If you got paid the exact same amount per hour/day

Why sit in an office watching another gorgeous day go by when you could be outside enjoying it?
Like coal mining? Or would that be black collar?
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It would depend on the job. But be it white collar or blue, it would have to be something where I'm doing something that's both intelectually and physically stimulating.
 
Several years ago, I was working in a bank in northern Alabama. The day before, they took a coworker out to a coal mine to show him how the operation worked. The next day, he was an hour early for work. An old time banker came in to the board room where we were working and said "You must have gone to the mine yesterday". When my buddy asked him how he knew, the old man said, "They took me out to the mine one time and I showed up early for work for the next 6 months".
 
I worked construction for a summer after my freshman year of college.

Did masonry work, started off the summer working on the SBC (now ATT Center) in San Antonio, then moved to smaller projects like pools and stone patios after that wound down.

Yes, it's cool to say "i built that," and I was in ridiculously good shape after that summer, and I got paid a lot because of the hours and overtime. It's easy to romanticize.

But waking up at 5 am and working 60 - 80 hours in the hottest parts of the summer got old, fast. I kept with it because i knew it was only a 3 month gig, and I was saving the money for a goal (to pay for study abroad).

It made me realize that I'd never want to do that for a living.

But at least I can lay my own stone patio and build retaining walls now. That's come in handy at my house.
 
They're building a 13-story building next to my workplace. I sometimes watch the workers from above and think it's cool they are building something that lasts. Same thing with highway workers. In my white collar job, there's always another project and another deadline, but nothing that leaves a lasting impression on the landscape or peoples' lives.

But I do like working sitting down in air-conditioned comfort.
 
I have been blessed/cursed to have both collars. Six years ago, I managed a hotel for Marriott in arlington and hated my guest w/ a passion. Now, I'm a Longshoreman in Houston. Yeah I make double the money, due to the unlimited overtime, but my body(feet) hate me. I would gladly take a paycut, just to go back and listen to some okie/arky complain about how expensive it is in the big city!

Not to mention I lost a fingertip!!
 
Player Personnel Director for the Dallas Cowboys. Someone asked me that when I was about 8 or 9, expecting fireman or astronaut as an answer and that is what I told him. Too bad it won't ever be true.
 
I like physical labor, but it would get old every day, all day - especially in summer. When I saw the premise, i figured it would be something like this:

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I took an advertising job in Chicago right after I graduated from UT and worked in the field for 2.5 years. They hours and pay sucked but we got lots of free parties, lunches, and dinners.

I decided to say **** this and moved to San Diego to learn the bar trade and eventually open my own place. I don't know if you consider the service industry blue collar but the hours and tax on your body is brutal and the business is shady. I did that for a few years and I couldn't wait to get back to Chicago and get another 9-5 WC job. I've never been so happy when I had my nights off again and live like life like all my friends.

Blue collar can look romantic but besides stocking a grocery store graveyard shift that was the most unhappy I've ever been.

The problem is that almost all jobs suck.
 
I was a waiter for a bit. There were some ups and downs. Yeah, Monday through Friday sounds nice, but if you hate your job, Sunday is a day of dread, not rest.

Waiting tables is something everyone should do once. Going out afterwards was fun, but necessary as well.
 
I too mowed lawns for a while, but I only did it for 3 years while I was in High School. It was perfect at the time. Worked 4-5hrs/day five days a week. Normal lawn mowing companies however worked sunrise to sunset non-stop 5-6 days a week.

If I could get paid my current white collar salary, and work 20-25 hours a week mowing lawns then I would do it. I wouldn't give up my white collar job to go work at a lawn mowing company.
 
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