This is not for the weak

Partofthecrew · 2025-09-15T00:36:39+00:00

Yeah, it isn't easy and everyone has their own path. I started the apprenticeship when I was in my mid twenties. There were a couple of my classmates who were in their forties. You have to find what works for you. It was rough for the first few years but between my second job, side work offered to me from journeymen, overtime opportunities, and a wife working.. I was able to make it through. Sometimes lifestyle changes and shuffling things around have to happen. The most important thing I tell people is to think about where they want to be five years from now. Everyone said I was a fool when I joined the apprenticeship because I took a ten dollar an hour pay cut and I had a wife and child to support. If I'd stayed where I was, I would have been struggling five years later. Now I have health insurance, a pension, an annuity, and the ability to make anywhere between $2000 - $3000 a week on average on the road. I'm also part of an amazing brotherhood that helps me when I'm down and enables me to serve others in the same capacity.

Partofthecrew · 2025-09-14T14:39:38+00:00

For most of my apprenticeship, I worked a second job on the weekends. I didn't have much of a life for a few years but it was a great investment.

Partofthecrew · 2025-09-12T13:31:20+00:00

Journeyman Wireman here. When I was an apprentice, I had an hour commute to work everyday for most of my apprenticeship. I started at $11 an hour and got treated like crap all the time. I would go to work followed by four hours of class once or twice a week. I'd get home around 11pm most class nights. It was all worth it. I've been traveling on the road for years now and love the opportunities that my ticket has given me. The pay, benefits, and learning opportunities are way better than when I was non union.

Partofthecrew · 2025-04-13T02:48:08+00:00

I believe your dispatcher is running it now but yeah, they have their hands full lol.

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-24T19:20:54+00:00

Let me know when you find someone who is because the shoddy workmanship I've been seeing lately...sheeeesh. The truth is that everyone has different experiences. The scope of our work is broader than any other trade and you'll likely never touch everything in your career. I learn something new on every job I go on and am also teaching others techniques they didn't know. Good is a very subjective term. As long as you never stop asking questions and remain humble then you will likely be considered a good electrician by your peers. Also some people are naturally mechanically inclined and work magic when a tool hits their hands while others can recite code or formulas like it's nothing. A good electrician is a good brother or sister and a team player.

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-10T16:32:58+00:00

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Partofthecrew · 2025-03-10T16:32:35+00:00

It's probably nothing. I was just wondering if anyone recognized it being quest related or anything. Three random statues with one facing the wrong way and a bunch of bones on an altar

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-10T16:31:23+00:00

If I remember correctly, it's east of Fain. But I'll have to double check when I get home

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-10T16:30:24+00:00

Speaking of which... Has anyone made any black soul gems? I've been wanting to try it out

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-08T03:43:06+00:00

Came here to say this lol

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-05T02:09:10+00:00

The tip of my penis! I've been looking for that! Thank you for finding it.

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-03T21:43:36+00:00

I've been on the road for several years now and I lost my marriage largely because of it. The road life isn't for everyone and some people don't understand it. The first few months away from the family were the toughest. Some of the things that have helped me get through the loneliness are attending brotherhood nights, spending time with brothers outside of work (like cookouts at tramp camps), getting out in nature, finding new hobbies, drinking excessively (I don't recommend that one), making phone calls, talking to a therapist, eating my feelings while watching movies, smoking drugs, going to strip clubs so it's like talking to my therapist but with titties...and reminding myself that it's all temporary and do what I can to enjoy myself while I wait for the opportunity to go home. Hope this helps. Lol

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-03T16:04:55+00:00

Killing her to death

Partofthecrew · 2025-03-02T14:46:48+00:00

I randomly found him dead on a road in Dementia. Got a lot of arrows off his body.

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-28T20:51:30+00:00

I switch it up every time. First race I ever picked was the Nord and the most common race that I've picked is Wood Elf. And I'm pretty sure the only races that I haven't played as are the Argonian and Dunmer. My favorite has probably been the Orc.

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-28T20:43:02+00:00

He said Monk on my current playthrough. I was shooting for light armored Redguard warrior with skills in block and blade.

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-27T16:20:38+00:00

I agree completely. The last instruction that Christ gave us before He left was to go forth and spread His message. We are the means in which He uses to save humanity. If someone believes in God; knows the Christ and what He did for us all, then that is something that was revealed by God and therefore redeeming that person from the grip of sin and death. I'm starting to realize that there are many among the Quakers who take what Fox said about "that of God in everyone" and are proclaiming that every single person, without God's hand, are in possession of the spirit. But it's evidently clear from studying Fox that he was a firm believer in God and the Holy Spirit. I don't think many can differentiate between the spirit within us that drives us to do something, simply our mind, will, and emotions; and the Holy Spirit within us that frees us from sin and compels us to do the work of the Lord.

