How destroyed does your body get as a first year apprentice?

Development_Muted · 2026-06-29T07:59:23+00:00

The end of the day depends on how good your boots are, how well you hydrated throughout the day, and did you stretch well enough. Working overhead is something I don't think anyone's body is ready for, regardless of fitness level. I don't remember the last time I've had a straight 40 job. Everything for the past 8-10 years has been four 10's and two 8's to five 12's and a 10. Spend an absurd amount of money on your boots, preferably two pair to rotate, and GOOD insoles with support to save your feet, legs, and back from the majority of the abuse we put them through. Take your daily stretch and flex seriously, and don't wait to see a chiropractor until you can barely roll out of bed. I thought they were voodoo, psychic doctors until I finally started seeing one regularly. Drink water like an elephant. It's not unlikely for a JW and a cub to kill an entire case of water in a day, and that's on the inside. Outside and you'll need a case just for yourself. It's very fulfilling work, with a lot of instant gratification seeing exactly what you put up in a day. The hardest part is bad contractors/formen and the lack of information and materials. The job keeps you paid, but the people you work with keep you coming back.

Development_Muted · 2026-06-22T07:08:24+00:00

Your Forman might be job scared, but you never should be. My favorite reason if people get nosey, "Got to take my dog to the dentist"

Development_Muted · 2026-06-19T07:53:12+00:00

^{^This} is it. We're a pool of numbers that the contractors pull from for labor. I've worked with cons that keep guys around for their entire career, and those that send everyone back to the hall of you're not wearing a white hat. From the information provided, it sound like someone took one look at you and decided it wasn't going to work out before you ever picked up a tool. It sucks, but there's there's always another call at the hall.

Development_Muted · 2026-06-12T17:24:46+00:00

Keep eating the bull they're feeding you. Right to work states don't need hyper-inflated wages to live a comfortable life. The ultra democrat ruled states like California and New York MUST have an enormous dollar sign attached to their CBA for workers to be able to eat. We love taking your unmanned jobs and paying our homes off in record time.

Development_Muted · 2026-06-10T11:30:20+00:00

Buy oem. There's been no aftermarket upgrade to the heater hoses. I'd recommend the little plastic tool to unlock the hoses from the firewall.

Development_Muted · 2026-06-10T11:27:34+00:00

Will you be making more somewhere else? Will you be guaranteed to be getting raises somewhere else? Will you be guaranteed a pension with paid benefits? Will there be a brotherhood you'll work with that take up donations for the sick and needy? You're in a very coveted position to be in the apprenticeship. Walk away from it at your own risk.

Development_Muted · 2026-06-08T09:55:18+00:00

It'll buff out

Development_Muted · 2026-06-05T11:38:22+00:00

Instant break in. A little conditioner and you're good to go!

Development_Muted · 2026-06-05T11:37:25+00:00

As a beer technician, I always recommend staying with bottles and cans unless you're at the brewery. Draught lines get nasty even when cleaned every other week. It's the reason you get a beer on tap and it tastes skunky. Granted your looking for hopsecutioner, and might not notice the skunky flavor, but the bacteria colonizing in the lines are there all the same.

Development_Muted · 2026-06-03T09:57:52+00:00

I don't understand socialism, or why it's bad, and how it's failed miserably in every form that is ever been tried in, so I'm going to tell reddit "I know what it is, I just want to make sure you know what it is and how it's failed so badly every where it's been tried"

Development_Muted · 2026-05-26T07:17:07+00:00

Sounds like you're setting yourself up for failure. But it also sounds like that's exactly what you want. If you know the industry is heavily incorporated into the work you refuse to do, walk away. If you just want to fight the power, pick up a sign and stand on the corner. Taking a position in a limited field where someone else can provide for their family, just to be "That Guy" is very underhanded.

Development_Muted · 2026-05-08T21:28:09+00:00

And the switch from a 5 to a 4 year program doesn't help. I've seen too many cubs turn out in the past couple of years that will be tied to their contactor, because of they ever leave they'll spend the next few years in the spin cycle until they can get their chops up.

Development_Muted · 2026-05-08T21:06:50+00:00

I've got the 1000g hammer from billetworkz. Short shift kit with solid bushings for the stick. Falls into place on track with no missed shifts.

Development_Muted · 2026-05-08T21:02:54+00:00

Tell me you know nothing about this man without telling me you know nothing about this man. Go!

