No trust me. I had a family member in factory job. They did not like it at all. He gained arthritis from working there, then despite the fact he had been working there most of life without any complaint about his performance tried to performance manage him out a few years before he was due to retire. He earned less then my first grad job.
The problem with these jobs, apart from perceived low social status, is that they tend to be few and far between, mostly because of automation, high startup costs and low margins in the industrial sector.