate degree, works in a lab or is “in science”.
@Bill K
Oh absolutely, whether UnMe is authentic or not, his pampered comments reflect dozens of similar comments I’ve heard throughout my career from young incoming petroleum technicians and engineers – so why not spring board off his comments to make some wider points 🙂
The truth of the matter is the vast majority of them don’t survive their first few years in the industry at the Technical level. Higher Graduates of course do fine at the Executive Level as that is a Level only available to them in this day and age. The Junior or mom&pop Oilfield companies/ services with genuine loyalty to employee’s through advancement is nearly extinct. Young people wanting to have an “Oilfield Career” today are at the mercy of large corporations with large “woke” HR departments that sneer at experience over education.
“ so why not spring board off his comments to make some wider points ”
Fair enough. He is kinda like a fidget spinner.
ITT, people without education who have no idea what happens in labs and research institutes get angry at those do and do.
“ ITT, people without education who have no idea what happens in labs and research institutes get angry at those do and do.”
That’s bargain basement psychology from a bargain basement mind. It amounts to saying we don’t believe because we’re jealous.
Not necessarily. Doing those not-so-great jobs early on can really focus one’s attention as to what career path to follow. But, for the wise ones, doing those same jobs gives an appreciation of the workers whose tasks make life easier for the rest of us.
We just tell the successful apprentices;’Reward the idiots,charge them double”.
Cause the trades will still be in demand,long after the talking heads are fertilizer.
And because the most gullible are channelled toward university indoctrination,the current crop of apprentice seem harder and better grounded.
Somebody ought to offer Mike Rowe,honourary membership in The Surly Tradesman’s Association.
As for getting real filthy,proper gear helps,as does being able to pick you own timing..
But the rest of the time,you just get filthy…
From a Reader’s Digest many years ago
“When everyone in USA but the last plumber has a Ph. D. he’s going to make a fortune”
Mastering a trade.
Something that seems lost in these times.
Every apprentice lives to become a Journeyman,party for the money and partly for the independence.
Every New Journeyman soon learns the ticket is just a license to learn.
Lost on those outside the trades,is that you will never know everything,everyday will teach you something new.
Manual work can look a lot harder than it feels,for every task has a sweet spot, a rhythm.
Only the ignorant and unskilled retreat in horror when faced with such work.
There is always another way.
Claiming manual labour is unskilled work,only reflects the speaker as never having worked.
During my second undergraduate summer at an oil refinery, I started as a general labourer with its maintenance department. The company needed a lot of people for the upcoming plant shutdown as there were only 2 weeks during which we had to fix or service a lot of process equipment during that time.
After being there for a few weeks, I was upgraded to a low-level tradesman as I assisted one of the pipefitter/welders for the rest of my time there that year.
Learning? I did a lot of that. I learned how to cut and thread pipe, as well as how to install it. I learned how to use a Scott air pack because we often had to work in environments where there might have been hydrogen sulphide. I learned how to use a fire extinguisher because I often worked as a fire watch (a boring but necessary job). I learned how to take apart and reassemble a heat exchanger.
I could go on but you get the idea.
Now, imagine what it was like going back to university to start my junior undergrad year in engineering…..
I started out in the oilfield after high school as well, a 35 year career and then retired at 55.
The first 5 years would have been classified as intense hard labour, which evolved to supervisory, then “highly skilled”, and finally management roles requiring a Bachelors degree with a minimum 5 years industry experience to apply.
That said those days of experience based advancement are dwindling fast. I had also hit the HR “glass ceiling” as well at the end, but thankfully my pay and compensation were well beyond my personal needs for most of my career.
A little Conservative frugality from early on along with a “head down ass up” philosophy made an early retirement possible.
I was in my mid-40s when I quit my teaching job at Armpit College nearly 20 years ago. I punched out when I figured that I had enough in my investment portfolio to make a go of it on my own.
Good for you BA, life is too short to work for thankless aims if you don’t need too.
I didn’t plan it that way, but looking back, I wish I’d had the money to do it sooner.
Managing an investment portfolio can, at times, be much like farming or ranching if one goes about it properly. One should do one’s homework to select something worth investing in and there’s a lot of “hurry up and wait”. One often needs a lot of patience before an investment starts showing promise. Oh, and luck comes in handy once in a while, too.
