blue collar workers

Well I spent 31 years at General Motors Truck and Bus factory in Pontiac, Michigan..U.A.W. Local 594. I only found about 3-4 audiophiles like myself in all those years but no shortage of music lovers. The boom-boxes blasted all day up and down the lines.

Dave

I'm an electrician for a municipality. Overtime $$ are spent on toys, and i am willing to sacrafice more than half of my weekends to being on call in order to keep my many hobbies interesting.

I normally work third shift, and tend to listen to classical music at work which raises more than a few eyebrows when people walk by my truck.

Construction Superintendent / Project Manager on Bridges, Dams, Power Plants, etc. Started as Quality Control (rock counter) in a materials lab.

Thorman: My Grandfather was foreman in a grinding wheel shop, the Abrasive Company, in the Philadelphia area. He worked there during the first depression and went under with "White Lung" disease.

Myself was a surface grinder in a machine tool shop for three years. Truing the wheels (with diamonds) fills the air with stuff you don't want to breath and the working coolant is rather nasty too.

I've been an IBM mainframe programmer for the last 18 years until the great american sellout of the tech sector. Only manglers (managers) and necessary technicians (doctors, liars, accountants, etc.) are allowed to make a good living, I guess.

My new job is still white collar, however; I throw baggage at an airport now (and DO where a white shirt!).

At least, like Bill Quateman says: "I've got my music..."

I drive a big rig & owned my own for 10 yrs.

In my travels across the US & Canada I've been able to compile a list of music that I would never have heard staying local. For instance, I was just going through some old notebooks & discovered I had written down PJ Harvey & Peter Elliot from around 1992. I don't have a clue who Peter Elliot is though!