12ozProphet

It’s funny to me that you are posting about being jealous of people who work with their hand and perform manual labor. It’s funny to me because I sweat and bleed and die a little 6 days a week working in a factory. I am working hard to get the kind of job that you have.
It’s cool that you respect people like Matthew Crawford. Blue collar workers are the forgotten heroes of this country. People who break their backs to support their families and never get ahead. Meanwhile the people who they work for are so far ahead that they don’t know what to do with all of their money.
I have seen some horrible things in the factory too. I have seen people laid off after forty years of dedicated service. I have seen people have heart attacks from the mental ass-kicking that they receive. I saw a guy get his arm crushed in a press a couple of weeks ago.
All in all i like the work that i do but, I hate the people that I do it for. The work is taking a toll on my body though and that is why I need to get out. I working on a graphic design degree and hoping soon to have a job like yours.
Wow, sorry about rambling on… Anyway, great job with Handselecta.
-T

In A past time this conversation was like a really important because all the works that i do and my friends work are really plastic . And in that time I found this interview of margaret killgallen r.i.p wach it¡http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ejN8ZlX4U
http://www.okfscrew.com
saludos

TreaT, thanks for the comments. Did you read the article? I think the work I do as a designer isnt that different from the work he describes. I am interested in thoughtful work that integrates hand and mind. Craftsmanship. DIY. The fewer middle men the better, between conception and product. So design is as close to that in a digital age as you can be and still sit at a desk I guess. As a type designer in years past it would’ve been much more handmade, design as a whole would’ve been. As far as my work goes I realized a while back that if I were born a hundred years ago most likely I would’ve made a better sign painter than type designer. Nod to Espo’s work in keeping that tradition alive.

I come from a mix of working class and college educated in my family, and I guess what I take away from stuff like this is - if my son were to be inclined to move toward a trade as opposed to the liberal arts I would push him to find a trade or craft that made him as independent as possible in the market. So for example I think there is value in being a mechanic, but more value in fixing cars than in making them in an assembly line. Work is something that can make life worth loving or worth hating. I’m not a car guy, or much of a carpetner, so for me design was the only thing I ever gravitated towards (and therefore the omnly thing I felt I should pursue). I’m just interested in how to integrate my whole being, the physical, mental and spiritual, into my daily work. The physical is the part that is most lacking in my daily life. Thankfully my work is more tangible than most.

Sidenote: I’ve always been more interested in The Crafstman/Arts and Crafts movement than what Modernism became by the mid century. The crafted, hand made pieces, had so much more breath in them to me.

Jibtone, that clip of Kilgallen is amazing and very much what I meant. Thanks.

I know what you’re saying… I think I got of track and just started to rant.

hope u like it that is so true so sensitive and in a certain way we had lost all that with the digital era we win in the other side of comunnication like this little conversation.
I think we got to take the more advantage of this , saludos .
http://www.okfscrew.com