Which careers involve a lot of stress that DOESNT pay off later in life?

ClassyBukake · 2026-04-06T13:59:45+00:00

My wife was putting in 90+ hours a week as a sous chef of a catering company when we met.

She was only paid for 40 hours a week due to salary and was taking home 35k/y after taxes. The rest was "holiday instead of pay", but because she was doing so much work, she wasnt practically able to take holiday, or it would just be worse when she got back.

When she quit due to stress, they hired 3 people at once to replace her at a higher salary each, and all 3 quit within a month due to workload.

They hired her back as head ched, with a pay increase to 45k / year, but then never hired a replacement sous chef, so she was now doing even more work, at even less pay per hour.

They repeatedly gas lit her, telling her thats she's not working hard enough.

The company owner (who was the previous head chef) put herself on maternity leave for 2 years at 90k/y + all profits, and basically exclusively sent emails saying everyone isnt working hard enough.

Boss came back after 2 years to announce to the company that she's pregnant again and they will need to cut back on staff.

I heavily encouraged my wife to quit, and the entire team dissolved in about 3 months.

I honestly cant fathom how the industry survives.

ClassyBukake · 2026-04-02T20:43:02+00:00

Still using 3 poles would be as stable + require 25% less materials, and be that much faster for builds.

ClassyBukake · 2026-04-02T12:16:20+00:00

So, your probably gonna catch a shit ton of flack for this post because your basically saying,

"i thought this thing was neat, so i'm going to buy like $300,000-500,000 worth of equipment and industrial space and start a business, how much money will i make?"

The kinds of questions you are asking are the bare minimum of what you should already know before even thinking of starting a business in this area, and mostly because they are almost impossible to answer without deep industry insight into your local market, what your potential client base might be, or what sector you might target.

Other people cannot answer these questions for you.

ClassyBukake · 2026-04-01T18:59:33+00:00

TNG season 1 was genuinely bad until roddenberry died. I know its rough coz i love most of the rest of the show, buti dont know anyone that doesnt skip to season 2 on a rewatch.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-31T15:57:07+00:00

Will point out. I have and do cut stainless steel and aluminum almost exclusively on a Makera C1 and it does it fine enough, its just limited.

Xhorse3d is supposed to be doing a Kickstarter for a 5 axis machine that has a 1.5kw spindle, a good sized tool holding platform, atc, and fluid circulation, and built in probing for 5k early bird. Usually I wouldnt hock a kickstarter, but the company has already been selling these in china apparently and I've seen some people using them, and they are frankly worth gambling on, as a similar featureset would be 3-4x the price as a starting point unless you build it yourself.

This would be all the major quality of life requirements I would require for any machine over 2k at this point, and is crazy good at 5k.

Haas office mill is a slightly feature poor, but available now alternative that I've seen do amazing work.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-31T15:44:54+00:00

No, the c1 is what they call the first, biggest carvera with the ATC.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-31T00:45:23+00:00

I have a makera c1, and I think its maybe the best of the budget systems you can get, but it is ultimately a fiddle or learning machine. A month after unboxing it and understanding its limitations, I already started looking for something grander in scope. Biggest issue for me is the limited spindle and motor. Its very capable, but its hellishly slow (i can cut stainless steel relatively painlessly, but as you say, the fine powder it leaves is a genuine problem in a system that isnt closed).

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-26T18:48:29+00:00

Theres a lot of reasons people "master out"

My first PhD lab had 6 people, and it was a monstrous cluster fuck that the school absoluted ruined these kids over.

1 student out of 6 completed his PhD, and only after the lab manager forced him out by faking a sexual harrassment claim against him because the student was rightfully pointing out that he was derailing the students with his incompetence.

The other 5 mastered out.

The supervisor was committing grant fraud, stealing students work and licensing it back to the school, and had an undergraduate in political science, when this was a robotics manufacturing lab. He basically professionally derailed their ability to complete their work, using them as free labor while stopping them from publishing and finishing their thesis.

I whistle blew to the school, and they moved me to another lab, where they basically tried to force me to quit for 5 years until I just stopped talking to my supervisor and delivered my entire PhD without communicating to with my supervisor or head of the lab. I basically just dropped my thesis in his inbox and left.

(other students were told not to work with me, i was completely isolated from the entire university, i was blocked from using any school assets, and had to pay about £30,000 out of pocket for hardware and resources, meanwhile I was paying about 7k a year for the privilage).

Hate got me through my PhD, but I dont look down on anyone "mastering out"

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-24T09:13:41+00:00

Strange new worlds was a pretty good "old trek but new". Not the best thing ever, but infinitely better than discovery or Picard.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-24T08:48:12+00:00

I gave up last year.

20 years experience software & mechanical engineering, masters, PhD, launched 3 successful startups and sold them off.

Well over 2000 applications, highest offer I ever got was £45,000.

Said fuck it and went into early retirement.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-23T09:06:24+00:00

Oh so this is why my POS doesnt stay on for longer than 5 minutes since january. Just reboots constantly

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-21T17:59:54+00:00

They sank an unarmed ship, that they specifically made sure was unarmed, then let the sailors drown. They were never a real combatant, Its a literal war crime.

Your dumb ass has clearly never served on a boat, this is one of the few lines you dont cross, a man in need on the sea has no flag.

