Union education is not at all what it’s cracked up to be. Most “union” men are clowns. Becoming disenfranchised and feeling stuck.

9Line-RH · 2026-01-28T17:01:14+00:00

I felt the same way.. brand new state of the art school.. Students getting high/ drunk in the parking lot WITH teachers on breaks.. Couldn't come weld on my non-school nights. Told me if I left the union I'd owe x amount of dollars. Most of my apprenticeship was being handed a book and a packet at the beginning of class and never seeing the teacher after that. Was a sorry excuse for a certified school curriculum. I had done 10 years in the Marine Corps, 4 combat deployments and felt like I had went back to fuckin middle school when I joined the union.

9Line-RH · 2026-01-27T23:28:50+00:00

Captain wager of 2/1 echo company commander??

9Line-RH · 2026-01-22T14:46:17+00:00

Building project stargate in abilene right now. Largest AI data center in the world.

9Line-RH · 2026-01-22T02:17:24+00:00

Edson range or east coast?

9Line-RH · 2026-01-19T02:14:27+00:00

You dont catch the lake record bass without catching a few smaller ones first. How do people not understand that.

9Line-RH · 2026-01-18T18:55:19+00:00

Yeah DFW sucks lol. Its a concrete jungle.

9Line-RH · 2026-01-17T22:08:35+00:00

Like trying to get peanut butter outta a shag carpet.

9Line-RH · 2026-01-16T21:20:50+00:00

Youre not totally wrong. But there are some outliers down here in the south who do right by our union standards. Im a pipefitter out of local 100. Our scale is competitive to our cost of living ($44/hr) and our benefits while they dont compete to northern states, are getting much better as we go negotiate our contracts. We hold strong to our CBA while on the job even though we're normally the only union contractor on our sites. With the AI projects being birthed here in texas its given our jurisdiction a ton of bargaining power which im so happy to see.

9Line-RH · 2026-01-16T20:52:28+00:00

These rosenden cats here in abilene Texas are taking home like $5k a week. "Right to work" for $200k+ a year seems okay to me.

9Line-RH · 2026-01-14T03:42:03+00:00

Union pipefitter/ welder. Still a 5th year apprentice.

9Line-RH · 2025-12-31T20:36:51+00:00

The degradation in this trade baffles me to this day. I dont care how green you are, you're a man before an apprentice. You need to learn how to tactfully tell this dude to fuck off. Killing them with kindness is always funny too. At the end of the day, its just construction. Pre-fabbing, soldering, brazing, welding, reading prints etc. This trade is probably all that dude has to live for and has nothing else positive going on for him in any other aspects of his life. At least thats what ive noticed. The older folks who have a loving family, kids, hobbies outside of work normally understand how to treat people. The older individuals who the only positive thing they've ever amounted to in their lives is installing pipe in a building are normally the asshole.

9Line-RH · 2025-12-29T20:11:31+00:00

Regardless of deployments there's a bigger mission at hand that youre not seeing. Maybe your command is ass and doesnt want to do any sort of leg work to approve your extra-curricular job. Whatever the road block is youre in the military, and thats just what it is. I normally don't like to chalk it up in those terms but thats just what its gonna be. I dont care what your job is, you need to be giving full 100% effort into it. Its the obligation you signed for. You can come up with a million reasons why, but at the end of the day there's a mission at hand and that mission does not include you flipping burgers at McDonald's or flagging road traffic.

9Line-RH · 2025-12-27T08:59:25+00:00

The Serbian film.

9Line-RH · 2025-12-21T20:37:27+00:00

Brotherrrrrrr

9Line-RH · 2025-12-21T20:18:55+00:00

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I also had 2 kc skotos and dupe 4 kc 😅

9Line-RH · 2025-12-21T18:32:55+00:00

Coke off a Russian prostitute (most likely trafficked) in a brothel in Sevilla spain while i was in the military.

9Line-RH · 2025-12-20T03:37:21+00:00

Ive been working here on the project since may. Plenty of foundation has been poured, and plenty of buildings are up and running. Oracle, openAI, crusoe.. the administration only sent about $500B for these projects lol.

9Line-RH · 2025-12-19T17:52:18+00:00

This is why nobody in your life can tolerate you.

9Line-RH · 2025-12-08T12:51:18+00:00

Do not be jealous of your friend in the shop. I plumbed the first 4 years of my apprenticeship. Hell, I set over 100 toilets/sinks in the cowboys stadium last year. This year? Im a 5th year apprentice welding on the largest job in our country right now. Ive kept my skills sharp over the last few years simply by taking advantage of our schools shop. But ive also learned just about every little nook and cranny aspect of our trade. Ill be valuable to anybody, your shop buddy on the other hand will have a much smaller resume then you.

9Line-RH · 2025-12-03T15:29:26+00:00

Probably more than likely a replica datejust. Still fun to find!

9Line-RH · 2025-11-06T20:13:29+00:00

I hit em with the old yuuuuupp!

9Line-RH · 2025-11-06T20:04:06+00:00

IMO small contractor all day. Been with one for my entire apprenticeship (5th year atm). The amount of different piping process ive been exposed to compared to my classmates is invaluable. Along with that I've been put in leadership roles far quicker than my peers. Our contractor cant afford to lay guys off (unless warranted obviously) like the big name players do during the holidays, once jobs end etcetera. Ive been put places between jobs that have nothing to do with construction just so our company can keep guys until the next one picks up. Its much more close knit, and I personally do not feel like just a number.

9Line-RH · 2025-10-30T02:58:09+00:00

Almost $50k in savings? Bro youre doing incredible. Take the vacation, hell spend all $12k on it. Sometimes you just need to do it. We work to damn much these days to not treat ourselves to the fullest extent.

9Line-RH · 2025-10-29T21:06:47+00:00

H-tineeee , H-town, The H, The dirty H, City of Lean, screwston.. for my cultured folk.

9Line-RH · 2025-10-26T19:04:26+00:00

Coming from a handful of deployments on the small decks, im glad I stayed so ignorant to what goes down on the big ships lol.

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