In the book, How to Tell When You're Tired, Reg Theriault discussed the various aspects of working and how they impact different kinds of people. In chapter six Theriault specifically focuses on the relationship between younger and older workers. _________Although he states that older workers accept work as their fate, younger workers have their heads stuck in dream clouds and education is viewed as the vaccination against them he implies something different; work is a fate and both the white and blue collar workers always see the "grass greener on the other side of the fence."
Theriault speaks of how older workers are able to accept that work is their fate but young workers somehow believe that they can break that cycle and start a business for themselves. He then spoke of how parents try to raise their children with the belief that education will set them free. In p
Theriault has a really great perspective about work. He sees the ups and downs of having an education but more importantly is the fact that he saw past that into what he believed. Today you can go into any field of work but when he was working options like that weren't often offered to him. He saw past what others believed (the differences b/t blue and white collar work) and realized that work is fate and we are just the pons in the game. With education we are armed and with the right moves can take the working game into our advantage.
arents eyes they see education as a door that allows you to pass through to the middle class. He then tells of how education will allow you to also move up to white collar work. Although he states that common thought is that white collar work is better than blue collar, he also mention that when a longshoremen open up six-hundred job openings, out of the the fourteen thousand applicants a majority of t
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