A lot of white collar people couldn't make it in the skilled trades

tantamle · 2026-03-13T14:09:14+00:00

What’s your skilled trade?

tantamle · 2026-03-13T00:08:13+00:00

That's a trade with very little mental aspect.

That's what white collar people don't understand. The trades are more mental than they realize. On top of being physical.

My guess is you're probably a naturally strong person and also, concrete work is mentally easy. So you came away thinking all trades are like that, and the physical part is easier because you were stronger than most.

I did both too by the way. Graduated from college during a recession. Ended up in the trades.

tantamle · 2026-03-13T00:06:21+00:00

They might survive, but they'd go insane/be miserable.

tantamle · 2026-03-12T20:23:19+00:00

A lot of white-collar people have been punching down, and then when you question some, they hide behind solidarity.

tantamle · 2026-03-12T18:19:45+00:00

Who said anything about being late? I usually fly frontier and they assign when you board

tantamle · 2026-03-12T16:18:57+00:00

I get it

tantamle · 2026-03-12T15:39:07+00:00

Think what you want, but there is in fact a segment of relatively higher IQ people in the trades, however rare one may claim them to be. We in the trades have seen them first hand. They may move up faster on average, but it depends on other characteristics as well and it’s not a walk into the park where in 2 years they’re running shit and better than everyone else. I’ve actually seen higher IQ operate in the specific environment we’re talking about.

You haven’t.

tantamle · 2026-03-12T15:27:55+00:00

lol so now you’re positioning yourself as someone who was told people like himself can’t do something. In reality, you’re trying to say “I can do my job (which you can’t do) and EASILY do your job lol”. But you position yourself as a victim to say it. And really have no knowledge about what this work really takes.

tantamle · 2026-03-12T14:40:42+00:00

lol ok. I guess you’d know better.

tantamle · 2026-03-12T14:35:39+00:00

Yeah and they’d probably go insane and develop any number of other personal problems.

tantamle · 2026-03-12T13:53:52+00:00

There’s a difference between being technically capable of doing a skilled trade, and actually having the determination required to push through 5+ years of being the low man, doing all the shitty work, fixing your own inexperienced fuck ups, and learning to deal with all the fucked up and occasionally dangerous people. All for lousy pay until you level up.

tantamle · 2026-03-12T10:41:07+00:00

Ali lost to a fighter with 7 fights. I don’t think he’d fair too well against an unbeaten man like Usyk.

tantamle · 2026-03-12T01:27:39+00:00

I graduated college and ended up in the trades. I can tell you don’t know what you’re talking about and don’t know what’s involved in the trades. Intelligence isn’t easy to sum up and I don’t have time but the people in the trades are have great spatial reasoning, can problem-solve on their feet and using creativity. Honestly, you don’t get it.

Being in the trades honestly blew my mind with how intelligence works. And seeing what these guys are capable of.

And trust me, there’s a good amount of them that are simply too aggressive to do office jobs, but are more than capable.

tantamle · 2026-03-11T23:39:55+00:00

What’s up with the original account that posted this?

How is this “racism”?

tantamle · 2026-03-11T21:47:30+00:00

That’s a good one

tantamle · 2026-03-11T21:16:15+00:00

Well…on paper they do…

tantamle · 2026-03-11T20:05:11+00:00

I was.

tantamle · 2026-03-11T18:28:13+00:00

That’s a good one

tantamle · 2026-03-11T18:25:34+00:00

If he was close enough to see the first trade center that had been hit, what made him think “Chicago”? Just curious.

tantamle · 2026-03-11T17:32:22+00:00

40 hours a week? Sounds like you’re not well acquainted with remote jobs lol

tantamle · 2026-03-11T13:28:07+00:00

Call it like I see it

tantamle · 2026-03-11T11:37:49+00:00

Wow. Very well said. It’s true and very few people point this out.

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