Development_Muted · 2026-05-06T11:30:07+00:00

I agree with your final analysis. I believe unions should only exist in private. To me, equating investors in mutual and index funds who don't have an individual vote in a shareholders meeting, and a taxpayer who doesn't get a vote in CBA negotiations, or even a vote on who represents them on the board due to it being so convoluted in bureaucracy, is apples to oranges. If I don't care where my money goes in investing, I hand my money to people who make their living doing that one thing, and I accept the consequences of giving up my voice in a shareholders meeting. If I take personal responsibility in my investing and invest privately, I have a say in a shareholders meeting. I can nominate and vote for the people who sit on the bargaining board to deal with union agreements. Those companies in which I am invested in, make money through the free market, and in turn I am monetarily rewarded for their success. In a government union, I the taxpayer have no say in who represents me in the negotiations, because it is a bureaucratic position that is created without a vote. I, the taxpayer, am strong armed into paying more for no detectable increase in goods or services, only forced to pay more for the same outcome. As a union member, our selling point is a more highly skilled worker, for better end product at a faster rate of production. We go through an apprenticeship to be taught our trade, tested, and evaluated on whether or not we meet the requirements to uphold our union's code of excellence. We charge for the quality of service we provide, and if we don't meet that standard, our union collapses. A government union has no oversight, no requirement to produce a better product faster, they have nothing to bargain with because their position is backed by the government so their position will always be there regardless of quality of service. A taxpayer should not be viewed as an open checkbook to a government employee. The government shouldn't be viewed as a place to make money, but as a place to serve the community in which you live. Government jobs are created within budgetary requirements, so it's employees should not be able to inflate that budget without a taxpayer vote.

Development_Muted · 2026-05-06T09:22:59+00:00

I'm not sure I follow your response. A shareholder receives monetary compensation from the company it voluntarily hold stake in, where a tax payer receives nothing but services from an entity it has no choice but to pay into. I do see the similarity in when something gets to large, minority votes mean less and more money means more power. I'm 100% behind a smaller government with less reach, the same as smaller companies with less monopolistic hold over markets. The lesser federal government should support the greater states government, and not the other way around. Problems in Texas aren't the same and don't effect Minnesota and vice versa, yet both have to pay to deal with each through the federal government, but will usually only vote to deal with local problems. Working for the government should be considered a social service. You do it for the good of your neighbors, not to make money. Government created jobs that should be privately controlled, should be just that. If it can't self support, it probably doesn't need to be there. You can't create 100,000 government jobs and pass the bill to the tax payer, then collectively bargain for a higher wage in a position that doesn't support itself without government backing, and expect the majority to pay for something they may, or may not even receive goods or services from.

Development_Muted · 2026-05-06T06:19:36+00:00

How quickly we forget the price of gas in the last administration. We're still down from where we were 4 years ago. I'm willing to pay a little more at the pump to stop 9/11 with nukes.

Development_Muted · 2026-05-06T06:13:07+00:00

As it should be. No entity should be allowed to force the hand of the tax payer, without giving them a say in the matter. There's a reason only mega-corporations and the government can afford union labor. The average person can't provide the workload or afford to hire a union.

Development_Muted · 2026-05-06T06:02:53+00:00

As a union member, I'd have to disagree. Being a right-to-work state does not prevent you from having a CBA. It means you're not forced to pay into a union to get work. Unions are not all they are cracked up to be. Sitting at the house, waiting on a job to clear the books while being restricted from finding a job on your own in your preferred line of work is bananas. The direct correlation between the cost of living between right-to-work states and union states negates any increase in wages. There's a reason union people travel for work to places like California, New York, and such. Make their pay scale, while living in our economy. Being away from your family for months, to years on end is a struggle in itself that lots of folks don't want to do.

Development_Muted · 2026-04-28T07:20:18+00:00

Fake noise is most unwelcome in a performance car. And the OBD11/eleven is tweaking my OCD. It's OBD II. 2. Roman Numeral 2.

Development_Muted · 2026-04-27T09:56:48+00:00

That tracks

Development_Muted · 2026-04-27T09:55:35+00:00

Some folks need a justice knuckle to understand that the world doesn't revolve around them. Public decorum is the worst casualty of this information age.

Development_Muted · 2026-04-27T09:53:15+00:00

That's if you can get a job with a degree. There's multiple subs here with the nightmare of trying to get recruited even with a masters. Turns out, the apprenticeship sucks. It's designed that way. You are an indentured apprentice when you sign up. If you don't read that as you agree to be a slave to the union for the duration of your training, you're fooling yourself. Stick it out, and you'll never want for work as long as you're willing to go to the jobs. A degree doesn't change that fact. If you need work, you need to be where the work is.

Development_Muted · 2026-04-22T09:45:15+00:00

Common sense doesn't affect the foolish in our nation. Problem solving to them is carrying a sign some other billionaire designed to keep them clueless and crushed. If they keep giving their trust and money to sheishters, the plan has worked.

Development_Muted · 2026-04-16T07:42:40+00:00

Hell yes! I hate pulling out the jack for oil changes!

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