• harmsy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Bro if everyone moves to the jobs that pay enough to live decently, very important jobs will not get done. Our society needs manual laborers to keep everything from falling apart.

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      6 months ago

      Also, the jobs that pay decently will start to not pay decently. And now we’re back at square one

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        6 months ago

        Actually worse than square one, because in this scenario, nobody’s picking up the trash.

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      6 months ago

      I make 120k a year installing carpets lol. I absolutely bust my ass but I make more than many people I know who went to college. My dad also installed carpets for 48 years before retiring at 71. I plan to retire sooner though lol but will work for many years to come and pump.up that IRA

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          We don’t use kickers much any more we use power stretchers so the wear on the knees is not that bad. Our backs hands and shoulders hurt more than our knees.

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            Ahh. My dad was briefly in the trade in the 70s/80s and still has the tools (kicker included) from the era.

            Watched him install a carpet once as a kid (as DIY, not a job…he had long moved on since then) and I couldn’t believe people could put that much trauma on their knees day in/day out for decades. Then a few years ago he installed another and just decided to rent the damn power stretcher. World of difference, he said.