Are physician assistants blue collar?

[Anonymous]

Any desk job involving paper shuffling or computer work is by definition NOT blue collar.

Blue collar is working hard with your hands and showering after work because you're dirty, as in you have dirt or grease or pollen or wood shavings on your sweaty skin. Blue collar jobs are mostly done by men who are doing the heavy lifting to keep the world running.

This is not that, OP.

[Anonymous]

Embarrassing? Not at all. My friends mom went back to PA school when we were in high school. It was no joke though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any desk job involving paper shuffling or computer work is by definition NOT blue collar.

Blue collar is working hard with your hands and showering after work because you're dirty, as in you have dirt or grease or pollen or wood shavings on your sweaty skin. Blue collar jobs are mostly done by men who are doing the heavy lifting to keep the world running.

This is not that, OP.

Lots of medicine is "hand work." It's just "hand work" that requires a graduate degree to do. Procedures involve working with your hands. Running a code means working with your hands (and it's sweaty!) Examining patients means putting your hands on them. And I always shower after work. Patients are dirty. I don't want to carry patient germs home to my family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Embarrassing? Not at all. My friends mom went back to PA school when we were in high school. It was no joke though.

wow that's impressive. How old was the mom?

[Anonymous]

Can we just get rid of referring to jobs as "blue-collar", "white-collar," or any other kind of collar? It's a veiled way of talking about class -- but, whoops! America is a classless society so we can't be doing that! -- and has nothing, objectively speaking, to do with skill, professionalism, or training, or even earning power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP if you have to ask this question, I fear that you are not cut out for a job like a PA that requires critical thinking, sensitivity to others, and reasoning skills.

+1. You don't sound mature or informed enough to be a PA.

[Anonymous]

DW has a master degree and making 155k. i don't care about the collar thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP if you have to ask this question, I fear that you are not cut out for a job like a PA that requires critical thinking, sensitivity to others, and reasoning skills.

+1. You don't sound mature or informed enough to be a PA.

+1 Go get a degree in something that doesn't involve people or details.

[Anonymous]

You realize that it's challenging to become a PA right? It's not like you sign up for the class and 9 months later, you're a PA? Investigate some programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its too late for me to be an MD (I'm 31)

would being a PA be too embarrassing?

The PA field would be embarrassed to have you, yes.

- Assistant to the regional manager.

[Anonymous]

What's embarrassing is your attitude toward blue collar professions when you probably depend on them to fix your car, plumbing, electrical work, etc.

[Anonymous]

PAs (like doctors and NPs) literally wear white lab coats with white collars on them.

[Anonymous]

It's pretty competitive to get into PA school.

[Anonymous]

PA school is highly competitive.
Even good nursing schools are very competitive right now (not the profit diploma mills).

[Anonymous]

What’s the difference in job function between a nurse practitioner and a PA? We have seen some great nurse practitioners who seem to have lots of knowledge and experience but they seem to be lower in the hierarchy than the young PAs.