Who Is Bob Muldoon?

Bob Muldoon, drew a picture for us about what his life had become after being laid off from his white collared job. Muldoon realized that all his schooling would not necessarily help him in the blue collar world. He clearly states in his writing “Indeed, there is a whole tool kit of basic skills that Andover, Bates, Columbia, and Harvard never equipped me with.” He is speaking about the mechanical part of the job he is about to undertake. Muldoon uses this example and says sometimes he has to use only the side mirrors to move the 60000-pound truck in reverse, and this calls for an all around mechanical common sense. He compares the “mechanical commons sense that is as important to the blue-collar worker to the ability to navigate Microsoft Office is to the white-collared worker. Muldoon, seemed to do the best he could with what he had and was happy when he was able to use his education to help with company matters such as punctuation on their fliers, spelling words when leaving messages …show more content…
He compares him and his boss jobs skills by using abstracts and tangibles. He said he was trained in manipulating words, symbols, and figures while his boss was trained in manipulating nuts bolts and maps. He and his boss seem to be united on the front that Muldoon can match him bale for bale when hoisting the sacks of seed and feels this is a bases for grudging respect. He also states that at least he is reliable and show up at all cost kinda guy. I think the reason it caught him off guard that his boss asked him if he could drive a snow plow because of the way he felt somewhat useless to him in the hydroseed business. I think the message that he is really trying to tell us how important it is to have both blue and white collar jobs. While white collar may be behind a desk and highly educated the blue collar workers put the idea into practice and to the hard manual labor. I think this might have been a humbling experience for him and he wanted to share this with