Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?

Re:Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last? by module0000 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:16PM (#15750181)

That's a good list...a lot of it rings true, especially point B. The chances for me to work when I was young were everywhere. I did mow lawns, I raked leaves, painted houses, and every other odd job that a 13 year old would be allowed to do.

Now I imagine explaining to my friends or wife that I hired a 13 year old to paint our house. With 0/0 stars on google, angies list, etc. It's hard for young people to "break in" to something as mundane as yard work and painting.

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Re:Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last? by warcher on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @02:48PM (#15750950)

It's funny- I was an unlicensed grey market house painter for a while in college. I booked most of my jobs while standing on top of a ladder, where somebody would stroll up asking me if I'd do their house next.

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Re:Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last? by jpindar on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @08:42PM (#15753496)

Yep. When I was a teenager, I had a job delivering newspapers. I had to get up and out very early in the morning, even in bad weather, and deliver papers on my bike, and collect the payments for them in the evening.

Nowadays, far fewer people get newspapers, and the newspaper deliver jobs are looking for someone with a car. And I assume they pay for them online.

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