In Matthew B. Crawford’s “The Case For Working With Your Hands” he writes about how having a manual labor job is right for some people. His thesis being, a physical labor job can be more rewarding than a desk job, Crawford tells how in current times young men and women are taught to believe that to be a successful person you must attend college and then go on to pursue a career wearing a suit and tie while working at a desk. He goes on to describe his own personal experience of working different jobs in the labor force and then working different desk jobs after earning his multiple degrees. After working the various jobs which include working at a Porsche repair shop, owning his own company as an electrician, writing multiple abstracts on
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If someone decides not to go to college out of high school, but instead start working a job that could be their career it is seen that they are lesser of a person and will not have a promising life. On page 396 in the fourth paragraph Crawfords states, “A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not destructive.” On the first page of the article, page 395, the author mentions television shows Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch and how people are entertained by watching others do the jobs they could not imagine having as a career. He then goes to talk about the gratitude those with white-collar jobs show to the workers who face hazards in their everyday work environment and that possibly there is envy in the gratitude. (Page 396) But is the current goal to “round up every warm body and send it to college then to a cubicle,” (Page 395) the correct approach to creating a workforce? If everyone is doing the office jobs who will be doing the physical jobs and fixing all of the appliances and cars for the white-collar class? Plumbers and mechanics may be needed more today because of the economy and Americans trying to make things last rather than going out and buying something …show more content…
(Page 396) This increase in business is not limited to mechanics. Since the recession, there has been an emergence of numbers in the labor field. On page 396 Alan Blinder, a Princeton Economist, says that two reasons there has been an increase for blue-collar jobs. First, careers as a plumber, an electrician or a mechanic are becoming more popular because they have better job security than a job in a field that involves technology like working over a phone or computer. Countries like India and China are ahead of the United States in education and could be more qualified for the jobs Americans are trying to obtain with the degrees earned in the United States. Also, outsourcing to foreign countries can save business thousands, if not millions of dollars. Jobs can be outsourced and the American employee will be left unemployed. Alan Blinder says, “ You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet.” (Page 396) Crawford goes on to say how Alan Blinder’s second point is that some young people are not made to sit at a desk for hours a day. Some have a natural tendency to take action instead of sitting and learning all day long. In the fourth paragraph on page 396 Crawford uses the example of forcing drugs like Ritalin into young boys so they can stay focused in class. That is what is widely thought of as the correct thing to do because everyone needs a college education. Physical
If someone decides not to go to college out of high school, but instead start working a job that could be their career it is seen that they are lesser of a person and will not have a promising life. On page 396 in the fourth paragraph Crawfords states, “A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not destructive.” On the first page of the article, page 395, the author mentions television shows Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch and how people are entertained by watching others do the jobs they could not imagine having as a career. He then goes to talk about the gratitude those with white-collar jobs show to the workers who face hazards in their everyday work environment and that possibly there is envy in the gratitude. (Page 396) But is the current goal to “round up every warm body and send it to college then to a cubicle,” (Page 395) the correct approach to creating a workforce? If everyone is doing the office jobs who will be doing the physical jobs and fixing all of the appliances and cars for the white-collar class? Plumbers and mechanics may be needed more today because of the economy and Americans trying to make things last rather than going out and buying something …show more content…
(Page 396) This increase in business is not limited to mechanics. Since the recession, there has been an emergence of numbers in the labor field. On page 396 Alan Blinder, a Princeton Economist, says that two reasons there has been an increase for blue-collar jobs. First, careers as a plumber, an electrician or a mechanic are becoming more popular because they have better job security than a job in a field that involves technology like working over a phone or computer. Countries like India and China are ahead of the United States in education and could be more qualified for the jobs Americans are trying to obtain with the degrees earned in the United States. Also, outsourcing to foreign countries can save business thousands, if not millions of dollars. Jobs can be outsourced and the American employee will be left unemployed. Alan Blinder says, “ You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet.” (Page 396) Crawford goes on to say how Alan Blinder’s second point is that some young people are not made to sit at a desk for hours a day. Some have a natural tendency to take action instead of sitting and learning all day long. In the fourth paragraph on page 396 Crawford uses the example of forcing drugs like Ritalin into young boys so they can stay focused in class. That is what is widely thought of as the correct thing to do because everyone needs a college education. Physical