Originally Posted By: O the Umanity
Circuses, yes, archaically sometimes in the oil patch, but "unskilled" ???

Never!


It seems that "unskilled" is often used as a catch-all word meaning that the work does not require a tertiary academic qualification. The obsessive fixation in many countries with university education has seen almost any other sort of employment socially devalued, as reflected in the use of "unskilled" to describe many, many jobs which are quite self-evidently not unskilled.