Originally Posted by
bluespoon
AI isn’t all there yet….. Our job is definitely not white collar. Sure, it’s technical, but we’re definitely manual laboring the plane up into the sky. Also you really can’t be a white collar job if you can be replaced in about 2 hours or less. Not sure why it’s a touchy subject, Blue or white, what matters is how much money you’re making.
We are manual laboring to a degree, but the professional part comes into play when we use judgement to avoid undesired circumstances, or when the chit hits the fan.
If a welder gets into a situation where he's not sure if he should cut into that structural piece, he's not going to use judgment, he's going to stop and ask his boss, who will call a civil engineer.
As I said, white collar is a bit of a misnomer for us, but Professional is not. Collar color doesn't matter, but professionalism does.