Honorable occupations.

So did being a politician...


Okay, not really ever, but, yeah,,,,

 

a percentage of people have frequently mistakenly equated high status with honorable. while not exact opposites, they have certainly never been exact equivalents either.
there has never really been a consistent relationship between the two. doctors, engineers (both kinds), and smart people generally, have usually been
and been considered honorable occupations. farmers, construction workers, tradesmen such as carpenters and plumbers, investigators and explorers, artists, though of some sorts generally more then others. subsistence gardeners, props and miniatures makers.

 

A bus driver.

 

London's metropolitan police and ambulance are heroes where only the bad guys carry guns and bladed articles.

 

Rock Bands.

 

Roofing--the most important trade there is. Clergymen-----blah-blah-blah for money. And loads of it too.

 

I shoot birds at the airport.

 

As long as the occupation contributes to the betterment of society, there's no such thing as a dishonorable job.

 

Nothing honorable in that profession but it’s necessary

 

You dont eat chicken?

 

Of course I eat chicken, they shoot birds at the airport to prevent bird strikes on aircraft and aircraft engines.

Of course there are plenty of other preventive measures such as sonic cannons, recorded noises, and trained falcons,
but not every country uses these more civilized methods.

 

Ever hear about the Americans testing their windscreen for bird strikes ??? - The RAF told the Americans to buy chickens from the supermarket and fire them at the windscreen.

The first test, the bird hurtled across the test area, smashed the windscreen to smithereens and smashed into the back of the cockpit damaging some of the instuments in the process. The RAF personnel monitoring the test burst into laughter. After a few minutes, they were able to tell the shocked americans not to purchase FROZEN chickens !!!

 

My dad worked at Pilkingtons, they made windscreens for trains, I remember them testing the one's for the intercity 125, the fastest train at the time, they'd clamp a screen in a jig and fire a 4" steel ball at it at a fantastic speed, it didn't go through. I saw many interesting things in the glass industry, including the 'glass hammer', yes it did exist! It was produced to show how strong a certain type of glass was, they had a video of a bloke knocking a 6" nail into timber with it.

 

I remember when being a tradesman was an honourable occupation, carried some respect! In our street when I was a lad, I remember some of the neighbours, Alec, a labourer, Pat, he shovelled concrete, There was another couple of blokes in various jobs, then there was my dad and the bloke across the road, everyone called them MR, my dad was a plumber and the other guy was a telecoms engineer. I didn't follow my old man into the trade, I served my time as a spark, an apprenticeship was 5 years back then and you were properly trained, nowadays kids do a short course, often only a couple of months and get a bit of paper saying they're an electrician, yeah right, most of my work is fixing the mess they cause. pro rata, we're on less money now than we were 30 years ago, a shelf stacker gets almost as much and they've no responsibilities, we cock it up and we can end up in front of a judge! And people wonder why there's no proper tradesmen.

 

And here is the famous glass hammer.

 

Here's another one, my dad worked on a lot of the machinery that helped produce this stuff, back in the early days, we developed a lot of stuff at St Helens, it's used all over the world,sadly the industry is almost dead in our town now. Although I didn't follow my father into the company, many years later I did work there, as dog handler in charge of security at the transport division.