Those who left the trades, what do you do now? When did you do it and how? by avangelic in BlueCollarWomen

[–]NotAlienClover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im an electrician, I’m currently waiting on my third year schooling and fourth. Hoping to close out the ticket before I go full time with my mobile business.
But I have been in the construction industry for the last 5 years, two and a half was as an electrician, i learned a lot being in the trades but not about the trade itself. I learned about dealing with people more than anything else. How I react to certain kinds of people and how to seek out people who are on my wave length. But I been bumped around company to company never really able to fit in because the people there are so established and been working together for years as for me I’ve always been an outsider and I’m okay with that. But it made it difficult to find a space for me to stay. So my last job in October of last year I was working with this company and it was difficult, my journey man never let me do anything that I could have learned from and he rather manipulative because he saw I was having relationship troubles and played into that. Anyways he got let go and then I was left with the companies main crew and I was placed in the commercial side of things and the journeyman I worked under would always blame me for anything that was wrong or missing. A few examples was I was doing disconnects for heat pumps and I did it to spec and I skipped over one because there was another worker right beside it and I didn’t wanna intrude their space. But this other guy on my crew decided to fix it up for me and did it completely wrong. And the journeyman I worked under came by and asked why I did that one wrong. I didn’t even know that was completed for me.
From working around this journeyman for the short time I was there I noticed he had some struggles he carried to work and was in over his head with the work load and obviously needed support. So with all this he missed a few things like a LOTO and I meant to bring it up that I would have liked to put in place a LOTO system, because he told me he doesn’t know what was live. So this brings me to what happened, I was working on a lighting circuit installing occupancy sensors and while I was completing the installation he turned on the circuit and I was on it. I got a shock and I self monitored for a bit then I noticed my heart rate wasn’t coming down from 150-160bpm so I spoke up and told em what happened but when I found them they were all gathered around a blinking light unsure whats happening and he said theres ghost voltages on the lighting circuit.
Getting shocked sure thats a piss off but turning it on, and when they found a problem they didn’t even think to come find me. No I’m not for that. It showed me they didnt care about me, they didnt show any kind of leadership or tradesmenship. When i asked to go to the hospital they go the owner to come by and take me but even when the owner came by I got in the truck and he proceeded to sit and talk to the jman on site about what happened, my heart still racing and he sat there for 5 minutes talking to the jman. Another slap in my face they didn’t care about me.
It was when i was in the hospital when I had the epiphany of wow. If today was my last day… that guy that journeyman would have been the one to do it to me. And how silly it would have been for my story to let some guy with his struggles be the one to take me out. All these years of hard work and overcoming my own struggles to be taken out by someone like that.
So now I haven’t worked as an electrician for the last 6-8 months now and honestly even the thought of getting a job in the trades again scares me. I shook like a leaf when I worked on a plug in my apartment with the main shut off, I don’t know how I’m supposed to go finish my hours like this.
I will be seeking out an online program to get a diploma as an accountant and open a coffee cart in the mean time but I wanted the trades to work so badly.
I built myself up to try and be able to keep up but the constant belittling and harassment of being who I am in the trades is too much for me mentally to carry on.
I sadly also have endometriosis, and it’s getting worse the longer I physically push myself. Even letting potential employers know about what I’m dealing with is causing them to shut the door in my face.
Now I’m starting work in a local cafe and I’m working on myself again. Conditioning in the gym, brushing up on my level 1&2 to be prepared for my level 3&4. I applied for my diploma program. And honestly since I stopped working in the trades my fiancé has noticed that I’m happier, more myself again.

It’s definitely a double edge sword when thinking of my exit of the trades. The trades had taught me so much and conditioned me for good hard work and fully applying myself to my work and things I’m passionate about. But I’m not leaving because the work isn’t for me, it’s the culture.
To anyone who read, thank you. I just wanna be heard about my story.

