“unskilled” directly refers to the amount of training a job requires to do it. Anyone can wash dishes or do a newspaper round without any training. It’s not a skill to wash a plate properly.
Anyone can do an unskilled job and be efficient at it in a short space of time.
I agree with your passion, but I think you’re digging too deep into the semantics. Sure, after time, we can expect someone to become more skilled at an “unskilled” position, but that’s bending the definition of the term.
This man needs an appendectomy.
This canyon needs a 200m bridge that will be able to hold 4 lanes of traffic.
This floor needs mopped.
98% of people would have no idea where to even start on the first two jobs. THAT is the difference between skilled and unskilled.
I’ve had a few jobs when I was young that required no skill.
I call bull.
It takes skill to do anything. Mopping a floor, washing a window, making a bed, or bagging groceries.
Newspaper round, washing dishes in a pub kitchen and working in a plant nursery putting seeds into soil in their trays.
None of them required any training, anyone could have done those jobs.
Training=/= skill
I washed dishes. You can do a bad job or a good job.
Same with all the others.
“unskilled” directly refers to the amount of training a job requires to do it. Anyone can wash dishes or do a newspaper round without any training. It’s not a skill to wash a plate properly.
Anyone can do an unskilled job and be efficient at it in a short space of time.
I agree with your passion, but I think you’re digging too deep into the semantics. Sure, after time, we can expect someone to become more skilled at an “unskilled” position, but that’s bending the definition of the term.
This man needs an appendectomy.
This canyon needs a 200m bridge that will be able to hold 4 lanes of traffic.
This floor needs mopped.
98% of people would have no idea where to even start on the first two jobs. THAT is the difference between skilled and unskilled.