Are You Blue Collar?

[KittiesKorner]

Do you bring your lunchpail to work? I do.

I've worked many jobs. Done construction, delivered pizza, tended bar, considered process serving but didn't do it, bused and waited tables, delivered corpses to a morgue in a hospital, formatted documents about tax shelters and deforestation for bankers, set up a computer network for a mafia-related waste management business, and performed tricks for children at parties. While I have left all that behind for the "relative" bliss of working in a cube and getting my clothes dry cleaned for work (which isn't cheap and is the last errand you want to run on a weekend), sometimes I get nostalgic and long for the days when I could just punch a clock, fart in my pants, and piss on a dumpster at quitting time.

Blue collar thoughts?

 

[HeHateMe]

i have the same feelings sometimes.

 

[ijustposthere]

I'm definitely blue collar, but in our exploration on the subject we've found more grey collars. Like sound producers and Batman.

 

[TCD]

I don't wear collard shirts. Im straight up a wife beater wearing guy.

 

[ijustposthere]

Are collard greens blue collar?

 

[nvanprooyen]

I've done a lot of "blue collar stuff" over the years. Sometimes I miss it, but mostly on the mental side of things (e.g. not thinking about work 24/7)...when you're done, you're done. Might be physically exhausted but at least there is some sense of being able to shut off.

Even though I guess I'm technically "white collar" at this point, I mainly roll around in t-shirts, jeans and my trusty pumas....unless I gotta meet someone where appearances are important. But **** that shit generally. If I want to show up to work in shorts and flip flops, I fucking will.

 

[botfly10]

Working labor jobs for 6 years is what gave me the motivation to go to college and stay there when I was 23.

I word construction and landscaping. I was a crew leader and went through 2 years where I worked from 5 am until sunset, logging 80-100 hours a week. It was nice and all to not have much responsibility. But my body was already getting fucked up. No way I was gonna stay in that shit unless I started my own outfit. And then you're a small business owner and not da blew collars anymore.

I still get to be outside and travel all the time in my new field so **** it.

 

[Mitchapalooza]

Do you bring your lunchpail to work? I do.

I've worked many jobs. Done construction, delivered pizza, tended bar, considered process serving but didn't do it, bused and waited tables, delivered corpses to a morgue in a hospital, formatted documents about tax shelters and deforestation for bankers, set up a computer network for a mafia-related waste management business, and performed tricks for children at parties. While I have left all that behind for the "relative" bliss of working in a cube and getting my clothes dry cleaned for work (which isn't cheap and is the last errand you want to run on a weekend), sometimes I get nostalgic and long for the days when I could just punch a clock, fart in my pants, and piss on a dumpster at quitting time.

Blue collar thoughts?

I actually thought you were a doctor, **** you.

 

[Crystallas]

I run my own business. By the definition of some, I am a blue collar worker(get my hands dirty every day, do all my grunt work as well, and have the cuts, callus, and scars to back that up). By the definition of others, simply running my own business takes me out of the classification. Either way, I don't care. What I did in the past and other jobs doesn't define me presently.

 

[KittiesKorner]

keep 'em coming, guys

 

[botfly10]

Tell you what tho, I only had 1 job where I had to be in that corporate scene. I worked for an environmental consulting company and was probably really more corporate light. But still, had shit like worrying about billable hours and kissing client ass. And there were office politics with the passive aggressive jockeying for position. And then, during my second year, they started to get on me about bringing in clients and wanted me to start marketing and to use my academic contacts.

Imo, that shit was worse than they labor jobs I've had. **** all that where everything people say all day is fake as shit.

 

[KittiesKorner]

crystallas I repped you instead of thanking you because of your piece of shit rep system

 

[KittiesKorner]

Tell you what tho, I only had 1 job where I had to be in that corporate scene. I worked for an environmental consulting company and was probably really more corporate light. But still, had shit like worrying about billable hours and kissing client ass. And there were office politics with the passive aggressive jockeying for position. And then, during my second year, they started to get on me about bringing in clients and wanted me to start marketing and to use my academic contacts.

Imo, that shit was worse than they labor jobs I've had. **** all that where everything people say all day is fake as shit.

bot, I just hate working. I only am there for the paycheck. So it never mattered to me whether I was cutting rebar, handling a corpse, or coding the next great website. It's all just a means to an end.

 

[TCD]

Real question. When you are not wearing your sunglass over your eyes do you rest them on the top of your head or do you turn them around backwards and rest them to back of your head like a fucking full blown douchebag. And are the sunglasses you wear white rimmed?

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Real question. When you are not wearing your sunglass over your eyes do you rest them on the top of your head or do you turn them around backwards and rest them to back of your head like a fucking full blown douchebag. And are the sunglasses you wear white rimmed?

Get out of the blue collar thread. Licking toilet seats and scrubbing semen out of hotel bedsheets isn't blue collar! !!!!!

 

[Mitchapalooza]

bot, I just hate working. I only am there for the paycheck. So it never mattered to me whether I was cutting rebar, handling a corpse, or coding the next great website. It's all just a means to an end.

 

[botfly10]

bot, I just hate working. I only am there for the paycheck. So it never mattered to me whether I was cutting rebar, handling a corpse, or coding the next great website. It's all just a means to an end.

Well, I get a lot of satisfaction and fulfillment from my job now. And I don't have to deal with marketing or client interaction or selling shit.

 

[TCD]

Get out of the blue collar thread. Licking toilet seats and scrubbing semen out of hotel bedsheets isn't blue collar! !!!!!

**** yourself you popped collard polo shirt wearing mother ******.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

I've done a lot of "blue collar stuff" over the years. Sometimes I miss it, but mostly on the mental side of things (e.g. not thinking about work 24/7)...when you're done, you're done. Might be physically exhausted but at least there is some sense of being able to shut off.

Even though I guess I'm technically "white collar" at this point, I mainly roll around in t-shirts, jeans and my trusty pumas....unless I gotta meet someone where appearances are important. But **** that shit generally. If I want to show up to work in shorts and flip flops, I fucking will.

Amen brother, same here!

 

[number51]

I work at home 80% of the time, so some days no collar.

Let that image burn into your brains.