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Definitely blue collar. Nothing sexier than a man that can just aggressively take over and fix your alternator, mow the lawn, repair your roof, and lay down the pipes!!!
I just worked an awards luncheon for the university's facilities workers. Yes, they were all wonderfully handy, but there wasn't one guy in the room that could be considered sexy. We've also had several new buildings go up around campus in the last two years. So I see the construction crews walking around campus. Again, not one of them is eye candy. In addition, blue collar men don't age very well. If they worked outside most of their career, they never used sun block, so their faces are prematurely wrinkled. And most of the older blue collar types have beer bellies.
And I hope that there are no young men reading this thread thinking that if they choose a blue collar life over studying hard at school, they will have better luck getting women.
Ladies...who do you think is sexier, a blue collar worker or one in a suit and tie who sits behind their desk all day? I personally think a blue collar worker.
I just worked an awards luncheon for the university's facilities workers. Yes, they were all wonderfully handy, but there wasn't one guy in the room that could be considered sexy. We've also had several new buildings go up around campus in the last two years. So I see the construction crews walking around campus. Again, not one of them is eye candy. In addition, blue collar men don't age very well. If they worked outside most of their career, they never used sun block, so their faces are prematurely wrinkled. And most of the older blue collar types have beer bellies.
And I hope that there are no young men reading this thread thinking that if they choose a blue collar life over studying hard at school, they will have better luck getting women.
You love stereotypes don't you? It seems like your whole world is one big walking stereotype. That must mean you don't know any people.
I work in the office of a Fortune 500 company. None of the male managers are eye candy. A lot of them are fat, especially the higher ups (they're older too). One always has sunburn because he spends so much time on the gold courses. The only one who might even pass for cute is the assistant sales manager.
Not every place you are is going to be crawling with attractive people.
The guy from Dish Network who installs cable around here though is cute. Not all masculine and beefed up like the construction guys on TV but on a scale of 1-10 I'd def say he was a 8 or 9.
There are plenty of men (myself included) that fall somewhere in the middle. I'm not blue collar, but I'm not sitting in the corner office on the top floor either. I've always made a point to dress professional during my career. I've got my rugged side too at home. I do my own repairs and maintenence and am not afraid to get my hands dirty. Personally, I like the balance.
There's a sizable population like this and its not all black and white. I'm sure miu has some cort of critique for guys like me.
There are plenty of men (myself included) that fall somewhere in the middle. I'm not blue collar, but I'm not sitting in the corner office on the top floor either. I've always made a point to dress professional during my career. I've got my rugged side too at home. I do my own repairs and maintenence and am not afraid to get my hands dirty. Personally, I like the balance.
There's a sizable population like this and its not all black and white. I'm sure miu has some cort of critique for guys like me.
MoNative34, you're the whole package! I had to giggle when I read your post and then looked at your screen name. My apologies in advance for promoting another stereotype, but you Missourians just love being in the middle and you refuse to see the world in black and white, don't you?
I can agree that blue collar and white collar are very old labels. I grew up blue collar if I had to put a label on it. All the men in my family worked with their hands but their jobs required skill. They did not attend college but put in the years of learning and training as one would through formal education. My husband is skilled trades and it took him 10 yrs to earn his journeyman status. His job requires complex math, strong attention to detail and heavy concentration because quite frankly he could be killed on his job. He makes a good living and earns the same wage as our neighbor who is a nurse. Some might say my husband doesnt deserve to make as much as someone that went to nursing school but those same people expect the brakes to work on the airplane they are flying on too.
My husband works with the engineers who design processes and they need his input on whether or not the stuff actually works. My husband also works with the "blue collar" workers that run the low level machinery that does not require much skill. So my husband actually has a difficult time with this balance because he can relate to the "educated" engineers on the thought process but also understands the demands of a physical job from the floor workers. But culturally these two worlds do not mesh well. If he spends too much time with the engineers, the guys on the floor think he is a snob. If he spends too much time with the guys on the floor, the engineers think he spends too much time with the rough necks. We live in a society that loves labels.
So to answer the OP's question, a man that is intelligent and good with his hands is quite sexy IMO.
And I hope that there are no young men reading this thread thinking that if they choose a blue collar life over studying hard at school, they will have better luck getting women.
You really do have the elite attitude. I have known quite a few people that studied hard at school and are happy successful trades people and small business owners. Whether they are sexier than the so called white-collar men I would not know because I do not find men attractive. I will say their luck with the ladies seems good. My brother, who builds homes for a living, used to get any girl he went after before finding the one in a million that he married.
You however are not even talking about white-collar when you get into Academia. The Stereotype on academic males is not that of being sexy. Mostly they are thought of as socially awkward.
Definitely blue collar. Nothing sexier than a man that can just aggressively take over and fix your alternator, mow the lawn, repair your roof, and lay down the pipes!!!
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