A little recognition for our manufacturing base, please ...

摘要

It's funny how people have perceptions of jobs and sectors that are so far off the mark that you'd struggle to measure it with existing technology. Consider, for example, banking and manufacturing. Ask your average punter to conjure up a picture of a city trader, and he'll picture a wheeler-dealer type; arrogant, sleezy, probably wearing loud and offensive braces, paid far too much on a monthly basis, and relying on a fat annual bonus to pay for holidays to exotic resorts most of us could only dream of.