A day in the life of Mister Singh

[Premi5]

Just now, dallysingh101 said:

No it isn't. I know plenty of apnay who aren't genteel office pajamay. Young ones too. 

Personally I think a big element is being true to your roots (the vast majority of us descend from peasants and craftsmen - whose jobs was highly physically demanding), and also certain people seem to naturally have higher energy levels than others - these people have usually tried jobs without physical components, and have not liked them, hence going into 'blue-collar' roles.  These types of roles allow people to expend excess energy - and also the culture around them is more upfront and direct, as some people don't like all the crafty  'politics' of office roles. 

Agree with a lot of what you say. Do you think those who (like myself) were brought up away from our communities in the UK, are more likely to be in white collar jobs and those who have been brought up in the community are more likely to be in blue collar job ?

I think that is the case although the reasons might be more complex 

 

[dallysingh101]

4 minutes ago, Premi5 said:

Agree with a lot of what you say. Do you think those who (like myself) were brought up away from our communities in the UK, are more likely to be in white collar jobs and those who have been brought up in the community are more likely to be in blue collar job ?

I think that is the case although the reasons might be more complex 

 

No, not at all, I think personality and physical constitution play a part. I know of siblings where one is more physical and even academically proficient than the other siblings, but whilst the nonphysical siblings have excelled in office or nonphysical roles, the more intelligent and qualified one has gone into physical roles, after experiencing the white collar roles. 

 

Where did you grow up? 

[Premi5]

46 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

No, not at all, I think personality and physical constitution play a part. I know of siblings where one is more physical and even academically proficient than the other siblings, but whilst the nonphysical siblings have excelled in office or nonphysical roles, the more intelligent and qualified one has gone into physical roles, after experiencing the white collar roles. 

 

Where did you grow up? 

I cannot be too specific but in the SE London/Kent borders area. 95% white (and more growing up). 

[dallysingh101]

26 minutes ago, Premi5 said:

I cannot be too specific but in the SE London/Kent borders area. 95% white (and more growing up). 

Well brother, outside of that environment, a lot of Sikhs do 'blue-collar' roles. Some of them are actually millionaires too, or have multiple properties, so you can't even categorise it in terms of financial success, because some of the grafters are richer than the office folk.  

[Jai Tegang!]

21 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

Hey there, bro. Thanks for asking after me.

I'm surrounded by timber, tiles, and paint from morning to evening, leaving little time for much else, lol. I've stopped getting notifications on mobile unless I login on a computer, but I haven't had time to do that for months.

Thankful to be earning a crust in these tough times. God's grace as always.

Surprised you are in the trades, brother. You, and others from the UK like @dalsingh101, sound very well educated and rounded. I always imagined you had office type work. Perhaps it's more of a reflection of UK's education system. You can spot Canadians from the simple English we use, lol. Even the Americans sound better.

[Premi5]

2 hours ago, dallysingh101 said:

Well brother, outside of that environment, a lot of Sikhs do 'blue-collar' roles. Some of them are actually millionaires too, or have multiple properties, so you can't even categorise it in terms of financial success, because some of the grafters are richer than the office folk.  

I think you are assuming too much from my posts. I never said any anything about financial success being linked to someone’s job

 

[Premi5]

1 hour ago, Jai Tegang! said:

Surprised you are in the trades, brother. You, and others from the UK like @dalsingh101, sound very well educated and rounded. I always imagined you had office type work. Perhaps it's more of a reflection of UK's education system. You can spot Canadians from the simple English we use, lol. Even the Americans sound better.

I know someone I was at uni with who partly grew up in Canada and he told me he considered the Canadian school education much inferior to UK

[dallysingh101]

1 hour ago, Jai Tegang! said:

Surprised you are in the trades, brother. You, and others from the UK like @dalsingh101, sound very well educated and rounded. I always imagined you had office type work. Perhaps it's more of a reflection of UK's education system. You can spot Canadians from the simple English we use, lol. Even the Americans sound better.

Erm...thanks for the compliment? I am pretty well educated (academically), but I think it's the knowledge you gain outside of that that is equally, if not more, important. Being a 'reader' helps big time, regardless of whether you are educated or not from what I've seen and experienced. I know people who are graduates who have very little knowledge outside of their specialty and can't even spell or write very well.....so?   Like I alluded to earlier, office work didn't agree with me, nor I with it, when younger - I found racism to be commonplace - especially the covert type. On the other side of the fence the racism is more out in the open. 

I have a relative who went college in Canada, he thought the education system was better out there. I've worked in education and most of my closest friends are teachers still - there are lots of dubious things going on in the state system here. I think some people are innately independent learners too (with Waheguru ji's kirpa), so they still end up getting educated regardless of the schools they went to.   One positive thing I will say about the UK system, is that it allows people to pursue education after school (used to be anyway, don't know now?).  So if you f**ked up your GCSEs when young (say you had drama at home), you can go college in the evenings as an adult and get them. 

[dallysingh101]

52 minutes ago, Premi5 said:

I think you are assuming too much from my posts. I never said any anything about financial success being linked to someone’s job

 

Well one of your posts seemed to have single me out specifically for being some sort of one-off 'champion' of blue collar working (or so it seemed). 

But don't worry, I think I get you now. lol 

[californiasardar1]

22 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

Almost as unbearable as some Singhs constantly crying about not being able to get women for vague, unspecified, and unconvincing reasons!

Vague? I've never been vague about it

Have a laugh at that if you want, but I'm out of the gene pool now and that means one less Sikh family in the future. When your grandchildren are forbidden from wearing dastars by the government of whatever country they will be living in, I'm sure the monay who haven't had a singh in their family tree for 100 years will help them.