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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course.  A partner at my old law firm is married to a firefighter.  [/quote]

Firefighters can be pretty well educated. At our big, well regarded state school, lots of guys get building science degrees and do the general contractor/fireflighter split when they graduate. Extremely lucrative.

My best friend from college (an ivy) who has a very successful career in public administration is married to a firefighter with a masters degree in fire protection sciences.  He's a professor on his "off" days.

Point is, i don't think firefighter is particularly "blue collar".   [/quote]

If your job is physical and you work with your hands, and you wear a uniform, THAT is blue-collar.[/quote]

Not necessarily a uniform. My dad (who planned to go to school on the GI bill but was called home to help with the farm, escaped a few years later when he got a welding job at a new mine under construction, by then there were 3 kids and 2 more came after that) became a mining electrician and was very, very smart. I remember a visit he and I made on a trip to see the son of someone he worked with, the son was a Los Alamos physicist and they talked for hours. He was kind of a garage inventor and made a point of tracking down university professors to discuss things he was working on. My dad was also very knowledgeable about metallurgy in connection with his welding, and was known at the mine for figuring out a problem with a blast furnace several engineers flown in from elsewhere had not figured out. Anytime he was annoyed by someone else's apparent incompetence, he was liable to yell, "It's simple physics!" and he grew crystals in the garage. [/quote]

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