Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "WTF Do CEOs Actually Do All Day?" video.

What's funny is white collar people very often have a snobbish attitude when it comes to people in the trades, yet we often make the same money or more and the environment is so much less toxic. You're not pressured to think a certain way, or be a certain way and if you are phony and a kiss ass, you would get called out immediately. We don't play that. Plus, there's a sense of satisfaction when you physically create something. I actually get more satisfaction when complete a task than I do when I make money in the stock market because numbers are just abstract concepts, but I can take a look at that thing that I installed that looks fantastic and I enjoy it. Even something relatively ordinary like doing really nice tile work in a shower. You finish up and clean it up nice and it looks beautiful and there's a sense of real satisfaction to that. Nothing phoney about it. You either did a good job or you did not, end of story. And people around you will praise you or criticize you based on how well you objectively did, not based on if they think that the criticism or praise will help their relationship with the executive assistant regional manager, ha ha.
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@diamondfailer11 bullying of young employees in blue collar fields? That sounds like snobbish fear mongering to me. The trades are a meritocracy. There is way less politics in the trades than there is in an office. It's a meritocracy which means everyone is far more tolerant as well. And people being honest with you is not the same as bullying. It's not fake like an office building. Nobody gives a damn what your political ideology is. They just care if you work hard and are good at your job. I am happy that academia frowns upon it because that means there are less people in it which means more money for me.
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@VYBEKAT depending on where you live, six figures can also be barely making ends meet. I live in Vancouver Canada, which is one of the most expensive cities on planet earth, and $100,000 a year doesn't mean too terribly much when a one bedroom apartment can cost you up to $3k a month in a regular condo building. Go upscale and all bets are off. The prices are completely insane.
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If you have a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars, you would not hesitate to give $15 million a year. Does somebody who you feel can come in and increase your company's profits by 5%. It's all relative.If you have a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars, you would not hesitate to give $15 million a year. Does somebody who you feel can come in and increase your company's profits by 5%. It's all relative. Think about their pay as a percentage of how much money they can make the company. That incredibly good line worker can't increase the company's fortunes even a tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of what a good CEO can.
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@mememan9890 interesting. it probably also depends on the trade. i’m with a general contractor and I deal with all of the trades equally and in project after project you can usually tell just by meeting someone what types of trades they are in. The elevator installers are very different from the drywall guys, who are different from the electricians.
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@anthonynix9659 Thanks, and I agree. It's okay to like the people who actually build and maintain our necessary infrastructure.
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@kf6pfk I am happy to be in the trades because robots and AI won't be touching what I do in my lifetime, that's for sure. What I do is not routine and easily replicable. I'm thankful that I don't do low and bookkeeping tasks or accounting or low level lawyer work. A lot of that stuff's gonna get automated very soon. Good luck finding a robot or algorithm to reconfigure and renovate an old house and do something modern. Good luck figuring out all of the intricacies in figuring out how to "make it work". In construction in hundred million dollar jobs, there are constant issues and problems with the drawings that have to be figured out by humans. There's not a chance that a building will be able to be designed by, and built by automation within my lifetime. We are light years away from that.
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