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585 I’m 66 and my grandson asked me what I did for a living and when I said “I was an electrician” he said “oh” — and that single syllable taught me more about how the world sees blue-collar work than forty years of doing it ever did

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Tommy Baker @ Silicon Canals · 02/27/2026 13:00 EDT

I’m 66 and my grandson asked me what I did for a living and when I said “I was an electrician” he said “oh” — and that single syllable taught me more about how the world sees blue-collar work than forty years of doing it ever did

When his eleven-year-old grandson responded to his forty-year career as an electrician with a single, dismissive "oh," this retired tradesman realized that tiny syllable revealed everything wrong with how society values the people who literally keep our lights on.

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