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Are you sure that you're going to be happy with a guy who has no ambition? While you're making progress in life, professionally, personally, emotionally, and meeting new, interesting educated, attractive, great people are you seriously going to be happy when he comes home from a job bagging groceries or flipping burgers or pouring cement and wants to watch NASCAR or sip on a beer? Just me but I would never recommend anybody get married in their early 20's.
How did you get from "he has less education than I do" to "a guy who has no ambition"? You paint the guy to be some kind of drunken dropout slob, when all I can see is that he probably doesn't have a college degree.
Real man? There are finer examples of men than those who lay bricks, drink beer, and have no ambition. How is that going to work when you're all grown up and a real LADY asks, "so what do you do for a living?"
Cement worker: "I'm a c'ment pourer and went up to 12th grade!"
Real Lady: "You know I just realized, I have to be somewhere tomorrow morning." The end.
Let's be honest. Most women want rich athletes, doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and other professionals. We could put a poll up and I bet I'd be right.
First of all, O clairvoyant one, who imparted the bullcrap knowledge unto you that states 'real men don't drink beer, lay bricks, or pour cement?'
You probably just indirectly insulted a LOT of guys here on City Data...and what is this stuff about 'REAL LADIES'? There's another stereotype, laying in the weeds...and you could, indeed, put up a poll, and you'd probably be 'deceased incorrect' AKA dead wrong...
And also, for sake of argument, I work for a printing ink company...my dad was a WW2 pilot, bus driver, and firefighter...his dad, and my Mom's dad, both busted their a**es for many years working in foundries and factories...my youngest brother is a firefighter, and my 2 older brothers are retired cops...the thread running through all that is, myself included, NONE of those guys were 'doctors, lawyers, rich athletes, businessmen, or other professionals'---they/we all met and married wonderful women who could give a pint of baboon sweat what they did/do for a living...current generation STILL married to said women...
So, as Tommy Lee Jones said to the obviously misinformed cop in 'The Fugitive'---wanna change your bulls**t story (theory) now?...just beacuse a guy isn't one of the 'chosen' or 'the landed gentry', and maybe hoists a brewski or two, or loves to watch Dale Jr or Kyle or Jimmie do the NASCAR do, doesn't make him ANY LESS of a man, polls and stereotypes be damned
Real man? There are finer examples of men than those who lay bricks, drink beer, and have no ambition. How is that going to work when you're all grown up and a real LADY asks, "so what do you do for a living?"
Cement worker: "I'm a c'ment pourer and went up to 12th grade!"
Real Lady: "You know I just realized, I have to be somewhere tomorrow morning." The end.
Let's be honest. Most women want rich athletes, doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and other professionals. We could put a poll up and I bet I'd be right.
Well, I don't know about your area but here mason's make bucks, and if there on Federal jobs they make BIG bucks.
Heck I've known refuse drivers who clear 100K. I don't see how you can equate a skilled trade with no ambition.
Guys who work with their hands didn't mean to start a s*** storm!LMAO....... I just found his arrogant post offensive and posted a counter opinion on the subject. LOL..... We are worthless idiots? They don't say that when their stuff breaks or they need help!LOL.......
Skilled workers are worth their weight in gold.There are men out there who prefer to do such work and it is not because they are uneducated or lack wisdom.My brother is that kind of man.He likes the heavy lifting type jobs but had to give it up do to a medical issue.Just because you don't have a desk job does not make you any less of a man.
The sad thing is there are a number of people that really think the way he does. They go to college either right out of high school or in their early twenties...they think they know everything and are better than people that didn't go to college. He doesn't even know anything about women, poor guy. I see women all the time that like the more rugged guys with blue collar jobs.
Sounds to me like you've outgrown this friend of yours OP. She sounds like the type of person who either isn't aware of or doesn't care about boundaries. Enjoy your new relationship with this guy, and spend less time with this friend of yours. She sounds like the type who enjoys sabotaging relationships. Bitter because she can't find a man of her own.
The sad thing is there are a number of people that really think the way he does. They go to college either right out of high school or in their early twenties...they think they know everything and are better than people that didn't go to college.
Meh, we know that is not so! Who calms their wives down and makes them happy while they scratch their fuzzy little heads? Easy killer, don't have a melt down! LOL........
Skilled workers are worth their weight in gold.There are men out there who prefer to do such work and it is not because they are uneducated or lack wisdom.My brother is that kind of man.He likes the heavy lifting type jobs but had to give it up do to a medical issue.Just because you don't have a desk job does not make you any less of a man.
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Originally Posted by wanderlust76
The sad thing is there are a number of people that really think the way he does. They go to college either right out of high school or in their early twenties...they think they know everything and are better than people that didn't go to college. He doesn't even know anything about women, poor guy. I see women all the time that like the more rugged guys with blue collar jobs.
I've resisted posting on this thread just because of the ignorance of the OP's friend. I've seen many blue collar type of jobs make a ****load more money than other white collar "'professional" jobs. Its also true the other way around as well.
The bottom line is this. Not everyone is cutout or wants to be in a desk job type of job. Many smart and talented people are into the "doingness" of many blue collar jobs. Many other people are less handy and therefore a white collar desk job is more appropriate.
A perfect example is this. You have your type of people who desire to scale a mountain, others want to plan and or oversee the scaling of the mountain, some like to design and figure out how to solve problems in said mountain scaling, and those who like to makes sure all is well with the individuals who do the scaling.
Get it??
Its a synergy, no individual piece is better then the whole.
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Okay...Time For Yet Another Reality Check
"You know I just realized, I have to be somewhere tomorrow morning." The end.
I just found his arrogant post offensive and posted a counter opinion on the subject. LOL..... We are worthless idiots? They don't say that when their stuff breaks or they need help!LOL.......
