# Shift Worthy News Story **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 10, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-worthy-news-story/265716 "2012-12-10T14:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 64
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-worthy-news-story/265716/64 "2012-12-11T09:22:06Z")
> [@I sold my jetski.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-sold-my-jetski/51242/31): > > i worked there when i was 22, so you could compare that against someone whos worked a job for 2 years where literally all you have to do is sit on a stool and watch a machine, if the machine goofs up you hit a button and the union mechanical comes down to fix it. you literally just sit there and hit a button if anything bad happens. that is not a skilled trade I make a damn good button pusher. TOTAL PUN INTENDED THERE! HAHAHAHAH “skilled trade” is an opinion anyways, you will never win this one. My definition of skilled trade is an action someone can complete, that a total outsider cant just come in and take over. So I agree with you with your example The ONLY way I could see someone making more money for their “trade” vs someone else next to them doing something far more taxing, would be from senority’s sake. If someone can sit there for 2080 hours a year doing pretty much nothing but press a big red button and make a call, for a bunch of years, they are nuts but still diserve incremental pay increases like anyone else. But yeah, a dude getting paid $45K a year (even if he is on year 3 of button pushing) VS a dude getting paid $35K a year say writing the code to run the machine isnt “right” in my mind either. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-worthy-news-story/265716)._