Blue Collar, White Collar, Striped?

Chief Auto tech, shop owner, office manager, & service writer. Collar changes color frequently, & unexpectedly throughout the day. Oh yea & receptionist too. A C

Couldn't say it any better myself. By day, Chief Scientist of a tech company. By night, excavator, mechanic, plumber, woodsman...

I try to wear a different color shirt everyday.


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Stagehand

Nice work if you can get it. How did you luck into that line of work/?

I was on the stage crew in high school. At 15 I decided that I was gonna do this. Now I am 42 and living a 15 year old's dream. I went to college for it for 3 semesters. Dropped out and went to work. How did I "luck into" it? I showed up on time, worked hard, and showed bosses that I was the best guy on the crew. I had some good breaks too. Plenty of work here in NYC. Problem is that I have to stay near NYC to make a decent living. No house in the country surrounded by woods for a stagehand.

My collar is white sometimes but that's only 'cause that's what color the dirt is at work. At home I run my little (and I mean little...) small engine repair business but there's grease on my keyboard/mouse so no "striped" designation for me.

I work in an office as a nuclear tech but I also work with my hands because I start IVs and make people radioactive...so I am a combo deal..and supersize that...lol

I am the lone "other" because I like being different.

As an equipment operator/ deck hand/ farm hand / teacher/ dish washer / chef/ short order cook/ maids helper/ washing machine attendant/ co recreation coordinator / phew! Im tired .....zzzzz.....oh yeah stripped I guess but I share most of the managerial aspects of my life with my wife! But Im really just middle management bossed by my 4 year old daughter and 7 year old son.

Sent from my rooted and eclipse running X2--thanks nitro-- if im posting on here I'm probably supposed to be working! I can't help im addicted to HEARTH.COM!

I'm thinking that would be NO collar.

Lol choker collar!

Sent from my rooted and eclipse running X2--thanks nitro-- if im posting on here I'm probably supposed to be working! I can't help im addicted to HEARTH.COM!

Mostly white collar (remote programming and diagnostics on PBX phone systems) but every now and then I get some stripes and head to the field for a local service call.

Make that 3. At work, sadly, I am dilbert. When you call support and India or China answers, yes that MY fault.

At home Im a woodcutter, carpenter, painter, auto mechanic, stereo repairman, computer tech, electrician, plumber, landscaper, cook or whatever else the boss, a.k.a. Mrs Jeremy, is asking for today.

White collar.
Used to be Ring-around-the-collar (housewife).
I aspire to be retired. (No collar?)

Grey collared?

Oh, so YOOOOUUUUUUR the guy I wanna choke when I get one of those guys on the phone....

hahahahaaaa . Actually I don't work in tech support, my job is internal to R&D. But not surprisingly we have large operations in India and China (and Israel, and Russia, and Germany, and the UK and all over USA and Canada but I digress).

Years ago I had to face a choice - stay purely technical and probably get laid off eventually, or take an offered management track role and work my way up. It saddens me that I have to manage offshore teams that are doing the job I and many of my friends used to do here, but when you have to make a living sometimes you cant be so idealistic....

I guess I fall in the striped bucket. I'll do anything from design and code software, to install machines, to work on "strategy" type stuff. Pretty wide variety.

As the old saying goes, there are the type that shower before work and the type that shower after. A lot of days I have to do both.

Maybe that's how I should have worded the poll

Blue, Owner of a one truck business. I go around collect milk at the farms, and deliver to plant. Also tow an open top chip trailer in between that job. I haul sawdust/shavings/bark in Maine and New Brunswick Canada.

The collar I'm wearing right now is battleship grey.

Nuclear Security - Army before that

I traded in my white collar and a tie (attorney) for a no collar t-shirt (owner of a coffee roastery and then caregiver for disabled son)
about a decade ago. No regrets, although the work is harder on many days.