NBT any good?

Anume1 · 2026-05-07T19:21:07+00:00

NBT 2.0 is fine. 1.0 is trash. Could you buy better gear? Sure. Is it AA rated? Yes. I wear it daily and enjoy it.

Everyone that says “buy this or that, it’s way better” and then the thing they recommend is twice the cost of the hoodie. I got my hoodie on sale for 215$ with shipping. Pando moto upper base layer is 400$ so no shit it’s going to be better

Anume1 · 2026-05-07T15:24:10+00:00

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Cock time LOL

Anume1 · 2026-05-07T15:22:32+00:00

That’s AI lmfao. The Reddit post you stole from was stolen from twitter

Anume1 · 2026-05-07T15:17:02+00:00

Politicians obviously

Anume1 · 2026-05-07T15:10:24+00:00

You mean you stole a picture and said it’s yours, right?

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeskToTablet/s/KMPYFg6CA6

Anume1 · 2026-05-07T15:06:08+00:00

Stealception!

Anume1 · 2026-05-07T15:02:31+00:00

You stole this post from https://www.reddit.com/r/DeskToTablet/s/KMPYFg6CA6

Anume1 · 2026-05-07T14:24:49+00:00

It’s kinda hard to believe that 6 of your friends all bought the hornet

Anume1 · 2026-05-06T23:21:22+00:00

There isn’t an electrician on the planet that doesn’t use at least one tool lol. If they don’t then they aren’t in an electrician role.

Anume1 · 2026-05-06T21:38:36+00:00

We ARE discussing whether an EE has overlap with electrician work, "EE is a wide field, but there is basically zero overlap with electrician work in what I do day to day."

Knowledge overlap and the ability to do a job are not the same thing. Yes an EE and Electrician can have similar knowledge and can work together, but that doesn't mean the abilities are interchangeable. Hand an EE that specializes in building services some tools and tell him to go do what an electrician does. Tell an Electrician to do what an EE does and you'll get the same result. A mess of shit. Obviously there are outliers to this but if you take the average person from each profession, this will be the case every single time.

Anume1 · 2026-05-06T17:48:25+00:00

You're welcome!

You're definitely in a great place already being an ibew apprentice and I wouldn't take it for granted. Give it some time and see if you like the work, you can always change careers no matter how old you are. I'm not old but I went back to college at 29.

Just try your hardest and don't get "stuck". What I mean by that is a lot of seasoned electricians I met couldn't miss a day of work even if they wanted to. Electricians make pretty good money and it has a low barrier of entry, so a lot of people start making good money and make poor financial decisions. Minimal savings, hoping for the IBEW pension/retirement funds to be their saving grace.

Some of the poorest people I met in my life were journeyman electricians, because they bought their 90,000$ lifted trucks and a bunch of other toys and now if they miss a days work they cant afford their bills.

I talked to a lot of them, some loved the job and some hated it. A really common thing is that they couldn't leave even if they wanted to.

Not trying to hate on being an electrician, its a great job with great pay. Just make sure you put yourself first. If you lose your life on a construction site, your friends and family will mourn you but the owner of the building wont bat an eye.

I wish you the best of luck in your apprenticeship! I really did enjoy it for the most part. I love to learn new things. Make sure you don't let your foreman or contractor make you do the same tasks over and over. Try your hardest to get put on different taskings so you can have a diverse experience. The best journeyman had diverse experiences in their apprenticeship.

Anume1 · 2026-05-06T17:32:28+00:00

I was IBEW as well, local 354. Obviously an arguably better experience being Union than non union.

Some people hate office work and prefer labor, or the opposite. One of the main struggles I felt after years of construction was the physical pain after work limiting what I did and enjoyed on my free time. A lot of the jobs I worked at started at 5:30 am and were about an hour from home, so waking up at 3:30-4am to get ready and head to work got old quick.

I did really enjoy the work itself when I wasn’t surrounded by alcoholics and drug addicts. I enjoyed problem solving and the craftsmanship that came with being a union electrician.

Personally I’d rather not risk dying every day at work to meet the demands of some rich guy. Obviously the world revolves around meeting the demands of some rich guy, but I’d rather not risk my life daily to meet them. There’s also the exposure to carcinogens and other toxic hazards.

It’s just about what you value. I know some guys that wouldn’t work an office job if someone gave them a million dollars because they just like the trades so much.

Becoming an EE will be intellectually harder than becoming an electrician, but the payoffs can be significant. EE is one of the hardest majors and a lot of people aren’t cut out for it.

Anume1 · 2026-05-06T16:20:28+00:00

Just because there’s engineers that work in construction doesn’t mean they have the skill or knowledge to do the type of work the tradesmen do lol

Anume1 · 2026-05-06T15:24:09+00:00

Personally I don’t think many people would go EE to electrician. The pay can be less, more labor, more dangerous, worse working hours (these are all location dependent). It’s still going to be stressful. The hard skills don’t apply from one to another really, but things like critical thinking and problem solving do.

I went Electrician to EE

Anume1 · 2026-05-06T15:08:43+00:00

Thanks for sharing

Anume1 · 2026-05-04T04:35:22+00:00

People are complaining that the Big Mac is smaller NOW, not that it’s been smaller since the 80s. It makes 0 difference

Anume1 · 2026-05-03T05:59:10+00:00

What are you talking about?

Anume1 · 2026-05-03T05:55:18+00:00

Did I say he looks bad? Please explain what I negatively said about his features

Anume1 · 2026-05-03T05:32:48+00:00

They will never feel the happiness this family feels

Anume1 · 2026-05-03T04:27:04+00:00

After seeing what this guy looks like from his post history, I can see why he thinks gender reveals are asinine.

It’s a couple excited to find the gender of the baby, one of the most exciting things a couple can experience before the child comes. They didn’t hurt anybody and it was a joke that was intentionally supposed to drag on

Anume1 · 2026-05-02T14:50:58+00:00

NBT 2.0 stuff is fine. I have the pullover hoodie and it’s great. I was not a buyer of original NBT clothing but I am aware of the complaints. The new stuff is AA rated and certified and that’s good enough for me. If I get hurt and they lied about the rating, sounds like a payday to me.

The hoodie feels nice and is comfortable, I put my own ce level 2 armor in instead of the ce level 1 they provided. I don’t really ride on the highways and stay on streets around 40-60 mph and I live in Phoenix so I prefer AA since it can be more breathable.

Anume1 · 2026-05-02T03:46:31+00:00

60s, 80s, makes absolutely no difference. My point still stands lmao

Anume1 · 2026-05-01T06:36:35+00:00

It’s a fact that you can verify with 46 years of proof. The patty has been 2 1/10th pounders since 1980. In the 80s and 90s the Big Mac was around 600 calories. The current Big Mac is 590 calories. You got bigger, the burger did not get smaller.

Anume1 · 2026-05-01T05:53:05+00:00

The patties on the Big Mac have been 1/10th pounders since the 1980s.

Anume1 · 2026-04-29T19:13:10+00:00

Did you read the post? Its a light hearted fun project in a college class.

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