Blue collar is fucking sucks ass.
Prove me wrong.
SUPER cut throat.
Pay is shit outside a union.
Even in a union, you get criticized for everything (i.e. if you sweat on the job for instance, if you take some time off you will be laid off from the job even in a union, etc.).
Shit ton of safety rules. You forget one thing, and you are analy fucked.
Actually legitimately complicated (especially when you become a journeyman and have to know what to do when you see an empty room), yet the pay doesn't justify it.
There are easier jobs with more pay out there (teaching k-12 for instance).
You get treated like a pile of shit too as an apprentice (5 yrs).
The work is hard. No vacations even in a union. Most likely no benefits outside a union.
No down time (you literally work every single second with no time to breathe).
So to summarize, blue collar work is balls. Well ALL physical work actually. Just a fact. Bottom of the barrel.
Also to add, full time in general is ass. You're a rat in a cage. I'm happy with this easy as shit part time job. Only have to work 2-3 days a week. Doesn't pay much, but just enough.