Blue Collar Brilliance Analysis
In “Blue Collar Brilliance”, the author, Mike Rose, expressed multiple reasons why a blue-collar worker is intelligent and capable to participate in a Democratic society (Web). He challenged the bias of today’s world that lower-class jobs that do not require a degree mean the workers are not smart. He started out sharing the experiences of his mother and uncle who worked blue-collar jobs and showed various skills that took time and intelligence to develop. He continues his essay sharing his findings of other similar jobs he studied. He expressed different kind of skills from physical dexterity and tool-use competency to rhetorical skills and financial managing that these workers take time and effort to develop. I agree with him since my father,
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My whole purpose of my job is to fix doors, light, faucets, and other items that need maintenance. Given the circumstances at times, I am put in positions when I will not have a certain tool to do the job or I can only work in a certain section because someone’s desk may be in the way. The job needs to get done either way so having the mentality of, “How can I do this?” as well as a solid maintenance background is the only way of accomplishing situations like that. Mike Rose in “Blue Collar Brilliance” stated, “The big difference between the psychologist’s laboratory and the workplace is that in the former the problems are isolated and in the latter they are embedded in the real-time flow of work with all its messiness and social complexity” (Rose Web). I relate that point with my circumstances because the only difference between my job and a scientist is that their problems are isolated and mine are happening in the real-time flow of set shift. I would say this skill is more of perspective on life that grows on me. With that mentality, all the aspects of my life are benefitted because I am always trying to see what I can improve. It helps me recognize issues around me that I may be able to give to the government for them to have a better picture of what is going on. Is not that what a Democratic society
My whole purpose of my job is to fix doors, light, faucets, and other items that need maintenance. Given the circumstances at times, I am put in positions when I will not have a certain tool to do the job or I can only work in a certain section because someone’s desk may be in the way. The job needs to get done either way so having the mentality of, “How can I do this?” as well as a solid maintenance background is the only way of accomplishing situations like that. Mike Rose in “Blue Collar Brilliance” stated, “The big difference between the psychologist’s laboratory and the workplace is that in the former the problems are isolated and in the latter they are embedded in the real-time flow of work with all its messiness and social complexity” (Rose Web). I relate that point with my circumstances because the only difference between my job and a scientist is that their problems are isolated and mine are happening in the real-time flow of set shift. I would say this skill is more of perspective on life that grows on me. With that mentality, all the aspects of my life are benefitted because I am always trying to see what I can improve. It helps me recognize issues around me that I may be able to give to the government for them to have a better picture of what is going on. Is not that what a Democratic society