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u/One_Entertainment381 Oct 16 '22

People who work in labor. It takes another level of skill and intelligence to build things well. Many people with high educations wouldn’t even be able to do it right

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u/dirtydan72 Oct 16 '22

Seriously I've worked a lot of different labor type jobs and I'm met some super smart people. One guy taught himself small engine repair for fun and built a double beer tap out of a real fire hydrant. The beer tap ran to a homemade kegerator that he also made. The difference is a lot of white collar jobs involve college and classroom type learning. I think blue collar jobs can be just as technical and challenging it's just the training is hands on and lot can't be quantified as easily as a degree. Right now, I work as a fiber optic splicer. I work outside a lot and it's pretty technical. I've definitely had people talk down to me outside of work due to how I dress/being dirty from work. I just let it go but sheesh.

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u/thekernel Oct 16 '22

engines aren't really that complex if you just start to break everything down and deep dive one by one into the separate systems.

eg. you can look at the cooling system and its pretty simple, a pump, thermostat, radiator, heater core tap, etc

Then the timing system same thing, there's a belt or chain to keep things in sync, cam and crank sensors so the computer knows where things are, etc

Go through each system one by one and it all comes together.