White collar jobs vs blue collar jobs - Chrysler's example of cutting substantial white collar jobs as an example of value of blue collar jobs

Learn from current ongoing situation for your own future choices in your own life!

According to various circulating news sources, including CNN and other resources, a large number of job loss at Chrysler are discussed / planned, the numbers vary depending on sources, up to 25% white collar job cuts at Chrysler are mentioned. Why white collar and no blue collar jobs?

White collar jobs are useless jobs for administration only. White collar jobs can be created and maintained when excess money / profits are created and available. White collar jobs are costing money without creating real value. A typical white collar job like secretary or various office or computer jobs create nothing that can be sold or directly converted into profits. White collar employees typically administer the products or services by the workers in a factory.

Hence true value is created by simple workers, by blue collar employees. No car manufacturer or other industrial manufacturer ever can live and prosper without real workers.

The essence is that all white collar employees usually may get much high wages for much less work and far much less stress or danger in jobs. In times of global financial crisis however, when a manufacturer or employer, en entire industry is in danger of bankruptcy, the first thing to dump are all excessive cost factors. The first way to sanitize an industry or company of any size, including an entire nation, is to reduce expenses, reduce overhead to the minimum possible or all the way down to zero.

Truly useful and truly valuable products of real value to customers need no administration, no promotion, no representation. Useful, helpful and really valuable resources and products are in demand and sold as a result of excellency in quality and usefulness.

The current situation of Chrysler shows the vulnerability of white collar easy money jobs you may qualify for after college. Higher pay but no real qualification, no real skills to be of true value within production lines.

Value is created by using hands and body, by getting dirty or even injured from time to time during hard and dangerous work. Value only can be converted into money used / needed to pay bills.

A real blue collar worker needs no college, even no high school, but a blue collar worker may need to know welding, using all types of machinery in modern production plants. He may need to know all the materials sed in processing and master all the tools. A production worker ( blue collar ) typically is hard working 8-9 hrs per each day. No coffee break, no chit chat, no Internet surfing during working hours. Just productivity fro first to last minutes each day.

I spent years in production and construction sites as blue collar doing jobs blue collars do just as a.m. I am happy to have learned real work. It makes me feel strong and useful even many decades later. A blue collar can repair his own car, repair fisher boats, create energy supply, do the plumbing at home, repair roofing, fixing washing machines and much more. A blue collar can be useful and helpful in his entire neighborhood and beyond.

Blue collars may earn less - but survive centuries to come, survive all crisis or even possible future wars and disasters on this planet. Because blue collars are needed to repair all damage done by politicians during war or repair all disaster damage and destroyed infrastructure after disasters or wars. Have you ever seen an office worker, a computer programmer or game playing office boy repairing New Orleans after disaster or destroyed villages, houses, bridges, etc after our last Tsunami in Asia or after China's recent major earthquake ?

Hence: If you are young, or middle of your life and think about changing job. Think twice, think about above job selection criteria, look at today's crisis situation and learn about the usefulness or uselesness of different industries and jobs. Its better to have dirty hands but a happy family with full stomach in a warm heated house then to enjoy life in office and fear lifelong job loss. Sooner or later office white collars always will loose their job Because in heaven we have only real workers doing real jobs - NO white collars, NO administration, NO management of any kind !!!

Avoid future problems, be ready to work harder, better and more. Be prepared and invest time and efforts to improve your own professional qualifications and suefulness. You may need it possibly sooner than you think.n Being prepared for future gives you strength to know your future secured.

Love and Bliss

hans