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White collar work is mostly just a bunch of paper pushing make-work. I graduated with honors from university but am proud to be a trucker. Doing a man's job makes you feel like a man.
White collar work is mostly just a bunch of paper pushing make-work. I graduated with honors from university but am proud to be a trucker. Doing a man's job makes you feel like a man.
I really agree. There are days I want to ditch the suit, and build something or get behind the wheel of a big rig.
In fact, I helped a construction worker friend with some side jobs last year and it felt quite good. Hard work though!
What if your Dad had thought, "Oh this woman is so beneath my status" when he met your mother?
I don't think men really care a lot. However, sometimes he mentions about the time she was poor and he took her out of that status; how her life changed when she met him.
I have 8 years of university and my husband has about 1 year of college (he is a police officer so I'm not sure if that counts as "blue collar").
These relationships can work out quite well but I think (and this is just an impression I get), it requires some humility on your part Having a few years of college doesn't make one an intellectual that can outsmart someone on topics, especially the soft majors.
For what it's worth, I can beat him when we watch Jeopardy, because I know the answers to obscure facts. That being said, when things go wrong at home, I can always trust him to fix it, whether it's dealing with tools or idiot customer service. He's probably more useful.
Especially if your degree is in tourism and culinary arts.
Especially if your degree is in tourism and culinary arts.
I will go back to psychology major afterward (to complete the last 2 yrs that is). That would make 2 degrees.
This major also contains hotel management and administration courses.
Hm, not to be mean or anything, but OP, do you live in a non-English speaking country or is your first language not English? Because based on your writing, I wouldn't have guessed that you're highly educated or come from a very intellectual background...
I'm currently studying in my home country and the grading system is different. The grading scale is 0-20 and 11 is the passing grade. My GPA is nearly 17, which would be the equivalent of an A- in US grading scale.
You seem to be making the assumption that all white collar professionals are affluent. I know construction workers who make more than college professors.
Yup, my uncle is a construction foreman who does offshore work and makes way more than my aunt who has a college degree. He pays all the bills.
These relationships can work out quite well but I think (and this is just an impression I get), it requires some humility on your part Having a few years of college doesn't make one an intellectual that can outsmart someone on topics, especially the soft majors.
I'm humble with him and never demanded that he goes to college. He once told my mother that he was happy in his workplace and has no plans about going to college.
However, once I'm at college (actually university) competition mode immediately starts. Sometimes I jokingly asked ''So what grade you got on the mid-term (or final) exam'' and they usually say a lower grade (14 or 15) and then I replied ''That's great, I got a 17, I beat you''. Though, there are other times I'm humble again but it depends. It's easier to have some humility when it's someone you really care about than with acquaintances or casual friends. I don't care for my classmates (I see them as competitors) as I do for J.
I'm humble with him and never demanded that he goes to college. He once told my mother that he was happy in his workplace and has no plans about going to college.
However, once I'm at college (actually university) competition mode immediately starts. Sometimes I jokingly asked ''So what grade you got on the mid-term (or final) exam'' and they usually say a lower grade (14 or 15) and then I replied ''That's great, I got a 17, I beat you''. Though, there are other times I'm humble again but it depends. It's easier to have some humility when it's someone you really care about than with acquaintances or casual friends. I don't care for my classmates (I see them as competitors) as I do for J.
J is street smart like you mentioned earlier.
I used to date this talented artist, he was way better than me, in every single way possible. My artworks look like dirt compare to his, but he never made me feel inferior.
I am also very competitive by nature. This is why I used to be in the college water polo team. I wanted to be the best and won every.single.time. But I realized that there will always be somebody better than me, why bother trying too hard?
I am sure if you are willing to do some soul searching, you will find out deep down, you perhaps are ashamed of J.
If he makes you happy, isn't that enough? Be honest with yourself, be honest with him. You owe that honesty to him and yourself.
I am sure if you are willing to do some soul searching, you will find out deep down, you perhaps are ashamed of J.
If he makes you happy, isn't that enough? Be honest with yourself, be honest with him. You owe that honesty to him and yourself.
Actually I'm not in competition mode at all when talking to J. I can put college and books aside and focus on our feelings for each other.
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Having a few years of college doesn't make one an intellectual that can outsmart someone on topics, especially the soft majors.
