I wouldn't sweat about it.

In my ~40mln country the construction sector (that includes renovation, landscaping etc.) outnumbers the IT sector 3:1.

Lead times for having things done around here are ridiculous, which is why I believe the former can absorb half of the latter with little change in salaries.

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Der_Einzige 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah skilled blue collar labor is insanely stupidly expensive. I do want a flood of them so that the current scammers in most of the skilled blue collars get devalued.

No, you do not get to charge 500 USD to change an anode rod on a water heater if I have the damn rod. That's a 20 min job MAX and the only reason I'm calling you is that putting on the stupid plumbing tape at the end is annoying for me

I understand guild warfare and the hatred of labor unions the moment that I have to deal yet another actually-should-be-in-jail levels of scamming from yet another dentist.

Y'all think that AI researchers should go to jail for hallucinated citations? Dental surgeons should go to jail for selling homeopathic remedies (ask me how I know!)

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anal_reactor 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm wondering if I get fired from my corporate middle-do-nothing job I could become a skilled blue collar worker. My point is, someone who both at the same time can put tiles and won't fuck up the pattern could be very valuable. I assume one year maximum to learn ins and outs.

	▲	jansper39 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why would you assume you can become a skilled blue collar worker in a year?