"Nothing in this world builds character, quite like being a Janitor, m'boy. So grab a mop, and be ready to get dirty, because when all is said and done, no matter how you might look down on them, someone's gotta do the dirty work" - My high school janitor to some upscale, silver spoon in his ***, rich kid who made another spill his lunch (actual lunch, not barf) all over the cafeteria.
Yeah, that's how I see it. I guess that's how I always relate the most to the characters in movies and tv shows that emulate the working man, what poets and authors would refer to as the "rustics". For instance, in Love's Labours Lost, there is a character in the play named Dull. He is a rustic; throughout the play while everyone else is being extravagant and having issues with love, he's just sitting on the sidelines, going "I have no idea what's going on and I don't care." He was the gateway to the play that the audience needed, specifically the peasants who paid a penny to stand around on the ground floor at the Globe Theatre.
That's a roundabout way of saying that I relate to the working man because I've lived that life constantly. I've learned that those jobs aren't easy, and that the people who do them deserve a
lot more credit than they're given. That's why I'm always colloquial to the janitor when he pops in every afternoon to clean my classroom. The guy deserves to be treated like a human being.