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No, just wanted to be a little provocative :-) In the old days, doctors and lawyers, and all the "professions", were considered inferior to the landed aristocracy.
You need to separate the money from the actual work involved. My husband is a doctor. I'm a research scientist. We are all blue collar in the sense that we work with our hands. I agree that job descriptions sometimes straddle the line and that someone might work in a research lab or a surgery but then, with the same diploma, switch to policy or management.
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Yup.  You and your DH aren't artisans either PPP even though you "work with your hands". Blue collar implies working class.

This is akin to saying that Wall St. investment bankers and stockbrokers are "working class" because they "work."[/quote]

"A blue collar is a working-class person historically defined by hourly rates of pay and manual labor. A blue collar worker refers to the fact that most manual laborers at the turn of the century wore blue shirts, which could hold a little dirt around the collar without standing out."
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/explainer/2012/05/blue_collar_white_collar_why_do_we_use_these_terms_.html

Trump is a gold collar but he needs a dog collar--he's rabid.[/quote]

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