What color is your collar?

Happy Thursday, we are officially OVER the hump!

Today i was taking a survey (cause sometimes i do secret shopping) and one of the questions was: "Are you White collar or Blue collar?" Which led me to think? I dunno, which one am i?

I always thought white collar to be office work, businessmen in suits, neatly trimmed and manicured - yeah, women too. I figured blue collar to be those people who have to actually do physical work, moving, cleaning, sweating (in some instances), getting your hands dirty type work, but i wanted to look it up just to be sure.

I love that darn wikipedia, i don't care what people say about it. Not only did it give me interesting definitions for blue and white collar, it also advised me that it doesn't stop there, there's white, blue, grey, gold, pink and green! Who'd of thunk it? So let me define these for you, for those of you who didn't know.

White: refers to a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales coordination tasks

Blue: is a member of the working class who performs manual labor and earns an hourly wage. Blue-collar workers are distinguished from those in the service sector

Grey: refers to the balance of employed people not classified as white- or blue collar. Although grey-collar is sometimes used to describe those who work beyond the age of retirement, its most widely accepted meaning refers to occupations that incorporate some of the elements of both blue- and white-collar, or are completely different from both categories

Gold: is a neologism which has been used to describe either young, low-wage workers who invest in conspicuous luxury (often with parental support), or highly-skilled knowledge workers, traditionally classified as white collar, but who have recently become essential enough to business operations as to warrant a new classification

Pink: is employed in a job that is considered to be, traditionally, a female occupation. These traditions, generally, refer back to the first half of the twentieth century, during the Industrial Revolution. The term is formed by an analogy to Blue Collar Worker and White-collar worker. These terms were commonly equated with men in the workforce with jobs that demanded more manual labor or a more educated worker, respectively.

Green: is a worker who is employed in the environmental sectors of the economy. Environmental green-collar workers (or Green Jobs) satisfy the demand for green development. Generally, they implement environmentally conscious design, policy, and technology to improve conservation and sustainability. Formal environmental regulations as well as informal social expectations are pushing many firms to seek professionals with expertise with environmental, energy efficiency, and clean renewable energy issues. They often seek to make their output more sustainable, and thus more favorable to public opinion, governmental regulation, and the Earth's ecology

WHAT?????? Now don't even try to act like you knew about all these and I'm the last to know as always. Like WTF?

So since I'm a nurse I'm considered pink but that's the RN behind my name, does the BSN grant me a key to the white collared world? Last i checked nursing wasn't exactly a 'sit behind the desk, brainless, hey here's your meds' occupation so does that mean I'm a little blue too? Wiki goes on to say that pink collared jobs don't require much professional training? Then why am i up to my eyeballs in student loans and why did it take me 4+ years to get my nursing degree (and its at least 2 years without the degree) Sounds like more than one of those, "can i take your order or would you like fries with that" jobs....if i may say so, no offense to those who love it - I'm just saying.

Ok, i guess I'm off my soap box, but for the record, under these terms i am categorized as pink, however, my degree tells me I'm part white, when I'm working extra hard I'm blue, even tho I'm not retired I'm a little grey since its a mixture of white and blue and back in the olden days i was a little gold, just a little....when I'm recycling, can't i be considered green? LOL! OK so maybe not...

Anywho, i guess i fall under the rainbow, I'm a little of every color so hmph! (sticking tongue out)

Check out my rainbow collar....
Stay alive and kicking,
NaughyNurseBSN