It's an interesting thing, doing manual labor. I get off work after eight hours of menial farm work and ride my bide seven miles into town. Due to the humidity, flies typically follow me around. All day long I hear about advertisements for real estate and credit cards- essentially people making money without actually producing anything. I walk around town in my grubby work clothes and I feel like I'm on a totally different track than most.
An older woman once asked me what I did for work. I told her and she said "Well, that seems... manageable." What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I understand the assumption that manual laborers are stupid, but seriously, either I'm covered in dirt and assumed to be ignorant or carrying around a book bag and assumed to be a pretentious ass. I'm fucking sick of it. I like to work with dirt. I enjoy reading philosophy on my free time. Makes me sick how people react to anything they aren't used to.
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