On higher education, programmers and blue-collar jobs

Re:On higher education, programmers and blue-collar jobs by ergothus on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:58PM (#19157976)

Agreed - there are tons of work that is creative. Heck, I think the best workers of any kind are the ones that take pride in their work and try to do it effectively - which even for jobs like cooking food or janitorial work consist of plenty of creativity, decision making, and problem solving.

I think it's better to say there are lots of jobs that don't appeal to the workers doing them.

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Re:On higher education, programmers and blue-collar jobs by SomethingOrNot on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:14PM (#19159110)

What better way to refute elitism by mentioning “even janitorial work”; the job so derided by ostensibly successful people that it is the stand-in trope for “low-status employment”.

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Re:On higher education, programmers and blue-collar jobs by ergothus on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:41AM (#19159856)

I was looking for a job commonly believed to not have creativity, so the stereotypicalness makes sense, but if you want me to confess to elitism, sure...I have plenty of bad biases. The point is not to say I'm free of them but to say they are bad.

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