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It is funny seeing an increase in young men trying to retcon their choice to not pursue higher education by claiming "real men do blue collar work".
My field used to be like 95% men when I started around 20 years ago. I work in medicine, but our specialty uses a lot of heavy machinery and tools to fabricate custom braces and prosthetics. I work at a university hospital and we haven't had a male resident in like 5 years.
Was sitting in a capstone senior class at my liberal arts university. Happened to be taking it with a bunch of business majors. Some dipshit derails the entire class by saying "why do we need to learn any of this stuff, like history? I just want to make money."
"Haven't you ever heard the phrase about history repeating itself?"
"Well, if it's going to repeat itself, then I'll just learn about it when it happens again."
There was a literal business school like five miles down the road. And this guy chose to enroll in a liberal arts university and stay for four years. I get that the industrialization of higher education gave us that bullshit "go to college in order to get a higher paying job" and so this dude clearly just bought into that. But... again, no one was forcing him to go to a liberal arts school.
In engineering school we made fun of how the people only in it for the money all wind up changing to a business major in year 2 or 3. The money is a big thing for certain, but you have to actually be passionate about it in order to get through the education. It's baffling someone could care that little in a major famous for not being great financially
Also... Business has a history. Money has a history. If you want to make money and keep it, learning what happens before a crash or what sort of business practices tend to get you dragged out and hanged from a tree might be kinda helpful.
"I'll learn about it when it happens again" heading into the AI bubble is absolutely wild. People have jumped from buildings over the shit that is about to go down.
It’s funny because if you dip your toes into a lot of blue collar work, you’ll find it still requires (or at least significantly benefits from) college education. I’ve met a few people majoring in landscaping or recreation, there’s a lot of advanced shit to learn. I know I sure as hell couldn’t figure out how to use plants to draw water uphill, but that’s what one of the places I volunteer at is doing with their planting. It’s not just men standing around grunting at each other and doing whatever until it looks decent.
Real men dont work at farms, they own farms. Its the farmhands that do the sissy work like plant crops and go to college.
Nothing says "feminine" like calloused, working hands and a T-shirt tan from working in the fields all day.
I expect farm owners to use a lot of spreadsheets
You bet your ass they do. Modern farming is a multi-disciplinary gig these days. The average manosphere lunk wouldn't make it.
Then who did the surgery on my son??
The surgeon was you all along! And also you’re his mother!
Dumb and reactionary is cool because it's easy, leaving you more time to bro.
I wonder if lead poisoning can be passed down hereditarily?