This article points out something that hits home with my family. All of the men in my family are blue collar metal fabricators. Some work in constructing sheds, others work in factories. The men. The men in my family start off doing ok. My grandpa was married with children, owned his own home in a suburb close to his work, which included…
This article points out something that hits home with my family. All of the men in my family are blue collar metal fabricators. Some work in constructing sheds, others work in factories. The men. The men in my family start off doing ok. My grandpa was married with children, owned his own home in a suburb close to his work, which included white collar people (although there was a lot of public housing around also). My dad and uncles all do the same line of work, but had to move a long way from their home area to some where else and commute to get to work. But they still managed to have a job for life, own their own home and raise a family. My brother has a job, but its not permanent and he lives in my parents garage. There's a lot of alcohol and even drugs have become something in my family, which weren't part of my dad or grandpa's lives. my brother and I have had our own battles with suicide. It seems like the blue collar men in my family follow this graph. A big difference though, I believe is that I have finished highschool and have a master's degree. It makes me look at the world with a series of options for what I can do and what I can learn. I think my blue collar background has made me go down many potholes in my professional career due to genuinely not understanding or having the people skills to communicate with professional people, but I have learnt from my mistakes and now I'm improving each day. My brother on the other hand all I can guess is that he sees the world as a series of deadends with no way out signs. He has no goals, and does not feel he has the capacity to achieve those goals if he tried. His wants and needs are like any other man, a stable job, the capacity to buy a house, to meet a good woman and have a family. I don't have any answers because even though were from the same background, we treading two different paths.
This article points out something that hits home with my family. All of the men in my family are blue collar metal fabricators. Some work in constructing sheds, others work in factories. The men. The men in my family start off doing ok. My grandpa was married with children, owned his own home in a suburb close to his work, which included white collar people (although there was a lot of public housing around also). My dad and uncles all do the same line of work, but had to move a long way from their home area to some where else and commute to get to work. But they still managed to have a job for life, own their own home and raise a family. My brother has a job, but its not permanent and he lives in my parents garage. There's a lot of alcohol and even drugs have become something in my family, which weren't part of my dad or grandpa's lives. my brother and I have had our own battles with suicide. It seems like the blue collar men in my family follow this graph. A big difference though, I believe is that I have finished highschool and have a master's degree. It makes me look at the world with a series of options for what I can do and what I can learn. I think my blue collar background has made me go down many potholes in my professional career due to genuinely not understanding or having the people skills to communicate with professional people, but I have learnt from my mistakes and now I'm improving each day. My brother on the other hand all I can guess is that he sees the world as a series of deadends with no way out signs. He has no goals, and does not feel he has the capacity to achieve those goals if he tried. His wants and needs are like any other man, a stable job, the capacity to buy a house, to meet a good woman and have a family. I don't have any answers because even though were from the same background, we treading two different paths.