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Another “unskilled labor” rant

As someone who currently drives a 530hp truck hauling 25 tons for 600 miles every night and navigating through multitudes of obstacles and winding roads I find it a little cute to be referred to as unskilled. I have many licenses and dangerous goods certificates but none of it counts as skilled apparently because I don't work in an office. I've also got experience operating large tractors with various implements like hay bailers and seed drills, as well as combine harvesters. This is supposedly unskilled too. Every debate about the unskilled term always descends into the brain surgeon vs McDonalds burger flipper argument. Its more like a sliding scale with WAY too many jobs lumped into that unskilled category because they don't involve a degree. That's precisely why I hate the term- I think more and more things are going to be slowly added under the list of unskilled labor…


  1. As someone who currently drives a 530hp truck hauling 25 tons for 600 miles every night and navigating through multitudes of obstacles and winding roads I find it a little cute to be referred to as unskilled. I have many licenses and dangerous goods certificates but none of it counts as skilled apparently because I don't work in an office. I've also got experience operating large tractors with various implements like hay bailers and seed drills, as well as combine harvesters. This is supposedly unskilled too.
  2. Every debate about the unskilled term always descends into the brain surgeon vs McDonalds burger flipper argument. Its more like a sliding scale with WAY too many jobs lumped into that unskilled category because they don't involve a degree. That's precisely why I hate the term- I think more and more things are going to be slowly added under the list of unskilled labor until only the CEOs, and maybe some software devs coding robots remain part of the skilled category.

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