#blue-collar-work tag

I'm 66 and I spent forty years as an electrician and the thing nobody tells you about retirement is that your hands don't know what to do-not because you miss the work but because your hands were the only part of you that anyone ever needed and now they just sit there - Silicon Canals

A retired electrician struggles with loss of identity and purpose after forty years of hands-on work, experiencing phantom muscle memory and existential displacement in retirement.

Careers

fromSilicon Canals

1 month ago

I'm 66 and my grandson asked me what I did for a living and when I said "I was an electrician" he said "oh" - and that single syllable taught me more about how the world sees blue-collar work than forty years of doing it ever did - Silicon Canals

Blue-collar trades like electrical work are undervalued and invisible in society despite being essential infrastructure that enables modern life.

US news

fromBusiness Insider

1 month ago

New poll shows the shifting conversation around blue-collar work in the age of AI

Most Americans believe hands-on skills and blue-collar jobs are less likely to be replaced by AI and are increasingly valued over formal degrees.

fromFortune

8 months ago

$100,000+ to install elevators - these six-figure trade jobs don't require college degrees

Despite significant stigma surrounding vocational careers and assumptions that grad jobs are the only path to success, a new report highlights that tradies in the U.S. can earn six-figure salaries without the added debt of a college degree.

US news

fromBusiness Insider

9 months ago

The Godfather of AI reveals which jobs are safest - and where 'everybody' will get replaced

Mass job displacement is the biggest immediate threat to happiness, and it's already here.

Artificial intelligence

Arts

fromItsnicethat

10 months ago

Sara Suppan's oil paintings create a screwball vision of everyday life

Sara Suppan combines humor and sincerity in her paintings to validate life's absurdities.