White and Blue Collared Job

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

Mainly jobs are divided into two types; they are white and blue collared. There is significant different between these jobs as they have been measured from labor perspective. The first type is related to the mental or official and the last type is related the physical labor which can be seen in the field level. Both are necessary or even integral in the world of job so we shouldn’t have any distinction between them for the development of the country. However, we have found significant difference among these jobs.

White collared job is related to service side and the workers shouldn’t do much physical labor while working. They have to do official works to frame strategies so that the labors would be implemented in the field. They shouldn’t go to the field for hard toil rather they have faced mental toil only. Thus it is related to plans and policies to make the labors go to the field. We can find such persons with white collar as they have been away from hard toil. Or their collar hasn’t been dirty like the labors so they are called as white collared.

On the other hand, blue collared job is related to labor. They have to do hard toil until they have been sweating. They have to work manual jobs unlike the official works. They have to go the field to face sun and water throughout the day. They have to do much physical exercise wearing dirty clothes which is always dirty, tattered, sweating or even bad smelling. However, they shouldn’t have been responsible to frame plans and policies rather they have to follow the order of the supervisor until their work is complete.

The responsibility of white and blue collared job is different. White collared are the forerunners whereas blue collared are followers. Blue ones should follow the plans and policies of white ones. However, the blue collared are the real players of the field or the work can’t be done without their involvement. Socially white collared position is high as they have earned more than the blue collared one. On the other hand, the blue collared have less social recognition and they are economically less prosperous rather they have the power to make others active in increasing economy.

White collared are economically well-to-do who can influence the society and social rules. They have capacity to shape the social processes whereas blue collared don’t have social recognition. They have been struggling for their life running after white collared one to get petty benefit from them. So blue collared is socially and economically weak and fragile. They don’t have social and economic identity in the society though they have been together to complete the work.

We can see such differences due to education. Education plays vital role for any individual in the society to maintain the job condition. If you are educated, you have the high chance to get good job. If you are less or no education, you have the chance to enroll in blue collared work. People who have focused on education would get much benefit in the job world. If they have got proper education they would be able to get the high class job in payment and their social condition can be improved in-no-time. Thus education has upward mobility.

If you are educated you can have various chances to get good job. Ultimately it would improve your economic condition irrespective of your parental social condition. So education is a key which helps you to open the lock of high class job. If we have proper education, we can get socially, economically, and physically high class job. We have to do less labor and the payment is also high and we can be the forerunner in every activities.