Mike Rose's Blue Collar Brilliance

A young student in today’s society has been taught about earning their college degree and further education. With this education young students have the thinking that high class and have much respect. In fact, people equally hard for earning that degree. Also, in earning this degree parents invest a lot of money towards that high education. There is nothing wrong with getting a high degree. The respect for people who are in blue- collar jobs are extremely low. Mike Rose who wrote the article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance" wrote about his own personal experience. Ross writes about his family members who had blue collar jobs and how people treated them. People who are in white collared jobs have claimed that technology does not make people who are in the blue collar jobs use their intelligence and has to rely on this tool that they are using. Rose argued differently, it is who is operating the tools rather than the tool operating the person.

It is the person who is operating the tool, not the tool operating the person. Some people do not know how to work on electric things, other people do not know a thing about waitress. It takes certain people to learn these specialties. Blue collar workers are always learning new ways to do things. These workers always have to be working smart because they are always learning new tasks on the job. In many jobs, people have to be both “street smart” and book smart. Some people have so much intelligence that they do not know each situation because they go by the book. Nursing is a great example for this. People have to know how to deal with people as well and that is where people’s “street smarts” come into play. Blue collar jobs require many skills such as being able to multi-task, being able to read other people's emotions, and being able to always learn new