Neither did I, my friend. I think too, being from a line of blue collar workers myself, that there is the old management versus labor(in the traditional sense, not the union sense) disputes that are kinda legend in the minds of the blue collar family. My family was the same way too. It almost seemed like a betrayal of family values to jump the line, so to speak, and cross over to the 'other side'.
I went the opposite way.
I didn't want to go to college; I wanted to be out in the real world.
However, it was frequently pointed out that we had six generations of 100% college graduates (father's side), and I wasn't to be the exception.
I fought this idea ferociously, even violently. I even took the physical for the U.S. Army, planning on cheating on the hearing test, which I did. (It was years later that I finally figured out the recruiter was doing it as a favor to me, as he painfully knew I wouldn't pass.)
I was way set against this idea, of going to college and having a desk job.
However, other events interfered, and by the time I was done with high school, the parents and siblings started dropping like dominoes, and I had no other place to be, but in college. And being a good trooper, I finished it (and in fact went back a second time).
Over the years, I've had both white-collar and blue-collar jobs, but the best one I ever had was taking 20', 380-pound, lengths of pipe and bending them into posts for basketball backboards. It was the most carefree, the most stress-free, job I ever had, a great job.....but alas after a couple of years I bowed to peer pressure and went on to yet another white collar job (records supervisor for Immigration & Naturalization).
Both jobs paid about the same money, the same benefits.
