I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood.

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  • Yawnder@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, it’s easy to dismiss manual jobs as “dumb stuff for non educated people”, but when we got off our high horses we realize we’re bigots and that they deserve any and all forms of respect.

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      9 months ago

      Who is saying that?

      There’s too much virtue signaling here. No engineer thinks poorly of the trades. That’s the point of the conversation.

      I just made a joke about how burger flippers can be called engineers, and I have a PhD.