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A couple of decades of being taught to look down their noses at any job in the trades, or anything manual labor for that matter, has greatly contributed to this.
That, and the companies with trades jobs having this insane desire to minimize staff. Working 12 hour days on a 223 schedule is a young mans game. All to go from 3 shifts with weekend to two shifts fits all.
Had a conversation with a guy on LinkedIn about this thing. He couldn’t understand why no one would apply for his 70k a year maintenance tech jobs. Kids are going to college and 30 year olds have other obligations and can’t work shit like that schedule.
Told him I’d apply if it was a 40 hour a week traditional shift, but those long hours would break any person over 40.
True. I had a interview at this print shop had a “flip shift” so you work 12 hour days starting in the am, one day off, then you come back and start in the pm. I asked them how that’s even possible (as a human) and they said “you just do it”. Obviously I didn’t take the job. Also had a tour of the production floor. Everyone looked like they had one foot in the grave.
I noticed the same thing, the people were all dead inside and outside from being worked to death.
One of my current coworkers used to do that kind of stuff. He's mid-40s now, I asked if he'd go back - even for the good money. "Hell no, I couldn't do that now" was the answer.
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