Well first off‚ what is a blue collar job or a blue collar employee? The first thing that may come to one’s minds is a person without a diploma working in a restaurant serving guests in hopes of earning their gratuity by the end of each guest’s meal. Meals in a fast food restaurant would not available if it were not for the blue collar workers working those IHOP or Chik-Fil-A equipment each day. Blue collar jobs are needed to maintain society in America. Life as Americans know it would be much different
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who return to study to obtain a degree. Despite these stories however‚ many companies have been seeking employees to fill up positions for months to years. Many of these jobs have included machinist‚ welder‚ and many more in manufacturing‚ hence blue collar jobs. Now you may be thinking‚ how can companies not fill up position for manual labor? But with the pace of the advancement of technology in modern society‚ machinery has become more complicated and requires a higher skill cap to use compared to
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Resume for Blue Collar Job Profile Blue-collar jobs typically involve workers who perform labor jobs and jobs that do not require high level of skills. However‚ with development of different careers and professions‚ criteria for determining jobs that are blue collar is variable. Along with that the skills necessary for blue-collar jobs vary depending on the profession. Some of the blue-collar jobs also require highly skilled professionals who are trained and certified. The blue-collar jobs that
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A common 20th-21st century stereotype is that blue-collar work is meaningless which leaves those who work such jobs feeling hopelessly unappreciated and overworked. Blue-collar work is classified as a working class job that requires manual labor. In his essay “Blue-Collar Brilliance‚” UCLA Education and Information Studies Professor Mike Rose uses personal experience and family stories about his mother Rosie Meraglio‚ and his Uncle Joe Meraglio‚ to combat the common misconstrued stereotype and effectively
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As a first generation college student I did not know what to expect from college. Sure I had heard plenty of stories from my peers and high school teachers‚ however‚ hearing a story and actually experiencing is very different. I had heard all too many times things such as- you will be more independent‚ be sure to ask a lot of questions‚ and most importantly college is very expensive. Whenever someone would talk about the tuition issue among different universities a certain question ways lingered
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those who seek further education at a college or university are more intelligent. Indeed‚ a college education is a basic requirement for many white collar‚ and some blue collar‚ jobs. In an effort to persuade his audience that intelligence cannot be measured by the amount of education a person has Mike Rose wrote an article entitled “Blue Collar Brilliance”. The article that appeared in the American Scholar‚ a quarterly literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society‚ established in 1932. The American
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A different look on higher education People often view things with smaller value because of their perceived flaws. In “Blue-Collar Brilliance”‚ the author Mike Rose discusses the amount of academic success a person achieves doesn’t always correlate to how intelligent a person is. Also in the essay “The New Liberal arts"‚ the author Sanford Ungar talks about seven different misconceptions people have on liberal arts education. Even though Mike Rose and Sanford Ungar both address how society
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The term blue collar jobs covers an entirely range of jobs that perform manual labor‚ these jobs can be skilled or unskilled. Other places paid by blue collar staff is in construction‚ maintenance‚ engineering or other kind of work where manual physical labor is necessary. Blue collar staff are normally paid an hourly wage instead of white collar workers such as clerk jobs who are employed in an office environment who will be paid a regular monthly or yearly salary. So what kinds of jobs are available
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Students are being set on course of education to prepare them for jobs within their own social economic status. The first two schools Anyon observed were the working class schools. These schools are mostly made up of students with parents that have blue-collar jobs or earn at $12000 or less a year. The jobs these parents include: platform‚ storeroom‚ and stockroom workers‚ foundry-men‚ pipe welders‚ and boilermakers‚ etc. In these two schools‚ students are taught to follow step by step procedures that
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White-Collar vs Blue-Collar Even though on the surface it’s portrayed as a fictional occurrence‚ the zombie apocalypse boom is really about the economic fears of white-collar workers simply because these people don’t have the necessary skills to survive under such a threat and blue-collar workers would have the upper hand in surviving because of their immense survival skills. White-collar jobs are on the rise in today’s world. They are not as dirty or as labor intensive as blue-collar jobs. It
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