julietsierra -> RE: White Collar Women (1/13/2007 6:24:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: johnsteed2 ... One lady I was involved with broke up with me because she was afraid my attention to my career would take all my time and make me a poor husband / father.... ...And when he is at home with the family, he's usually watching sports on TV or playing sports video games. My ex is a white collar worker. His attention to his career made him a poor husband and an even poorer father. And when he was home, all he did was watch sports on TV and played sports video games. And that example as the determiner of the differences between white collar workers and blue collar workers is steeped in stereotype, not to mention pretty prejudicial. What she got was a man that's home all the time. What she didn't see is that regardless of the kind of work he did, he was also someone who didn't want to do anything. My white collar worker ex was the same way. His rationale: "Hey, I'm home every night!!" He just never saw that being home was just one of the things I'd hoped he'd be and that he never bothered with anything else. On the other hand, I know a LOT of blue collar workers who fix cars all day long at work, then come home and have an entire working mechanic's garage set up in their garage. They take in other people's cars (mine included) after work, are teaching their boys their trade, attend all the football games their sons are involved in, go to receitals their daughters are involved in, make every parent teacher conference, take their children to museums and libraries and all sorts of other activites, are emotionally present for their wives and have made wonderful lives for themselves. I'm betting she figured you wouldn't have - or make - time for all that and the other man would, but that he didn't live up to her expectations of involvement in his family - regardless of the status of his job verses yours. juliet
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