Career: blue-collar vs white-collar. Which do you prefer

As a woman, I have always prefered blue-collar men over white-collar. I think that physically hard working men are soooo hot. I can't stand any guy who has softer hands then I do.....That being said, my husband is a research and development engineer for a lighting company, so I guess he would be considered white-collar. Don't worry though, at home, he is all blue-collar! He loves to take on all kinds of projects around the house...

I had 5 sons....they are probably somewhere in your age range. 3 have the white collars jobs and 2 are blue collar. The money/wages seem to be fairly even. Tucker, one of my blue collar boys, his really raking it in. He has such a head for business, I wonder why he did not choose a white collar profession. He is into everything. Since he is a carpenter he runs into alot of real estate "deals". We helped him with a small down payment a couple of years ago on his first house. We were paid back in 6 months. He has since flipped 6 more houses and in the spring will be building his oun house here on the ranch paid for in cash! I'm very proud of all my boys and their accomplishments, but Tucker will be kept busy by his brothers buying and flipping for them now as well. A trade is a very good choice. I wish you luck in your future endeavors

When I was a kid my father would have me shot firewood in the winter, and do allot of other manual labor during the summer, I prefer white collar jobs definitely.

Other one suits me fine. I am trying to work my way towards becoming a full fledged enterprenure. I am on this computer 7 to 8 hours a day. Lately its been less due to personal crisis in my family. My hubby is trying to go out and get two more computers. One for me and one for my 20 year old and 17 year old to share.

I've done both, and have spent most of my career at a writing, which I would call 'no collar'! It does involve spending a lot of time sitting at a computer, which gets real dull. My brother in law got a degree in chemical engineering long ago but has worked for 20 years doing landscaping, which he loves. He knows a lot about plants, etc. and gets to work outside and get exercise. A trade is always good and in demand. And construction, plumbing, electrical work, etc. aren't jobs that can be outsourced to another country!

i like to be a white collar worker... simply because i like computers and i have some interest in this career than a blue collar career... this field u have to work less and can earn more... this has a lot of hope in my country but in a blue collar job the work is more than you get... i go for the white collar job rather than a blue collar job...

The preference in general will be for white collar jobs. But everyone may not be fit to undertake such jobs.Or may be sometimes the jobs may not be availble to a person who can do such jobs, because of various reasons. Moreover though it is general liking to go for a white collare jobs , you may be surpried to learn that there are people who prefer blue collared jobs and evern there are who give up white collar jobs availbale to them and go for blue collar jobs.

If u take the computer science, it is a boom one....But they get the more amount of profit from u by stuff u in work...from this, u can lose your happyness and also your sleep....I'm currently a civil engineering student...in my field, there is a lots of oppurtunity is there...so i woud prefer this one..At first the salary is lower than softwaree....but if have so much experience, i would earned some 100's of dollars per month...Its a life long jobs when compared to white collar jobs which would go down at anytime....

well i have done blue collar job&now i am doing white collar job.and my prefrence is white collar job...

you can make alot of money in the trades. my son went for heating and air. He got a job at a huge pharmacutical company-and makes 6 figures a year. if it were not for the trades, these companies could not survive.

it all depends on luck and ur choice. Do what u wish to do, ultimately, its ur life

this is depends only you if u think you are working in your field then you will feel good.but some time you are earning low money then you try to change you field and you do some wrong type of work. so plez do white coller job then you will be feel fine...........

I spent 24 years in a comp sci, my job got outsourced to India. Being a carpenter, is great, you can't be outsourced. People's homes always need repairs or they want additions or do remodeling. It may slow down, but even in a recession there is work. Good choice!

I am in the "Information Technology" at the moment. Do you call this "White Collar" ? Which professions are "Blue Collar" ?

Well for me it does not really matter what color is the collar as long as the job promises a very good salary. also that the job is a job which i can grow, learn and can contribute to it. greetings. ; )

This is a interesting discussion whit collar or blue collar job.I feel one should adapt to both collars at times we have do white and at times we have to blue collared.It depends on a person i preferboth white and blue collared.

Im a blue collar worker and have been all my life,but that doesnt stop me from learning how to use a computer ect. Sure you will get paid while an apprentice,but you can do apart timejob while going to uni as well. So in the end it comes down to what you really want to do, and if your young, which im sure you are, then after you get your trade papers doesnt mean you have to do that for the rest of your life, you can establish your self in life, and then go back and learn computer science if you choose. Good luck either way.

Currently I'm about a step away from a job as a massage therapist. I'm not entirely sure if this would be considered blue or white collar. Probably blue, though, as it's a very hands-on proffession. Actually, I've always wanted to make money writing or something...Got into massage because someone said I gave good back rubs, and I realized that I could go to school for a bit and then make money from something I was at least sorta good at.

hi hassanchop. i used to work in offices for years doing accounts and purchase ledger. enjoyed it a first on computers and paperwork etc... but it got so tedious everyday being stuck in those four walls. so decided to get out and try something completely different. i have now been a van/lorry driver for a few years and enjoy it so much more! no boss looking over your shoulder everyday, being out and about all day and meeting so many different people. i look forward to getting up in the morning now ( ok, i don't mind lol! )

more money now or more money later, great to have a trade, but if you have an aptiude for more complex operatations, you might get bored with the trade the choice is where do you think you will be happy, and that changes with time, as you get older you might want a white collar job, when you are young the hard active work is great, but later on it becomes a real grind and of course the statistics say that several major career changes are expected, wish i had a trade, it opens many doors, carpenter, builder, engineer, architect, computer specialist, teaching, contractor