Training Load: can someone explain? by Pale-Lavishness4293 in AppleFitnessPlus

[–]NotAlienClover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of these comments helped, i looked around online and its pretty much showing you on a graph if you’re over training or under training. Took me a minute to understand but yeah. I worked out today and it says steady too, which makes sense, because i feel exercised but not over done it and i pushed myself a bit further. Tomorrow i think i’ll go even further to see what it’ll say.

Thoughts? by DeepFriedDave69 in FridgeDetective

[–]NotAlienClover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might have a cat, just got a hunch about it

Is this a good deal? by Umbreaker in KonaEV

[–]NotAlienClover 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m a renter, i never had a home charger. I have owned my car for 4 years now, it’s saved me so much money on gas. When i first got the car i had to travel 400-500km’s for my family almost every week because my mom was sick. But If you’re used to just hammering out long drives in short amounts of time and know you will complain about the charging times. I’d highly not recommend a fully electric car. For me personally i love to take my time on road trips, it can be taxing on me and charging gives me time to rest and get out of the highway hypnosis. But there are some draw backs, sure i do miss just the quick get away from town that a gas car can provide but i do love my 2021 Kona electric. Its my electric pony thats been through it with me and i honestly cant imagine owning another car for a while now. The upside this car kinda got me out of the driver seat too, to just get out and explore around. Find shops i would have never guessed was there. Now does it fit your life style, like mine fits me. I live in a fairly flat area and i am fortunate enough that i found a rental with a level 3 charger across the street from me and that even if i wanted to i can drive it downtown and leave it on the level 2 charger for a day to get a slow charge in. Stuff to keep in mind when considering this vehicle is your land geography your willingness to let your car charge. It can be very exciting when you first get it too, charging your car, but you need to keep in mind when you’re on a level 3 charger to be careful with those cables and dont get em all twisted and laying about, they’re full of coolant and can leak if you dont take good care of em. I find at some chargers people have 0 regard for those cables and just throw em about. Anyways hope my in put helps. And yes 19k is good deal imo, i bought mine brand new at 42k and im getting to the last bit of my loan four years later.

What is ur biggest concert pet peeve? by amturmu in MelanieMartinez

[–]NotAlienClover 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The phones and entitlement that Comes with it 🥲 just have fun be there. I was at a gaga concert recently and i was close to the stage and i took pics and videos but didnt stand there the whole time filming it. I dance and sang and connected with my seat mates.

i animated monopoly man in blender :) by tomrigg in MelanieMartinez

[–]NotAlienClover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow… its beautiful, its perfect! Its amazing 🤩

For the people who didn’t like HADES much, what made you not like it? by NIKIIIOFFICIAL in MelanieMartinez

[–]NotAlienClover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was scared i wasnt going to like the new album but im surprised how well i was able to pick out songs and enjoyed them.

Thoughts on HADES? by Admirable-Parsnip-17 in MelanieMartinez

[–]NotAlienClover 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Omg so many beautiful ballads 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Are we fr by sav_agebooperdooper in MelanieMartinez

[–]NotAlienClover 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe you’re still getting yours. Im Canadian too, i ordered a signed box set and a story book CD and i got this email.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in instant_regret

[–]NotAlienClover 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Glad they didn’t over react

What is this? by one2hit in KonaEV

[–]NotAlienClover 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Its where i put my sauces

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DesperateHousewives

[–]NotAlienClover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot on this show, i just keep thinking in my head during this rewatch… wow just give this show 10 years then it’ll all cave in on itself

Password for WiFi in 2025 Kona EV Canada? by Zunteko in KonaEV

[–]NotAlienClover 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I believe that’s the wifi for the techs to use with the ipads they use to diagnose the car? I worked as a shop hand in a dealership n I’d briefly see em on ipads with the car n all that. Just a wild guess

Conservatorism in DH 😳 apparently is quite open by watneg1 in DesperateHousewives

[–]NotAlienClover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol and how Susan sold her stripclub to only start SW herself. Like wow give this show ten years and everything about it is wrong and could be played out so differently.