Heh very true BA, most young working people are too busy either with work or life to focus on investment strategies. The best tip I have for younger people is find a reputable Investment management company and let them do the work with any savings you can muster. Like Fidelity or Manulife to name a couple.
Does that cost some “Management Fee’s”? Why yes it does, but a little profit cut for service is what keeps them in business and allows you the time to focus on personal Income instead of racking your brain and stressing about the occasional downturns in the market.
John, you summed it up nicely. Thanks for the comment.
Matt
An uncle worked in a paper mill. He could fix most anything there to keep the line going. Not ticketed in any trade.
He bought a beautiful wood boat to go fishing to get away from the telephone, coz they would always call Lloyd when something broke.
Dirty jobs also does a public service by exposing the lie that immigrants do jobs that Americans or Canadians don’t want to do.
One of the worst jobs in the world would be driving a septic truck to suck out portables, but only your average looking white folks seem to do it? Why? Because they get paid a fair wage for their labour.
Liberals and other radical leftists used to argue for this corporate subsidy, now they just bring in immigrants to expand the welfare/voter rolls.
That’s not a lie, no matter how badly you want to believe it so. It’s reality. Driving by the strawberry fields of the Fraser Valley will make that extremely clear in no uncertain terms.
” but only your average looking white folks seem to do it? Why? Because they get paid a fair wage for their labour. ”
That doesn’t even begin to make sense.
“now they just bring in immigrants to expand the welfare/voter rolls.”
Takin’ r jerbs AND welfare. How nefarious, except for the fact that the only correlation between welfarism and immigration is negative.
One reason you might not see that many immigrant tradesmen is because they were barred from their work by an overbearing asinine regulatory state. That is starting to change: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-foreign-trained-immigrants-proposed-legislation-labour-shortage-changes-1.6218928
You will be replaced.
You do know that is garbage.
Having had a relative who was Commonwealth-trained and who could speak English be turned away as a nurse in this country only to see now that the province of Ontario not only needs poorly-trained and poorly-paid nurses to replace the pensioned nurses with benefits the hospitals fired for not getting a worthless flu shot speaks to the delusions you live with on a daily basis.
The need to replace nutjobs and idiots who won’t engage in basic workplace safety makes it all the more urgent to let in more immigrants. The answer is always more.
“The need to replace nutjobs and idiots who won’t engage in basic workplace safety”
LOL – That 35 year career of which I spoke earlier involved working in over 20 countries among 6 continents around the world, please don’t make a further fool of yourself talking about foreign “workplace safety”.
That’s nice, dear.
Keep saying stupid, unsubstantiated things and make yourself look bigger than you are.
O.K, posts like this from UnMe are usually when I go back to the “shush child, the grown-ups are talking.” Total lack of understanding about what is being missed, derisive undercutting of what isn’t known, value inflation of known skills.
Someone who obviously hasn’t learned by having to do, who is actively against that learning.
If farmers don’t pay enough to get Canadian workers to harvest their crops then let the crops rot.
Ahem:
https://www.cicnews.com/2022/01/ontario-to-add-thousands-of-foreign-trained-nurses-to-workforce-0121023.html#gs.mmlruv
Something you are all missing in the discussion is the personal satisfaction of working in the building trades. Fifty years on and I could take a trip back to Toronto, drive around the downtown core and look at the buildings that I helped build. Architects and engineers may have planned and designed the buildings but it was assorted tradesmen that brought everything together to erect the monuments that symbolize Western culture. Compare that sense of gratification to what some bureaucratic paper-pusher has when he/she looks at the the mountain of paperwork that is their legacy.
And a great feature of construction is that you know when the job is finished and the building is occupied you will move on to the next one. Your horizon is opened up again and so is the opportunity to meet knew tradesmen that enjoy the challenges presented when the next foundation has to be laid.
(polite applause)
I don’t give a damn about what you do for a living – as long as it has true value. It’s the parasites that kill us. Especially those doing pretend work in make-believe jobs: CBC employees, diversity and inclusion facilitators, turdo’s bodyguards, etc etc.