No. of Recommendations: 3
Yep, it was strange for a young women attending an all male attended tech school and the resentment of, 'what am I doing here? Long story short I received my machinist certificate and employed by a world wide prestigious company, machining components for their x-ray machines.
In grad school, there was a group of about 10 of us that all had to take the same courses. Two were women. This was 30 years ago. I don't know what it would be like now. But those women were in your situation.
And, yes, some vocations command really good salaries. One of those skyscraper crane operators probably earns twice what I ever did. It is a fact that a better education correlates to higher lifetime income. But there are always exceptions, and skilled trades can (and often is) one of them.
As for "snob", no I'm not. Son of a salesman. Lower middle class. "Born on commission". Infuriated my dad that I couldn't sell a space heater to an Eskimo, so to speak. My mother is convinced (or was convinced, she's dead now) that part of the reason for my large vocabulary is that they never talked down to me, or used baby talk. Ever. So I had to learn the words -as any child does-. So my vocabulary is fairly large, even without the technical stuff I picked up as a result of a physics major, and more industry terms picked up working in semiconductors. I never talk "down" to anyone. I talk how I talk to everyone. No discrimination. If I'm not understood, then I shift gears. Sometimes they aren't native English speakers, or don't have a technical education, or whatever. The point of vocabulary is communication. It is the speaker's job to be understood, whether I'm talking to you, or a Parisian**.
**I don't speak French. But I can't expect them to speak English for me. Enter "Google Translate".
