I’d say high rise iron workers seem the coolest. Think back to that black and white picture everyone has seen of the two guys sitting on a beam hundreds of feet up eating lunch.
Deep sea welding is pretty badass
I remember watching a documentary about someone who was welding under the ocean, and simultaneously inside of a empty undersea pipeline that they had to swim a ways down to reach the problem area. That’s too damn extreme for me. I would sign up to be a doordash driver who only delivers to the worst Karens before I put on a single flipper. :D. Crazy hardcore.
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I think glass makers are pretty cool. Casually risk 3rd degree burns every day.
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Hell yeah, I’ve been wanting to sign up for a glass blowing class. I think it would be so cool to have some self-blown glass on display.
Hard to beat those pictures
Id give honorable mention to linemen. Casually handling thousands of volts from the top of a bucket truck while traffic whizzes past is pretty badass. Plus responding to emergencies like hurricanes, tornadoes etc. Its also usually a union job.
Im just a wireman myself, I like to keep my shocks under 277V
I knew someone who did this kind of work. They don’t wait until the weather improves. They climb poles in 70mph winds with sideways blowing hail and lightning if that’s what needs to happen. That’s crazy hardcore!
Oh yeah. Waaay more guts than ive got. They make good money and by God they earn it
Linemen also have a cool song about them
Years ago I ran a pub quiz and one of the categories was “Name the song from this description of the lyrics”:
A low-level government employee abuses his access to national infrastructure to secretly spy on a woman he is obsessed with. He acknowledges that he has a unhealthy obsession and that he really should back off, but quickly managed to convince himself to carry on, assuring the audience that he is still spying on her.
I always thought he was an electrical worker and it was a love song to a power plant.
Always cracks me up when Ron Swanson sings this while stealing cable for April and Andy 🤣
We had a lineman up here get attacked by a cougar. Fought off the cat with a 4-inch pocketknife, got himself out of the bush and to a highway before getting a ride to the hospital.
Absolute badass.
Traditional blacksmith by far
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honestly, yeah
That’s insane
I’ve been told fork lift drivers fuck
Almost exclusively by fork lift drivers but they seem really convincing
You’re mishearing. They fork.
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I felt cool crushing garbage at a landfill. Gross as hell but garbage crusher feels like riding a boat on the ocean
Air Conditioning installation
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Do you count movie crews as ‘blue collar?’
F1 pit crews?
NASA mechanics?
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Film crew.
Because you’re getting paid specifically to see famous people naked.
Are we using the US version of blue collar? If so that usually means folks doing manual/maintenance labour that are not a part of the middle class.
I think the definition is anyone who does manual labor that doesn’t require a college degree.
A movie electrician can easily earn a six figure salary. Upper middle class.
Anything with a chainsaw
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Someone who operates giant fucking machinery.
You mean like a 40" vibrator, right?
Plumbers
Source: movies
Tug boat captain.
Driving one of those giant dump trucks you see at mining sites.
Machinist at NASA.
So many traditional blue collar jobs have connotations associated with them that make the workers irredeemably uncool.
But, machinists. I just love machining.
Yeah, machinists don’t judge when you start talking about being real into cnc
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