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Reviving Blue Collar Work: 4 Myths About the Skilled Trades

• artofmanliness.com by Jeremy Anderberg

Meanwhile unemployment among college graduates is at an all-time high, and the majority of those graduates with jobs are not even working in their field of study. Plus, they owe a trillion dollars in student loans. A trillion! And still, we push a four-year college degree as the best way for the most people to find a successful career?" -Mike Rowe

For better or for worse, what we do for a living often defines us. It's one of the first questions we ask people when we meet them for the first time. It's where we will end up spending 90,000 hours of our life, over the course of 40-some years. Unfortunately, most people count themselves as unhappy with their work (by two to one worldwide!). Pop culture endlessly makes fun of the drone-like office employee, and yet that's where most of us are.


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