The next big blue collar job is coding

Re:The next big blue collar job is coding by mathgeek on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @11:51PM (#13604762)

This is a very excellent point. Blue collar means manual labor, while white color jobs are anything professional.

Heck, most of the developers I know rarely even wear a collared shirt to begin with.

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Re:The next big blue collar job is coding by majewsky on Thursday February 09, 2017 @08:21AM (#13606686)

Please don't imply that labor that is predominantly manual cannot be professional. A better dichotomy would be: Blue-collar means manual labor, and white-collar means mental labor (with a spectrum between both poles).

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Re:The next big blue collar job is coding by mathgeek on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:46PM (#13631107)

I'm not implying anything... I'm going by the dictionary definition.

Wikipedia link has good references, if you care to look them up. I agree that you can be a "professional" who does a lot of manual labor, but the blue/white collar dichotomy is rather established in definition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designation_of_workers_by_coll...

> A "white-collar worker" is a salaried professional...

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Re:The next big blue collar job is coding by mythrwy on Thursday February 09, 2017 @12:23AM (#13604879)

So there are three classes of work: white collar, blue collar and no collar.

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