Though technology has replaced some of it, there are still manual laborers aplenty in this country.
I watch some of the handyman youtube channels sometimes and they say handyman wages are going through the roof due to the lack of people going into that field. A couple of them say they make six figures a year.
Re vintage clothing. When my father died a couple of years ago, I snagged a few vintage things from his wardrobe. He still had the coat he wore when he worked at a gas station in the 1950s in Nebraska…has a big company patch on it “Quality Oil”. Very neat, I’ll never get rid of it. It is a very heavy coat so it must’ve been cold in Nebraska. I also inherited his 1950s high school letterman jacket. Unfortunately it has not held up as well as the gas station coat as the leather is severely cracked. I went over it with Bickmore Leather Conditioner a couple of times to save what I can, but it just stabilized it and it is still too far gone to wear.
