He makes a really good point here. Me and many of my friends are musicians and such, and it seems manual labour scares the shit out of creative people. Manual labour is viewed as something for the mass and the less sophisticated and is therefore not worthy an artist. That kind of bugs me. I’ve always worked hard, almost found something dignified about it. The intellectual elite wants to keep their hands clean. No dirty nails, no no.
Hope that makes some sense. Kind of hard expressing myself in english.
Most of my work over the past two decades has been in the service sector dealing with people who’ve used their heads more than their hands. The sad thing is that few of them realize that the food on their tables, the computers in their offices, the gasoline they put in their hummers, indeed the roofs over their heads are all made possible by real people doing really dirty jobs. Mike is good at pointing out that hands, in addition to pulling money out of a wallet, are good at making money to put into it in the first place.
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He makes a really good point here. Me and many of my friends are musicians and such, and it seems manual labour scares the shit out of creative people. Manual labour is viewed as something for the mass and the less sophisticated and is therefore not worthy an artist. That kind of bugs me. I’ve always worked hard, almost found something dignified about it. The intellectual elite wants to keep their hands clean. No dirty nails, no no.
Hope that makes some sense. Kind of hard expressing myself in english.
Peace.
yes, and there is that disturbing phrase which has now become commonplace….”doing the jobs Americans won’t do….”
It used to be that there was no job Americans wouldn’t do.
And whatever happened to kids mowing lawns and picking crops in the summer for spending money?
I’m a craftsman and have been for all of my working life. It’s a very satisfying way to live.
Most of my work over the past two decades has been in the service sector dealing with people who’ve used their heads more than their hands. The sad thing is that few of them realize that the food on their tables, the computers in their offices, the gasoline they put in their hummers, indeed the roofs over their heads are all made possible by real people doing really dirty jobs. Mike is good at pointing out that hands, in addition to pulling money out of a wallet, are good at making money to put into it in the first place.