I meant that it's a problem with green jobs - they strike too many important people as unmanly and unserious. Doug
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Speakng for the sweaty manual trades of yore, I think most guys in those worlds would love to chill on some green job installing say light weight piping, solar panels, insulated offices, and do the lighter work in green energy and industrial production.
Working the mines, mills, rails, and construction is back breaking. The manly side fades when you get home too tired to fuck or do anything but clean up, eat, and sleep. During the late spring and summer, I used to like to clean up my tools on the back porch and watch the garden and let the light fall. Very quiet stuff after the intense noise of a commerical construction job.
Maybe you could even teach apprentices about the photoelectric effect and add some elementary geometry of optics... its almost the same as framing.
So who are these important people? Are you referring to the beef cake, old union bosses?
CG