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re: If I hear one more office worker....
Posted on 12/28/25 at 5:30 pm to Keys Open Doors
Posted on 12/28/25 at 5:30 pm to Keys Open Doors
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B) Are office workers really talking about how they wished they were in the trades?
Not sure who is saying what, but the OT and PT Board are both strongly for going into the trades instead of getting a college education. Both financial and political reasons are usually given.
But OP is touching on a reality most don’t want to admit: the trades are good for other people and other people’s kids. That’s what THEY should do. Not me and mine.
Because fixing people’s shitters, working oil refineries, and melting metal every day isn’t really a good life to live.
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Posted on 12/28/25 at 9:17 pm to Lou Loomis
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You didn’t camera the line to see where the break was?
Wasn’t a break a root infiltrated we knew where it started but not where it ended.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:29 am to LegendInMyMind
That's fricking hilarious Legend, who among us hasn't been in his shoes the poor bastard
Posted on 12/29/25 at 2:33 am to AwgustaDawg
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It’s a young man’s game.
With all due respect to you trades guys, if you are still turning a wrench 5 days a week as an older guy you arent smart enough to make it in a white collar job because you weren’t smart enough to become a supervisor or business owner as a tradesman. There’s nothing at all wrong with the trades, but you shouldn’t be doing the grunt work for 30-40+ years.
You are right, the trades are a young man’s game as far as getting your hands dirty. If you want to be successful in any business, you move up. There are very very few white collar jobs where you graduate school/ training and continue doing the same thing the rest of your life and make a good living at it. Most jobs you work your way up.
The trades are no different.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 2:57 am to baldona
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You are right, the trades are a young man’s game as far as getting your hands dirty. If you want to be successful in any business, you move up. There are very very few white collar jobs where you graduate school/ training and continue doing the same thing the rest of your life and make a good living at it. Most jobs you work your way up. The trades are no different.
You understand what I’m saying man!
Posted on 12/29/25 at 5:05 am to baldona
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the trades are a young man’s game as far as getting your hands dirty. If you want to be successful in any business, you move up
"Go learn to be a tradesman so hopefully by the grace of God, when you're 40 you no longer have to be a tradesman"
Sounds awesome. But most men who were working with their hands at 20 are still doing at 50. Few Indians will become a chief.
Posted on 12/29/25 at 10:08 am to Pondyrosa
Some office worker that's been laid off with little prospects of being rehired because AI can do his job cheaper, faster, and better would probably say these types of things, and I would probably steer them to a trade other than plumbing. But someone wishing they weren't stuck in the office all day, especially a guy, probably would dream of being able to make money with his hands instead. Let them dream, just as you are dreaming of having the office job.
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