FUEGO
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Not blue collar (professional engineer license; retired civil engineer) but I spent plenty of time mucking through swamps, climbing over/under fences, peeing in the woods or port a johns, hiding out in forests in the middle of the night, dodging traffic behind orange cones, maintaining balance on slippery muddy surfaces, wearing a hard hat, dirt on my knees, hands, feet, face, etc.
Toward the end of my career I wore a blue hard hat (which apparently made me a "supervisor" instead of all the white hat laborers), steel toe "dressy" shoes, and khaki or dark slacks, so it was obvious when I stepped out of my Honda Civic (another clue!) on the construction site that I wasn't a laborer.
I never broke through $70k but made a pretty average salary for a civil engineer of my age and experience.
Toward the end of my career I wore a blue hard hat (which apparently made me a "supervisor" instead of all the white hat laborers), steel toe "dressy" shoes, and khaki or dark slacks, so it was obvious when I stepped out of my Honda Civic (another clue!) on the construction site that I wasn't a laborer.
I never broke through $70k but made a pretty average salary for a civil engineer of my age and experience.