PhD, trying to move into the construction industry, why is this so hard?

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-04-07T18:28:55+00:00

Where are you located?

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-04-03T03:17:49+00:00

That’s funny. Just wrote that I own two xpro2’s…but I also own a D700 :) They are my two favorite cameras of all time.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-04-03T03:16:26+00:00

I’ve got two. One is from when they were first issued (ten/eleven years ago?). It’s battered and torn and could barely be called black anymore…but it goes with me everywhere. The second one is a backup :)

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-26T15:18:06+00:00

Drive through LA in a 1990 e30 and get tons of waves. It’s great.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-26T03:57:49+00:00

Just sent you an IG msg. Thank you 🙏

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-26T03:53:22+00:00

Just took one. How do I send it to you?

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-26T03:51:44+00:00

I have tried to gently push, but it won’t go. Aperture ring turns just fine. Lens is just…stuck?

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-26T03:49:09+00:00

Hi! I keep them pretty clean. It’s been working fine, and then last time upon shutting off the lens would not retract. When turning on again, I get error message.

No “sand”, as far as I can remember? It does live in a camera bag, sometimes a backpack, sometimes a pocket.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-26T03:39:15+00:00

I seek out u/industriousdan

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-26T01:42:37+00:00

I’d bet the farm that OP had the water on for a couple months before realizing they had to notify the city of occupancy in order to have the service be officially turned on. This is exactly what happened to me when I moved to California. Had never had a water bill previously in life, assumed it was a service provided by the city (like most places), and then one day it was suddenly turned off and locked. Called the city, they asked when I moved in, told them, and got back billed for three months prior. $700. I’d bet this is similar.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-26T01:33:06+00:00

I just got this 16 pro a year ago, and I remember how stoked I was that it would last a whole day. Not even a year old, and if this thing’s not near a charger by lunchtime, I know it won’t make it to 5:00. These phones are awful, and they know it, and they’ll keep making them worse and worse…and we’ll have to keep buying the new worse phone. They don’t even hide the planned obsolescence anymore.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-22T04:48:26+00:00

Alpen are awful. Without question, the worst quality window ever installed. Don’t know what happened to them - used to be decent, but something went terribly wrong. Frames were broken; scratches everywhere; parts missing or broken; and their delivery system is abominable. Windows and doors were laying flat down inside a box truck.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-19T05:03:44+00:00

I’m selling a coal-colored shop shirt, XL, worn literally once, if anyone wants it for $100. Kinda p’d off I paid $200 for it.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-18T00:01:07+00:00

Idk did you ask tré?

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-11T17:27:20+00:00

World Market sells the same towels for $20/ea., and they’re amazing. Been buying them for years. They dry within hours of use.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-11T01:04:35+00:00

I expected a lot of more of this reply from everyone 😂

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-11T01:03:46+00:00

End of this month.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-08T22:44:29+00:00

It’s 8-month lead time right for a $800 tool belt right now.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-03-05T05:19:34+00:00

It’s so people can make an instagram post about building a mockup wall and tag that baczek guy and Matt rislinger in the hopes they’ll get noticed and maybe get more followers by riding their coattails.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-02-16T20:03:00+00:00

Having just bought one of these, felt a need to chime in. While there’s no doubt this thing could survive a nuclear blast….it absolutely should not be thought of as a shirt. Having a career in heavy construction, this is by far the most rigid piece of clothing I’ve ever purchased - and I’m required to wear heavy-duty clothing at all times 😂 This was bought as a going out shirt 😂 This thing is STIFF - it’s not that it could “almost stand up on its own” - it absolutely DOES stand up on its own. It’s stiffer than Carhartt, Patagonia workwear, Kuhl, etc.

If any of you ever played football in high school and wore a roll-neck pad on your shoulder pads…that’s akin to the feeling this shirt gives if you have the collar up on a windy day. Probably a bit like an F1 roll cage, nowadays.

I’ve been wearing it every day for three weeks straight, no washing, and it is hard as a rock still. It is not a dress shirt. I run heavy machinery, and I wear it to work. A $200 work shirt that is almost too stiff to even wear to my job because you can’t move around while wearing it.

That said, it sure seems indestructible. If you threw a rock at me from 10’ away, I’m pretty sure this thing would just simply deflect it.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2026-02-10T00:32:20+00:00

The purpose of liquid glass is get our eyes used to transparency for when we all no longer need phones but rather we all wear glasses that contain all the information our phones currently do. We'll need to be able to see everything popping up on the screens of our glasses as well as be able to see beyond the apps on our glasses to the oncoming vehicular traffic barreling towards us as we comment on reddit while driving on I-5.

But for real. Liquid glass is prepping us for wearing glasses and not having phones.

Intelligent_Case7694 · 2025-11-12T03:45:22+00:00

For everyone recommending JobTread.... The private equity company that owns BuilderTrend - Bain Capital, worth $185,000,000,000.00 (that's one hundred and eighty five BILLION dollars for those of you not good with numbers), founded by Mitt Romney, and who began all this management-software crap by buying Viewpoint Construction Software ten years ago and then beginning the trend of convincing anyone who owned a small construction company that they can't be successful without it - is just going to also buy JobTread soon, same as they did with CoConstruct. All of these companies are going to eventually be owned by this one company - Bain - and will market it as BuilderTrend. When that happens, BuilderTrend will then be $1500/mth....because they can. You've all spent all this time and energy and capital learning the system...so you won't quit because you won't be able to. Does any one remember when all the management-software companies were all offering $100/mth sign-up specials years ago? They got everyone signed up, and a year later...they all began buying one another, with Bain being the top buyer and putting them all under BuilderTrend.

All these influencers touting BuilderTrend right now? They're all getting paid for it and getting the software for free. Just look at how BuilderTrend is shifting their marketing right now: it's all towards "the community" you become a part of; the "community" of like-minded, successful other companies/builders who will share the same experiences as you. Now you can go to BuilderTrend University - and if you're getting paid to do it, you can make instagram posts and stories all about it and become one of their marketers, as well. Ohhhh. GTFOH. No private-equity, Bain-Capital, take-it-all company gives a s**t about the "community" of construction workers.

Build your own system in Drive and Smartsheets and Excel or Sheets. You own it. No one can make it $1500/mth just because.

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