Originally Posted by bookslover

Our society has trained itself to look down on people who work with their hands instead of their minds. But, as with the lifetime servant in ancient Israel, some people actually like being janitors, farmers, plumbers, painters, electricians, woodworkers, carpenters, stonemasons, grocery store clerks, etc., etc. American society today seems to have no respect for people who have a talent for hands-on craftsmanship - someone who knows how to make a beautiful cabinet, for example. If you haven't been to college and earned that piece of paper, then gone on to get a job in a cubicle in some bureaucracy somewhere, you're a failure. It's unfathomable to this way of thinking that some people not only like working with their hands, they're actually good at it and can actually make a living at it.