Blue Collar Worker: Article Analysis

Blue collar worker’s skills and intelligence are under appreciated in today’s society. Most people relate those who are hard working in the trades as unintelligent, however, responding to Mike Rose’s article, I believe these people are quite intelligent. They have to deal with complex machinery, tools, as well as strategies to complete their tasks. I believe that it doesn’t matter your education, test scores and formal ways of learning shouldn’t define intelligence. Intelligence is learned in various ways, many people in offices may not be learning new things every day, unlike some blue-collar workers. The purpose of this article was to show how those who didn’t complete formal schooling are just as intelligible as those who have. From firsthand experience in carpentry, this trade combines all sets of skills, not just physical skills. When properly constructing a home, it requires a lot of math work for the following reasons. Having to frame the house, prepare all the costs to the customer, and being able to manage the company’s money and pay the workers takes a lot more brain than the building process. This can require a lot of mental time and effort on top of the actual …show more content…
Within those two years, I had direct experience combining traditional education and applying it to my trade. Before coming into the school, I choose it because I knew that half the time I would be in shop and the other half would be spent in academics. Within my trade of HVAC, there is a lot of math involved that you do have to know before being really involved in it. I didn’t expect the trades to be much involved with math and literacy, however, after coming from public school, I felt that I had learned more in the trade school than I had after I transferred. This is because the repetition of the calculations and the tasks assigned allowed me to get a greater