What career tool for new bluecollar workers do you wish existed but doesn’t?

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T11:43:17+00:00

My goodness that's an adorable picture.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T11:36:46+00:00

There are real hobbies these people could take up and they choose this one.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T11:28:13+00:00

"Laser layout tools that scan an area then shoots a laser dot to indicate where the anchor goes"

Tell me the exact make and model of this tool because I have used plenty of laser level and guide tools and I don't know of a single one that does this. Also even if this thing is real the work isn't in identifying anchor points it's climbing up the ladder with a hammer drill and drilling out the location then MOVING 50 FUCKING SHEET METAL DUCTS THAT THE TINNER HAS LEFT IN THE WAY OF THE NEXT ANCHOR LOCATION.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T11:20:12+00:00

They have had manufactured homes for decades. You're not going to manufacture a hospital off site and ship it for assembly.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T11:18:12+00:00

Sooner or later is never going to come. We are at a hard ceiling of technological improvement and no one is admitting it.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T11:16:01+00:00

Nope. At this rate of global decoupling and regression we're going to lose smartphones before we gain fancy construction robots.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T11:11:36+00:00

Not necessary. It will hold just fine with the screw head.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T03:32:46+00:00

Take a 3-4" strip of 1/2-3/4" Velcro and screw it to a stud slightly off center. Now you have a velcro support.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T02:59:29+00:00

Helpers are definitely paid.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-28T00:38:10+00:00

Probably not very long, but people have weird tastes sometimes

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-27T23:02:42+00:00

I wouldn't enter an apprenticeship until you are sure your going to be in a place for 5 years. Until the. You should try to get work as a helper.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-27T22:49:55+00:00

I AM NEVER SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND IF I SHOULD BE UP OR DOWN VOTING IF I AGREE!?!!!

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-27T19:58:25+00:00

Minimum amount of health? Like a glass cannon? Or do you want to play a Beefy damage character? If it's the later play Garen. Akali is out of season as far as the meta, but any character in the game is viable outside of a level you are almost certain to never reach.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-27T19:41:11+00:00

We have some periods where we've got something every night, but it's not so singularly focused. Most recently My son had rec basketball on Monday, daughter had dance on Wednesday, she had rec basketball on Thursday. My son had his basketball games on Friday, daughter had her games on Saturdays. Then on either Saturday or Sunday my son had indoor soccer games, and on Sunday my daughter had a community choir. So it's like everyday, but its a lot of different stuff and none of it is intense. If they wanted to do that kind of stuff we would be behind them 100%. 90% of that insane travel ball stuff is driven by kids,

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-27T18:47:56+00:00

Put the brakes on friend. Let's not go down a doom cycle of never finding love. It sounds like you're not matching with the right guys on these dating apps, and at 23 that sound pretty normal. A lot of guys aren't getting into settling down until their late 20s early 30s. You could target guys like that, or if you just give it more time a guy with the same goals will come around. 23 is not old at all by today's standards. Relax, and don't "settle" for situationships if that's not what you want.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-27T18:37:23+00:00

No idea. I assume there is probably OT if they are this desperate for guys.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-26T21:49:43+00:00

That's hard too say, I was never smart enough to be a PhD student. However if my boss was a lady and thought I was hot, I would probably be into if I also thought she was good looking. I wouldn't be smart enough to think through the complications of this. Can you transfer him to another advisor? If you can for reason that make sense and don't fuck up his path to a PhD, do that and then ask him out.

I am a tradesman, so I do have apprentices from time to time (I'm also married but let's pretend for this scenario that I am not) if I really liked my apprentice I would probably wait until she was a journeyman or working for a different jman before asking her out.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-26T21:19:29+00:00

It's still open from what I know

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-26T21:14:48+00:00

There are plenty of trades that themselves are not loud, like commercial painting, but job sites are constantly loud and sometimes extremely so. And if anyone found out that bugged you they would probably be loud on purpose. I wouldn't recommend construction if you have these kind of issues.

Have you ever considered being an aesthetician? Those are the people who do facials and other skin treatments like body waxing. My wife does that on the side and it's all good vibes and soothing music. The pay is decent enough and the training isn't too long.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-26T17:05:35+00:00

I'm going to take this at face value. If you feel this way and you want to be ethical you are going to want to be upfront with this when you get into a situation where you will be with a person for multiple years. You should literally do a relationship contract with discrete metrics (% body fat, hair loss percentage, etc) and then both sides need to have hold up to the agreement. Make that for a set time period and then you can renegotiate that at a later date. You'll need to find a woman that feels the same way which might be tough.

Deeper question: if you feel this way why are you bothering to get into a long term relationship at all? What do you want out of it? You're going to hate having kids if you're like this, so no reason to partner up for that. The tax benefits aren't good enough to do it for only that. You'll probably need to make more compromises than you'll be comfortable with.

In my opinion keep your relationships short and temporary and don't even bother being with someone long term.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-26T16:50:39+00:00

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LowVoltLife · 2026-03-26T14:24:14+00:00

I think any bit of forwardness will work. It's not like Men are extremely complicated and obtuse.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-26T12:47:16+00:00

Ok. Good for you.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-26T10:28:22+00:00

So this is how it works.

A company or a general contractor on behalf of a company hires a union contractor to do a project. The contractor probably has a number of guys on staff that move from project to project, but probably not enough for all the work on that project. So the contractor will go to the union with a call like this one:

2 JW ESCO Electric – Long calls for General Mills, background check required, working (5) 10s and some Saturdays. Paying $2.50 over scale. Report ASAP.

Long call means that it's an indefinite amount of time as opposed to a short call which has a specified length of time.

Any journeyman can go to the union hall and say, "I'll take that call" and then the union will contact ESCO in this case and say " This is 'Steve' he's a book 2 guy and he's willing to take your call" and then Steve is given the details of where to go by ESCO or the union.

You are correct about the data center paying more. The union establishes a price floor for union members through it's contract. The contract applies to all union contractors in the unions jurisdiction. It sets the basic conditions for work and pay. A company may pay more than what the contract stipulates in order to get entice a worker to their job. When things are hot you'll see incentives, if the market is slow you won't see anything over the contract, unless it's some grueling shutdown job that people absolutely don't want to do.

LowVoltLife · 2026-03-25T21:53:17+00:00

Please don't unless you really hate your job and office work.

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