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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it amazing that some do not have an evangelical friend or have a friend with different political opinions.  I also somewhat find it surprising that most here did not work a factory job, even if only for a summer during college or grad school.[/quote]

Why do these things amaze you?

I dislike proselytizing religious people so I avoid evangelicals.  I have many profoundly religious friends of many diverse religious backgrounds, but I find evangelicals to be difficult people to be around since I find them to be religiously intolerant.

As for factory jobs, again, I'm surprised your amazed.  The majority of people that come onto DCUM are people who grew up and predominantly lived in suburban and urban areas and ended up with largely white collar jobs.  Relatively few have even lived near factories, let alone worked in them.  My jobs in college were fast food, then basic office jobs starting with unskilled jobs and then going into skilled jobs that related to my education.  And my college friends were pretty similar, working various unskilled jobs in business, retail and office settings that had nothing to do with factories.  While there may be a large demographic that has worked in factories as you suspect, relatively few of those types fit the background of the typical DCUM reader.[/quote]

1.  At every job I've had and every neighborhood there have been numerous
G od-squaders. I cannot avoid them.

2.  I am from suburban md but spent two summers making windows in elkridge.  My nephew recently did something similar.  
Seemed common enough.[/quote]

Above PP back.  I agree with #1.  However, the question asked if I had any evangelical friends.  The answer is no.  If it had asked if I had any evangelical acquaintances or knew any evangelicals, the answer would have been yes.  I don't have much in common with the evangelicals that I meet, so I don't tend to make friends with them.

As for #2, yes, there are some who have done this.  But, like the author of the quiz, I think that those who have worked factory jobs, even summer blue-collar jobs and moved into the white-collar world are a small minority of the factory workforce.  I think the vast majority of the white-collar workforce has worked in more suburban/urban type jobs, like I mentioned, retail, small business and office jobs.  Likewise, I think you'll find that those who worked in outdoor jobs are more likely to have had a job like lifeguard, amusement park attendant or similar than have worked as a construction worker or ditchdigger (which my brother did back in high school, but very others in our suburban neighborhood and school district did other than him).

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