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minus-square LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink4•3 months agoProbably doesn’t help that, at the very least, there’s a stigma about those jobs not being able to provide a comfortable living. I know I’d sweep floors if it paid $50 an hour.
minus-square corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) linkfedilink1•3 months agoMy wife’s father worked carpentry in a factory. Carpentry. He has a retirement and a decent pension. He ate shit for his 30 years, and now he can putter in his woodshop all week. That’s last-gen. It’s not so long ago that the good life was still within reach. It can be again.
Probably doesn’t help that, at the very least, there’s a stigma about those jobs not being able to provide a comfortable living. I know I’d sweep floors if it paid $50 an hour.
My wife’s father worked carpentry in a factory.
Carpentry.
He has a retirement and a decent pension. He ate shit for his 30 years, and now he can putter in his woodshop all week.
That’s last-gen. It’s not so long ago that the good life was still within reach. It can be again.