• Flying Squid
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    202 years ago

    I have never heard of a job that required no training in order to do it. That’s learning a skill. And if you’ve already trained yourself in how to do it, you’ve still learned a skill. I can’t think of a job that you can do without any training whatsoever.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      It’s a matter of degree. Comparing the training of a delivery driver or custodian to that of a doctor, engineer, or professor is, frankly, just stupid. This is what is meant by skilled versus unskilled labour.

      • Flying Squid
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        92 years ago

        No one made such a comparison. Again- any training or education is learning a skill. It doesn’t matter if it’s 8 years in a university or 8 hours as a dishwasher. There is no job I can think of that doesn’t require at least some training or education. Can you?

          • Flying Squid
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            42 years ago

            “Minimal training” = learning a skill.

            It is skilled labor.

              • Flying Squid
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                12 years ago

                No. Being trained to do something is learning a skill. It’s that simple. I’m not sure why that isn’t clear to you yet. How many more times do I need to repeat it?

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 years ago

                  Ok fine. We want to be obtuse. Let’s separate it into minimally skilled and more skilled.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      22 years ago

      The difference is if you require a degree or license or some other certification of non-career training prior to being considered for the job.

      • Flying Squid
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        32 years ago

        Where have you worked where a job requires absolutely no training whatsoever?

    • dream_weasel
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      42 years ago

      It sounds like you’re taking issue with the terminology and not the concept.

      Unskilled labor being the kind you learn on the job and any normal human can be trained to do, vetsus skilled labor that requires university/apprenticeship/trade school. It’s hours or days of training compared to years of specialized training.

      I don’t like this particular turn of phrase either, but here we are.

      • Flying Squid
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        22 years ago

        Yes, that’s what the investor class thinks. They are wrong.

        • dream_weasel
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          12 years ago

          Yeah I doubt it. I can flip any burger you got, you come design my machine learning algorithms.