I wasn ' t denying it because it wasn ' t relevant enough to deserve acknowledgment . Yeah , my job that required me to work on the Holiday was a cushy administrative job at a Residential Hall in college . But I had that job because I spent every summer in High School working on a farm and I wanted a job that didn ' t involve manual labor so don ' t act like my points aren ' t valid because I don ' t know a hard day ' s work . But guess what , I didn ' t complain about manual labor either because I knew what I signed up for . I was trading my labor for money . I was just happy to be getting paid . Whether it was my cushy administrative position or my hard labor on the farm that kept me working on Thanksgiving is irrelevant and I have no idea what you were trying to accomplish by making that point . The only thing you could have possibly been doing is stroking your ego to get off on some sense of superiority over those in white collar jobs because you do hard manual labor . Guess what ? Your smug assumptions and misplaced condescention don ' t apply here .