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talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone.

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ask yourself how many times you see people write long threads about how annoying it is to have a man working in their apartment building, who never wonder how hard it is to wake up at 5, work for 12 hours, and come home to read people talking down to you about your place in the world.

also, doing that work is fucking hard. My body is irreparably damaged. I suffer from mild to severe chronic pain problems because of it. There are few safety nets for manual labourers, and if we want more of them how do we change the environment for workers so many deem as less than?

sorry i get fired up about this but like once a month the "why doesn't everyone become [trade]" conversation picks up despite very few of you actually knowing what it feels like to be one (also i would love if someone who actually knows what it's like to work like that wrote about it.)