blue collar vs white collar. social class and relationships (dating, married, women)

[Rhett_Butler]

So long as my wife realizes that I'm the greatest, everyone else realizing it one by one is just sprinkles on my cupcake.....

[lionking]

Originally Posted by robertpolyglot

Anybody who talks down to the person who works on their car is a true piece of $hit. I have talked to my mechanics for as long as I can remember. Between reading ad nauseum and talking to them, I am extremely knowledgeable about cars (and that's why my last car hit 250,000 miles).

The problem is that these chicks KNOW that they could never attain that standard of living on their own. So, in reality, it's a superiority complex to cover an inferiority complex. And that's why there are stories of women who have to "look the other way" when their super-monied husbands are banging other women...it wouldn't be a good idea to "rock the apple cart" as they say.

Doesn't it want to make you throw in some nasty spark plugs or used oil into their car? They'd never know. And, I know you couldn't/wouldn't.

I'm not just talking about a tech,but as a service writer or something else also.And I shouldn't say everybody acts that way but a fair share specially when I was in Miami which a city of people who are rude and judging on "class" anyway.

But on the flip side the hubby and wife who are comfortable in a arrangement there are hubbies who go to Costa Rica for a week and drop loads of money partying and bring 21 year old chicas back to the room while wifey is at home playing tennis.

I have a friend who is in landscape,started as a weed eater in the company now is the owners right hand man.My friend has told me stories about some of their multi million dollar accounts on rich areas where the people moan and belittle them for a blade of grass not cut properly.....and my friend is a millionaire in the landscape company himself but the others don't see him that way.

Eh,some people are down to Earth but others can be snobby.

[robertpolyglot]

Originally Posted by lionking

Thats why "Laura" who is married to a millionaire might bang "John" the pool guy on the side but won't drive off with him in his Ford Escort to live with him in the trailer park.

Interesting that on the flip side a male doctor or lawyer or millionaire might be inclinded to hook up with a blue collar girl because she is hot,or even a stripper but then again thay are probably the ones that bring their BMW or Mercedes in for service that there sugardaddy bought.

The rich chick who bangs the pool guy has to be pathetic in that she obviously married for money...she is unfulfilled at home, and that's probably the way it was from DAY ONE...the pool guy wasn't a "revelation" 10 years into the marriage.

The rich powerful guy who marries socioeconomically way down probably has control issues. He wants to be revered and needed. He doesn't want an "equal" to question him. Hot or stripper? Most strippers, regardless of how hot and feminine (in looks, not by how calloused they are) are reportedly lesbians.

[Davachka]

Originally Posted by robertpolyglot

The rich chick who bangs the pool guy has to be pathetic in that she obviously married for money...she is unfulfilled at home, and that's probably the way it was from DAY ONE...the pool guy wasn't a "revelation" 10 years into the marriage.

The rich powerful guy who marries socioeconomically way down probably has control issues. He wants to be revered and needed. He doesn't want an "equal" to question him. Hot or stripper? Most strippers, regardless of how hot and feminine (in looks, not by how calloused they are) are reportedly lesbians.

Yes and no. Many people cheat, you don't have to marry for money to do so.

And the rich powerful guy is not necessarily in a different social class than a stripper. Many rich powerful men came from lower class backgrounds themselves and that is who they are naturally attracted to.

Basically what I am trying to say is

Money does not equal a higher socioeconomic class. Neither does education.
Both are possible tools to use to rise into a different class but they are not equivalent.

[CuCullin]

Well....

My dad is college educated, spent most of his life a blue collar worker, building himself up. My mom never went to college.

My brother has a degree and is white collar. I don't, but I'm a professional also. My gf has more education on paper than I do . Her family has white collar parents, a white collar sister (with a blue collar boyfriend), one brother unemployed (disability, will never be gainfully employed), one brother working a blue collar job, and one still in high school.

I guess I just don't care what people do for a living or what kind of job they have, more the people than the job that interests me. That said, I'm not a fan of people who have no class - which is irrespective of the amount of money they have. I'm an equal opportunity hater

[b75]

I think overall people who have a post secondary school education tend to have more in common with each other, when it comes to the emphasis they place on certain aspects of life than their H.S. educated counterpart may; b/c of their own different life experiences that cultivated them into the adults they became. For example, my family valued a college education; similarly if I have children a post secondary level of education will be emphasized as an important necessity in life and would be viewed as a major issue if left unpursued. Other people who maybe didn't have that background would have a different life view perhaps on the level of importance that needs be placed on getting a degree. Additionally, I think that sometimes when I compare the conversations I have had with the white collar professionals vs. the blue collar professionals I have dated, I tend to find I had more to talk about in common with the white collar professionals. That is not to say that some of the blue collar professionals I have dated were not perfectly nice men, some even more so then their white collar counterparts & some even made more money (the income level of a plumber or an electrician or even a builder can be pretty decent). But there is a certain level of understanding that I think people with similar backgrounds are able to forge when taking their relationship to a more serious, committed level. I'm not saying that is the rule, rather just making a general observation.

[Tzaphkiel]

i have met waaaaay more intellectual snobs who squirm at being with someone they consider "less than", than I have "blue collar types with a chip on their shoulder."

[robertpolyglot]

Originally Posted by faina00

Yes and no. Many people cheat, you don't have to marry for money to do so.

And the rich powerful guy is not necessarily in a different social class than a stripper. Many rich powerful men came from lower class backgrounds themselves and that is who they are naturally attracted to.

Basically what I am trying to say is

Money does not equal a higher socioeconomic class. Neither does education.
Both are possible tools to use to rise into a different class but they are not equivalent.

No one ever said that education or money equals class. Oftentimes it doesn't. However, once you've catapulted yourself somewhere, you don't generally step back. In fact, there is so much stratification among college types, too. I went to a small private religious university. You think the people who became doctors and dentists from the biology/pre-health curriculum (a fraternity in itself) hang around their peers who were studying business or engineering and making less than 1/2 what they do? They don't. So, yes, some very well paid professionals have a "chip on their shoulder," too.

I was quoting about the extremes (the rich suburbanite and pool guy, the doctor and the stripper). The rich powerful man, whether he is self-made or educated, that came from humble roots isn't going to date a stripper. They're just not. Get real.

"Pretty Woman" was a movie, it's rarely reality.

[Reactionary]

When I wore a suit in DC, girls rarely looked at me; I also had a side gig wearing a chef jacket - girls would come up and introduce themselves.

I also used to lie at clubs and tell girls I worked construction

Somehow 'Operations Research' or 'Statistician' didn't strike a chord...

[Huckleberry3911948]

unemployment is a big turnoff for me. i think work is good for everybody and builds character. blue or white collar are ok. work is good.