Anonymous #1 3w

i see the value in white collar and office job type careers. i think education is important PERIOD. i just feel like having a marketable trade/ skill is more attractive bc it translates into day to day life . its more USEFUL imo

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Anonymous OP 3w

Now that is different

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Anonymous OP 3w

So that’s not at all what you said. But ok

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Anonymous #4 3w

i didnt mean literally fake, but those jobs kinda FEEL fake? idk how to explain 😭

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Anonymous #1 3w

Yet you can’t answer the question

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Anonymous #6 3w

So there actually is no question asked, but ok!

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Anonymous OP 3w

Can you give me an example? I’m so confused on what jobs you’re talking about

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Anonymous #4 3w

administrative/ desk jobs that are not directly involved with helping people or directly changing ppls lives. meeting after meeting discussing "goals and quarterly sales" that couldve been an email. people trying to look busy. bosses spending hours talking but not saying anything. not saying this is every non manual job, and i see the appeal in not wanting to work as hard. but office work just seems mostly redundant and like... 70% bullshit?

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Anonymous #3 3w

thank u for understanding lol. ive worked both manual labor and a white collar job, theres DEFINITELY a difference

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Anonymous OP 3w

So by that logical, would you consider engineering jobs to be fake as well? They don’t directly help people or change lives. This isn’t an attack on you btw I’m genuinely confused on why you think this way 😭

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Anonymous #4 3w

i see engineers/ STEM careers in a similar light as trades. they're more intense, are the backbone of society, and they all require actual marketable skills. hopefully i'm making sense lol

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Anonymous #1 3w

“Like what do you do”

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Anonymous #6 3w

There you go! So, that was in the post, not the comment I replied to. I’m a medical radiologic imaging major, I’m not as ignorant as the OP and think that “if my major isn’t hands on, it’s useless”

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Anonymous #6 3w

Also something tells me OP is nursing major, because why did it include nursing when talking about blue collar trades

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Anonymous #4 3w

I’m sure OP is just extremely uneducated about job fields and wanted to make herself feel better about not being able to major in anything that required critical thinking

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Anonymous #1 3w

Lmao why you so mad. Take a breather man. 😭😂acting like she personally Called u out

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Anonymous #6 3w

Where’s the anger? 🙃🙃 hostility sure, but you’re mostly projecting 🙄💀

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Anonymous #1 3w

Hahaa someone’s upset.

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Anonymous #1 3w

thats rude... i have a degree and work in manual labor and a desk job.. thats why i made this post :/

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Anonymous OP 3w

This reminds me of American Psycho where people just sat in their desk jobs to look busy and only cared about social hierarchy in the office, fashion, business cards and went on fancy dinners with “important” people. I’m not sure how accurate of a depiction it is of real life. Also, Patrick got his job and everything else because of his father, so it seems that he doesn’t put much effort into it. Also, these types of jobs seem likely to be replaced by AI first since they involve stats and data

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Anonymous #8 3w

I grew up in a family where everyone was strictly white collar and I can confirm this is not the case lol. They do actually do work. I have a bunch of engineers and business owners in my family and have never once heard someone mention fashion and business cards. The fancy work dinners are a real thing tho. My cousin often invites investors to fancy dinners because it impresses them. That part is true I guess 🤷‍♀️

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Anonymous #11 3w

i didn't mean it in a rude way :( i was trying to showcase the usefulness of it

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Anonymous #12 3w

Still has to actually convince*

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Anonymous OP 3w

Is knowing to to work with money not a valuable skill used in daily life 😭

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Anonymous OP 3w

Your desk job isn’t what US busn majors are even doing…the administration reception work is not what we went to school for…however I’m not gonna sit here and shit on those jobs because they respectively have vy essential important functions that help other higher roles function more efficiently and effectively. Discussions of numbers, goals, or quarterly sales (which varies slightly based on specific business function as well) cannot be sent over in an email.

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Anonymous #12 3w

People “trying to look busy” seems like your own interpretation of what we do which is false. I mean there are absolutely those individuals within office or even trade/stem major dynamics that don’t contribute as much to a collective team. But disregarding the entire efforts of others is a bit…of an underdeveloped naive thought. You say you have a degree so….lets use that degrees skill and be a bit more expansive in our thinking

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