The thing is, though, that a lot of people with non-bullshit jobs earn a living doing shit for people with bullshit jobs.

My family had an underground lawn sprinkler installation business when I was growing up. Shit was hard work. Still, we had a comfortable middle class existence for most of it, because lawyers and regional managers and HR execs wanted nice lawns.

You can imagine what happened during the Great Recession. Real people with non-bullshit jobs, the Mike Rowe "Dirty Jobs" crowd had a hard time of it.