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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by pfarnsworth on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:41AM (#15788123)
Calling a job that involves sitting, thinking and typing as “blue collar” is fairly ignorant. It sounds like you’ve never held a blue collar job and if you did you would realize how amazingly easy a job like programming actually is.
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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by throwawayjava on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:02PM (#15788829)
Not all blue collar work is back-breaking manual labor, although most blue collar work that's soft on the body also pays poorly. And not all white collar work is higher paying than blue collar work.

A lot of this is more about social standing/perception than earning potential or type of labor.

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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by pfarnsworth on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:51PM (#15789970)
Nothing of what you said disputes what I said. Programmers are well paid and have a high social standing compares to real blue-collar jobs. Programmers are in no way blue collar jobs.
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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by throwawayjava on Monday November 27, 2017 @04:19PM (#15791510)
My point is that "blue collar" is not a static description, and there is no One True definition passed down from the Gods of Social Class.

> Programmers are well paid and have a high social standing compares to real blue-collar jobs

Neither of those is universally true, and it's not even clear to me that they're true often enough to justify your generalization.

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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by pfarnsworth on Monday November 27, 2017 @04:24PM (#15791565)
Your assertions are completely unfounded.
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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by throwawayjava on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @09:03AM (#15797325)
So there is Devine scripture defining "blue collar"? Or what?

You'll have to be more specific. Your current comment is equivalent to "you're an idiot"

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Re:Advice from a 19 Year Old Girl and Software Developer by pfarnsworth on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:13PM (#15803317)
That's exactly what I wanted to say without breaking HN rules.
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