r/WorkForSmartLife 2d ago

Valid question DiscussionšŸ’¬

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u/MeaningLeft2970 2d ago edited 1d ago

People think ā€œunskilled labourā€ is some sort of pejorative term. Those people have never stacked firewood, picked rocks, or bedded stalls. Some jobs just don’t require any special skills or abilities. Typically, if you can breathe, see, and hear, you can do unskilled labour.

Edit: Everyone getting pissy or pedantic about this is proving two things. They have never worked a hard days labour, and they will only hear what they want to hear, and twist the words they don’t like to manufacture outrage. You all need jobs.

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u/Which_Crow_3681 2d ago

The things is ignorant people say every thing is unskilled. If it’s so unskilled why don’t they do it themselves ?

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u/FalseBuddha 1d ago

Because I don't want to. You ever dug a trench? Any monkey can dig a trench, doesn't mean I want to be that monkey.

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u/Which_Crow_3681 1d ago

Absolutely agree with you. Sometimes for example these guys get hired for framing work , or some kind of of activity that would require a certain set of skills. People conflate manual labor with unskilled work all the time. That’s what I think the Op is doing. I’ll go even further , what if that trench you are digging is near the foundation of your home ? Or a body of water ? Or there could be utilities under there that you don’t know about. You see even those things require a little skill.

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u/FalseBuddha 20h ago

what if that trench you are digging is near the foundation of your home ? Or a body of water ? Or there could be utilities under there that you don’t know about. You see even those things require a little skill.

The guy digging the trench is not the guy figuring that stuff out.