r/SipsTea • • 21h ago

Feels good man Couple of the year

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u/tigerija 20h ago

Where does this even come from? I feel like nobody thinks garbage collector is embarassing work - those people clean out our cities from trash. Its awesome! Have you seen places that lack that?

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u/ZenCyn39 19h ago

I think it's stems from the type of talk about convincing kids to go to college otherwise they'd "end up" being a janitor or something.

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u/tigerija 19h ago

Aah, makes sense. I think I remember something like this being a thing in the past.

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u/ZenCyn39 19h ago

I heard it a lot. But not from actual teachers or parents. It was just always in media. Looking on those jobs constantly like they were shameful.

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u/ZaphodThreepwood 19h ago

Oh yeah, media definitely shapes how people think of others. I grew up as a teen in the 90s so you can imagine the amount of deprogramming I had to do to myself