I don't come from a traditional family. In fact, we are completely atheist and don't have any traditions aside from eastern dinner, christmass and birthdays, because it's family time and nice to share with everyone around you. Aside from that, I have met families where they simple believe that going to school is a loss of time, the elderly don't understand why you should learn to much for any job and rather have you to be a mechanic, construction worker or anything else that requires more musclepower than an actual brain.

In these families that I've observed, it is also the man that does all the heavier chores around the house, and typically associated with maintaining a farm, machinery, working on the house yourself. The housewives could care less about your education, because they get to be at home, cooking all day (incl watching television, meeting other housewife friends while you are working your ass off in construction), and the money rolls in anyway. Added benefit, you can do more than just be a wagemaker, but also a housemaker.

I got called out for doing nothing while writing my thesis on the computer, and should do something useful like chopping wood in the forest. In the meantime, her dear husband works 12 hours per day in construction, and atleast can expect a nice warm meal after all his hard work. 60 hours per week of your life, gone. Forget about saturday, then you have to do all the shit that she couldn't do herself, and still you would be called slow.

Most modern women are worthless, but so are the majority of the still traditional ones. The only good women are those who had good men that weren't the pussies like dear husband was, who doesn't give her shit for calling him slow after doing so much work so she can keep her comfortable ass at home. She could easily have a part-time job, but baking fucking cakes the entire afternoon is apparently more important. Once I got into a fight with the housewife about how it's hard to have 3 children these days, as both parents have to work to maintain a normal living standard. It was a worthless fight, but interesting to see how she didn't have a single fucking clue that 3 kids are expensive in time and money, and that not everyone can afford it unless both parents work. Only then her dear husband opened his mouth and explained her that they also didn't have it easy with their 3 kids. Only then did she shut up. She didn't ask further, why it was hard, what hardships they faced. She simply shut up, she didn't want to hear or see it. She evaded the reality that her husband is working his ass off so her ass can be comfortable at home, while she spends the money on groceries and clothing that she likes for her and her kids. Imagine working 60 hours, wasting an entire saturday on chores, while your wife is baking fucking cakes and enjoying her 30 years off. Kids at school or moved out, husband at work, while her hamster level is over 9000.

Does she appreciate what her husband does? No, instead he gets shit for being slow. He once got health problems which were related to his job, and she was a complete trainwreck. Probably not because her beloved husband might potentially die, but because who else would be there for the income? Who will do all the chores? Women are total dicks against men without whom they are completely hopeless, fail to recognize it, keep pushing the boundaries and refuse to see reality. Dear husband is the most beta man I have ever seen and I feel for him. Changing the tyres every season for all his daughters and not even a single thank you. "Just from one day to the other, the tyres are changed, I don't even ask!". The housewife also wants her daughters to have men that work with their hands, and it's obvious why. They are handy, they still make money, and typically, the women themselves are smarter than the man and can abuse them like dear housewife abuses dear husband. Nevermind, I come from a tradition where ungrateful women like this get beaten.

This is in no means to devalue anyone who does manual labor, but typically the guys around this region are not the most bright lightbulbs around and are the most traditional. The sample size is just a handful, so it doesn't represent anything. It's rather than education is considered to be worthless, and you should just do manual labor. Farmers these days need to be engineers, but the majority still believes that studying to be a farmer is a waste of time.