<story><title>The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass</title><url>https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-blue-collar-jobs-of-philip-glass</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vatys</author><text>&amp;gt; “I could manage quite well working as few as twenty to twenty-five hours a week—in other words, three full days or five half days. Even after I returned from Paris or India in the late 1960s and well into the 1970s, I could take care of my family by working no more than three or four days a week.”&lt;p&gt;Would today&amp;#x27;s youth, even if equally gifted and ambitious, have the same opportunity?  I think now there is such a great imbalance in cost of living and pay rates, it may no longer be possible to follow a similar path and get similar results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrackerFF</author><text>Sure, you could move out to rural nowhere, where housing costs next to nothing. Find some part time job, and live your life.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m from a place like that, and a bunch of my old classmates from HS have lived like that their entire adult lives working part time. They work 2-3-4 days a week.&lt;p&gt;Of course, you&amp;#x27;ll be sacrificing lots of materialistic things, but that&amp;#x27;s a given.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass</title><url>https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-blue-collar-jobs-of-philip-glass</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vatys</author><text>&amp;gt; “I could manage quite well working as few as twenty to twenty-five hours a week—in other words, three full days or five half days. Even after I returned from Paris or India in the late 1960s and well into the 1970s, I could take care of my family by working no more than three or four days a week.”&lt;p&gt;Would today&amp;#x27;s youth, even if equally gifted and ambitious, have the same opportunity?  I think now there is such a great imbalance in cost of living and pay rates, it may no longer be possible to follow a similar path and get similar results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baerrie</author><text>In New York particularly this could maybe work. They have strong blue collar unions so benefits and pay would be actually livable. Plumbing anywhere is pretty viable. Faulkner worked in construction and did a similar thing. I am working in tech to fund my creative pursuits, an industry on its way to being blue collar</text></comment>