I’d say high rise iron workers seem the coolest. Think back to that black and white picture everyone has seen of the two guys sitting on a beam hundreds of feet up eating lunch.
Maybe just plain ol carpenter. Like part of “cool” is unaffected or aloof. A dude or chick who builds their own home and the furniture inside? That’s just cool. A lot of the stuff listed here actually takes a decent amount of nerdiness or at least passion. While the jobs are awesome, idk that they’re the coolest.
naval carpentry, it’s something that differs a lot based in the country, and it’s usually passed down from father to son
I build spacecraft and I think that’s pretty cool.
That’s why they have radiators.
Sounds pretty cool
The coolest.
Plumbers
Source: movies
So many traditional blue collar jobs have connotations associated with them that make the workers irredeemably uncool.
But, machinists. I just love machining.
Yeah, machinists don’t judge when you start talking about being real into cnc
😉
I’ve been told fork lift drivers fuck
Almost exclusively by fork lift drivers but they seem really convincing
They do
Forklift operator here, it’s all true.
You’re mishearing. They fork.
Commercial airplane assembly/machinist. Putting together a precision engineered gigantic machine that will last 40 years, carry millions of people, and travel millions of miles.
I raise you: Spacecraft.
Definitely the cool factor, but less tangible impact on the average Joe.
Anything with a chainsaw
Shit is sick
Strippers or bartenders.
I wouldn’t consider either blue collar. I’d say maybe gray collar. Those are both service industry customer facing jobs. Work for sure but not in the blue collar bucket.
Stripper would be no collar.
Striping is manual labor and bartending is a skilled trade.
I disagree with applying the blue collar label. In the same way corrections officer or being an er doc is a skilled position with manual labor. I still wouldn’t consider either blue collar even though they fit the criteria you’re prescribing. But you can choose to think however you want. I feel like if we go down this road you’ll just be intentionally obtuse either way though.
Just keep in mind who made these distinctions to divide the working class. And how they are used to justify lower wages for certain people. These “grey collar” service industry jobs are actually pink collar jobs. So named because they are historically primarily filled by women.
Do you believe every job, period, is of equal importance and should be compensated equally? I’m positive both a stripper and a bar tender make considerably more money than a laborer (even in the laborors union) on a construction site. About 20-23 dollars an hour. Non union would typically be just above minimum wage. Are you saying the laborer should be making the 45-55 the master plumber installing the gas lines on that same site makes? Is it the esoteric “they” or is it common sense to compensate different levels/types of work differently.
I think they did their jobs well because you’re worried about keeping fellow wage earners down as opposed to lifting them up.
At no point did I say or imply all wages should be equal. But what I did say is those divisions in the laboring class you are so worried about are designed to divide and minimize working class people so that the ownership class can exploit them. And you seem to be playing your part quite nicely.
So what would justify a difference in wage between two individuals? In your opinion.
Traditional blacksmith by far
Fair enough
Firefighters are pretty cool.
I disagree; it seems like they’d often be quite warm.
Raise the bar. Smoke jumper
That is undeniably a very cool kind of firefighter, but firefighting is a team sport and I think they’re all cool.
I’m not sure I’d consider them blue collar. Idk maybe, they do use pretty wild tools for demo sometimes.
It’s definitely blue collar. Firefighters do a lot more than spray hoses, it’s a ton of manual labor and heavy equipment even when fires aren’t burning.
Thats fair
probably steel mill workers.
Machinist at NASA.
Steeplejack.
