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My entire family has done some sort of blue collar job from plumbing to painting to Residential Deck Staining. Carpentry, being an electrician, or whatever else is what my family always did. So when it came time for me to grow up my family didn’t have any doubt in their minds that that was the trade that I was going to be going into . I honestly have no desire to get into that sort of trade, nor do I have any skill when it comes to using tools . I am scared for myself with a pair of pliers, I can’t even imagine if someone handed me a saw and told me to get to work, I would for sure hurt myself or someone else . That’s how fatalities happen. I am a very careless, clumsy person, and that is how it all starts in those occupations . What I understand now that I didn’t when I was younger is that most of these trade positions are passed down through families. This occupation is somewhat like a monarchy, the son goes to work with the father and learns how to do the trade, after years and years of learning, when the father thinks it is time, the son steps up and takes the fathers position, and this is how it goes from generation to generation . I didn’t realize that was the reason there was so much pressure on me to take up a trade or why so many family friends assumed I just would. Everyone was really confused when I wasn’t exactly what they thought I was going to be . I suppose I can’t blame them. My family was used to the way things have always been so I guess I caught them off guard when I wasn’t exactly like them, actually I was the farthest thing from being like them .