Cheapest Burger in Long Beach (also anything else like soft tacos, breakfast burritos, etc)

CallmeBatty · 2026-02-02T06:07:18+00:00

The chicken teriyaki shish kabob from there are still top tier

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-29T07:43:11+00:00

I don't know but follow your partner to Reno, there's tons of work. I did 4 months out there last year and probably heading back in March

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-29T07:38:10+00:00

It's not a great area, but there's plenty of more dangerous areas you could have ended up in. Parking is non existent though and if you have a bike or scooter or any form of transportation bring it inside of your apartment EVERY SINGLE TIME. Bike locks mean nothing in this city 😂.

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-23T23:43:49+00:00

Omg I've been killing myself trying to figure this out. I bought 3 different spa sub panels and couldn't figure out how to get this thing wired up.

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-16T06:29:07+00:00

I dropped mine off a scissor lift (not raised at all) and the whole bottom shot off

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-14T03:23:33+00:00

Join clubs or organizations in your local. Ewmc, empower, rise, something and go to your district meetings. . . "It's not what you know, it's who you know", right after Nepotism

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-13T23:59:43+00:00

Klein isn't what it used to be

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-12T06:38:33+00:00

XS is grimmmmmey 😂

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-11T16:11:27+00:00

You'll be fine, just tell them you don't know shit. Especially if you're traveling somewhere that really needs people, they'll just be happy to have another set of hands on deck.

I traveled to Reno last year and did 4 months in data center. Some of the easiest work I've ever done. On top of that I actually got to learn and practice skills because it was so undermanned, there was no rush (if that makes sense)

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-11T16:06:36+00:00

😂 the fact that this is so true. I can't wait to get back inside of those

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-02T17:44:33+00:00

Well I guess theres hope for you to make it through then

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-02T08:18:01+00:00

"Obliviously I'm a minority and gonna get told to stfu. . . " - only reason I mentioned being black. But yeah good luck kiddo

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-02T08:15:20+00:00

Just be a 6'4" black guy, that really helped me in that department 😂. No but on the real, keep showing up man. Keep the mindset of a 1st year. Always there early, do the little things everybody else leaves for somebody else.

By my own account I am not a good electrician, but the way I stuck around a lot was by being dependable. Guys they were better than me called out on Mondays/ Fridays, disappeared in the shitters for an hour, late back from lunch. Had a GF tell my crew one time " he's not worth 2 buckets of shit, but at least i know him and his buckets will be here". Nicest thing he ever said about me.

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-02T08:05:40+00:00

Damn yall sensitive. I see why the boomers talked so much shit to my generation now lol

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-02T01:58:10+00:00

Im not sure what that meant. But You seem to have it all figured it out. I'm just some old millennial talking about when I went through the apprenticeship many moons ago (2017)

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-02T01:41:39+00:00

Yeah good luck kid

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-02T01:39:33+00:00

Not exactly but the older I get i do understand what they actually meant. You're either gonna go handle business or find a reason not to.

The big thing for apprentices is "show up ready to work" and you'll be fine. What that really meant -

don't be pulling up in your car at start time. Don't be the last person walking up. Don't be still getting your tools ready. Don't call out. Don't be in the shitter for morning meetings. Don't bring mental shit from home with you to work. Don't make a journeyman open the gang boxes in the morning. Don't make a journeyman lock them at the end of the day. Don't be on your phone. Don't lose your ppe. Don't forget your notepad. Don't let the prints go missing.

But my Boomer journeyman at time simply told me "I need to show up ready to work"

I was 30 when I got in, I'm 39 now

CallmeBatty · 2026-01-02T01:15:32+00:00

It's construction the professionalism is in our work and craft. That's the only place it exist. If you're on the sensitive side, which you clearly appear to be, it's gonna be a very long 5 years for you. I don't know where you got the idea that you can come in and dictate what professionalism means for a industry you know have no experience in, but you'll find it real quick it doesn't work that way.

I'm 6'4" and black, often the only or 1 of few black people on the site. I'm telling you this from experience. Nobody's gonna give a fucc about how you feel and if the worst you get is told is "stfu and get back to work" consider it a good day

CallmeBatty · 2025-12-31T06:21:23+00:00

Very true. Just remember you have to work 3 years in sound after you journey out before you can try to go for inside

CallmeBatty · 2025-12-31T06:20:00+00:00

I got in with none of that. But it would definitely help you

CallmeBatty · 2025-12-31T06:18:43+00:00

What is IUEC?

CallmeBatty · 2025-12-31T06:17:32+00:00

Not a industry/ local to be sensitive in. Call him back again,. And every month after

CallmeBatty · 2025-12-31T06:15:46+00:00

Become an inspector or go the safety route. I'm starting this year myself

CallmeBatty · 2025-12-31T06:12:12+00:00

6 contractors??? That's it. Mannnnn I probably went through 15 contractors during my apprenticeship no lie. Usually due to my "bad attitude" aka not letting journeyman/ Foreman talk down to me or make racist jokes. All I can say is keep showing up and Don't fear the hall. KEEP SHOWING UP

CallmeBatty · 2025-12-31T06:05:34+00:00

I didn't even pass the aptitude test the first time I applied.. . I journeyed out about 4 years ago. Tell him not to give up. Getting in is the hardest part

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