I’ve worked both, but I preferred my first job out of high school, where I unloaded trucks for Wal-Mart. I only made $10.25 an hour but I was in incredible shape and had loads of fun. Also, casual dress every day and we got to listen to the radio while we worked.
The problem is white collar makes a lot more money, although it is more boring and lethargic. Definite trade-off there.
I’m a proud blue collar worker but did do some years in the book ( retail ) industry. Not sure it counts but working for B & N back in the day was such good work.
I hauled hay in high school, and that is hot, dirty work. We’d stack 67 pound bales on the back of a truck and take to the barn and stack them there. You were always sweaty, and when you were loading the hay on the truck the hay bales would leave a lot of dirt and debris on the loading tray, and when the wind blew you got a fresh layer of dirt on you. It was hotter stacking the bales in the barn, and there was all this dust and dirt in the air. You got more of that crud plaster on you. When you went home there was all this hay debris up your nose, and when you picked your nose it was about half snot and half hay debris. But I tell you, I infinitely prefered hauling hay to working fast food. I actually enjoyed hauling hay.
I applied for a job loading and unloading trucks for UPS at college. I fit their profile of what they wanted in an employee exactly, but I never got hired. I think I applied four times. I think they saw me as the type of guy who would buy a gun and run amok shooting people in the warehouse.
Oh sorry to hear about that. I got hired long before I got sick with sz so it wasn’t an issue for me back then. I was told I worked surprisingly hard for someone who was like 125 lbs. at the time. We had an old West Virginian guy on the team who used to hassle new hires if they didn’t keep up with me, he’d say “this kid is half your size and he’s working twice as hard!”
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