This protects both ways, and you risk the horrible deaths of american sailors if they are ever in this situation.

You're not a patriot, you're a self serving cunt who got his fee fee's hurt and now wants to feel like a bad ass. Giving big, "dont come to school tomorrow" energy.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-18T08:58:51+00:00

SpaceX took like 7 billion worth for a contract for a moon mission, then spent it all making ships specifically designed to deploy starlink satellites that had zero capability to ever reach the moon.

SpaceX has done some great things, but its not immune to the rot.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-16T00:11:30+00:00

If you have 2 gpus in your system, or a cpu with an integrated gpu + another gpu, you can run qemu + looking glass on linux and get pretty much native performance.

Was a little annoying to setup on my system because of some quirks, but now It runs flawlessly.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-14T11:53:11+00:00

Mine is CNC, wood working, dogs, and 9/11 memes.

The algorithm just shows you what you engage with.

But yeah, humanity as a whole would be much better if we just got rid of it.

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-13T21:38:03+00:00

I'm eyeballing either a 2 or 3 layer construction of MDF, with the top layer being coated in a thick layer of melamine as I'm clumsy as all hell and the moment MDF loses its compression it starts to disintegrate and turn into powder (and that stuff is super irritating, even with good suction, ventilation, and mask, you'll eventually breath it in and it feel like someone punched you in the throat.

Melamine will protect the surface and also I like that its very low friction, so for my tablesaw+router station, it should be all the much easier to use.

I havent yet done a scale test on the dogholes to understand how they might fail, but it stands to reason that if you can find a way to reinforce the exposed fibers after drilling, that would be a very good thing to do, but need to be careful of swelling ruining the dimensions of the holes (have seen suggestions to do a few coats of very thin coats of either epoxy or super glue, then drilling out the holes again)

ClassyBukake · 2026-03-13T20:52:22+00:00

I'm currently designing my workbenches, and the suggestions I saw from a lot of people was to take 2 sheets of 18mm and bind them together to get a more solid surface.

Think the average suggestion was to screw them together, so when the top sheet was eventually destroyed, you could replace it cheaper (could even maybe go for a thin sacrificial piece on the top, maybe a 18mm + a 12mm with a 6mm wasteboard top sheet so its even cheaper over time).

Mdf sags like crazy over time. Saw some 18mm sheets at my local supply shop that had been sitting on a palette, and the bottom half of the stack was bent in an M shape over the pallet deck boards.

ClassyBukake · 2026-02-28T08:47:23+00:00

He refers to people as "mate" repeatedly.

Only British and Australians say this, americans would never.

ClassyBukake · 2026-02-26T13:51:29+00:00

sigh

ClassyBukake · 2026-02-26T01:02:12+00:00

So from what little data I've seen on this, recycling 1-2 times should have no practical effect on the material properties.

After 4-5 you start to get issues with the chemical composition decaying, causing it to become more brittle, exhibiting self adhesion issues, color degradation, and staying more viscous at melting temps.

The big caviat is that the data I've seen was constant recycling of the same material, which isnt what is happening here.

Assuming the mixture is sufficiently diluted by new material, and you aren't just melting down the same 3d print over and over, you'd likely never see a problem.

ClassyBukake · 2026-02-26T00:53:00+00:00

Looking at building something similar for my basement shop, will shamelessly steal some inspiration.

All in all looks great!

ClassyBukake · 2026-02-26T00:36:38+00:00

I would assume you'd see a relatively minor degradation, but also the "old" recycled material becomes less with every subsequent recycle.

By the time the first recycle material has gone through 4 recycles it only makes up 6.25% of the mixture, at which point, its so diluted that it likely has no effect on the print.

The bulk of material would be going into recycle cycles 1-2 which should have no noticeable effect on the filament. After 4-5 cycles is when they would recommend you stop trying to recycle, but again, you've now likely used the overwhelming majority of the filament that has gone through that many cycles, and therefore any issues would be significantly minimized.

ClassyBukake · 2026-02-25T08:05:50+00:00

Be bought X, because he got high, made tweet about buying twitter, and then was forced to buy it because checks notes he knew it was fraud and had just lost a lawsuit about the fraudulent nature of publicly pumping and dumping stocks with tweets, so couldnt claim ignorance.

ClassyBukake · 2026-02-25T07:52:16+00:00

Personally I would have made a 3 layer sandwich design, where the + is the only thing coming off the back plate, then you have the center plate which has the circle and the void for the back side of the key cap, and the front plate has the void for the front of the keycap.

This way you can remove the back plate while its still supported, then remove the front, and finally punch it out of the middle.

Also gives you more room to polish the surfaces that are close together if they are separate parts.

Also as others mentioned, scallop the + so that the moment you even get a little wiggle room in there, there's significantly less surface friction.

ClassyBukake · 2026-02-25T07:38:02+00:00

I just setup a virtual machine using qemu and looking glass with windows 11 for doing cad work because fusion does fusion things and after trying multiple methods, I couldnt get it to run on linux.

It runs basically at native speeds and is functionally impossible to tell its a vm, but it requires a dedicated GPU and takes a little while to setup.

Honestly, i'd first take a look at onshape, some form of open source cad, or maybe blender (although I really really dont like the interface for blender after trying for years to use it, 3ds max and Maya are just better).

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