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Having looked it up I think my definition of 'blue collar' is a bit off. I'm British, so there is that, the term isn't in common use over here.

I figured it just included everything that wasn't in an office.

A decent amount of the stuff in your list is unskilled labour that I've done in the past and also hated. I mean, the fact you've switched between them all pretty much illustrates it - they're not careers, they're stuff you do for a bit of money to keep going until the next gig.

What do you guys call a job that isn't the sort of thing that anyone physically able can do (well) with a day's instruction, but isn't office based either?

Like, I can't imagine a car salesman is considered white collar? (Not that that's an example of my dream job...)



Blue collar job pretty much just means manual labour, although this definition gets stretched a little when you consider factory work where a machine performs the job and the worker pretty much just operates & oversees the machine. There are plenty of skilled blue collar jobs that you won't do with a day's worth of instruction.

Salesmen are as white collar as it gets.




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