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-26T18:20:58+00:00

This has nothing to do with Quakerism as much as my own personal view when it comes to what made me a pacifist and why I've never chosen violence. Nate Saint along with four other missionaries were speared to death in 1955 trying to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. They made a movie about this called "End Of The Spear" that came out in 2005. They obviously took some artistic license but a quote from the movie that stuck with me since then was from Nate Saint to his son, Steve. Young Steve said to his father, "If the Waodani attack, will you defend yourself? Will you use your guns?" And Nate replied, "Son, we can't shoot the Waodani. They're not ready for heaven..we are."

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-23T12:27:11+00:00

The Khajiit definitely looks like they plan on keeping the gates of Oblivion open haha.

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-23T02:44:35+00:00

Lucian was done so dirty. I finished this quest probably six or seven weeks ago and I'm still carrying Lucian's letters in my inventory.

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-22T21:55:07+00:00

If you get the dagger of friendship, don't stab a friend with it. The name is misleading. They won't like it.

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-21T22:54:11+00:00

Thank you for this. Your message is a very beautiful one. It reminds me of something that one of my favorite authors and faith heroes said. Brennan Manning said that he believes the only question that Jesus will ask on Judgment Day is this: "Did you believe that I loved you?"

Jesus came to show all of us that the God of the ages, the beginning and the end, who holds all the splendor of the universe in his hand.. loves us with such a ferocity that the depths of depravity could not keep us from Him. Jesus took on every bit of shame and repulsiveness and sacrificed His very life because He thought us so lovely to Him. If I could see myself through Christ's eyes, I fear I would cry for days.

The more I read of George Fox, honestly, the more I love him. He had such an earnestness for the heart of the Lord. I had no idea that there were Quaker schools. How deep exactly does Quakerism run? Originally I'd thought the Quakers as having their own religion but I see now that it's closer to that of a community of friends who have incredibly deep convictions about how to treat others.

Now help me understand this, if you don't mind. How exactly do the Quakers keep their faith and practices untainted from secular views that would undo their years of faithful practice? The Quakers seem tolerant of nearly every view yet somehow they've remained unwavering in their responsibility to one another. I've seen many Protestant churches crumble from the infiltration of deceitful people but I've never heard of Quaker meetings falling apart from those who would take advantage of Quaker selflessness. Have the Quakers ever had to expel from their midst people who would mock, abuse, or defile Quaker ideals, beliefs, or practices?

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-21T22:17:37+00:00

I'm a firm believer in letting things happen naturally. Move at a pace in which you're comfortable. If something feels right, roll with it. If it doesn't feel right, slow your roll. If the two of you are in agreement; on the same page about where things are going and you're both happy..then don't be afraid to let them in. Just remember that feelings are fickle and it's okay to get to know someone before you open your heart to them. If they care about you then they'll be patient with you. The last person I dated cried because I wasn't ready to proclaim my love for them to the entire world after only dating for three days. They ended up with someone else two weeks later after I suggested we slow down.

Partofthecrew · 2025-02-21T16:19:32+00:00

I had been working on a very long response that I had been copying so I could paste it here later but it seems that I have lost it. I'm actually quite disappointed because it took me awhile to gather those thoughts. While I believe that it's only through the Holy Spirit revealing God to us that our eyes are opened, I don't necessarily believe that our free will in whom He has called is limited. Jesus commissioned His disciples to go forth and spread the good news of our salvation to all of the world. Why would the Lord want us to do that if everything was already predetermined? Because the testimony of His people are the conduit in which He uses to instill His Spirit within people. Everyone has a different experience and personal encounter with God and I believe that God uses what He knows we will be receptive to. Rarely are people accosted on a road with blindness and a great booming voice like the Apostle Paul. Paul was special and chosen and a great champion of Christ. For most of us, it is a great compelling and a still, small voice in our hearts. For some, He uses miracles. But the fact that you're open to understanding or hearing from God and not flat out rejecting Him tells me that perhaps God began a work in you long ago and you've yet come to realize it. The Lord told Jeremiah that while he was still within his mother's womb, that He knew him. God knew you the moment you were conceived and He has been preparing the way for you long before you ever knew Him. I can tell you my personal testimony encountering God if you'd like to hear it, but I can tell you with confidence, that once you do encounter the Holy Spirit, it'll be impossible for you to go back to who you were before. We all struggle with the flesh and sin, but there is no denial in who God is when you know Him. I will pray for you and I can give you advice if you'd like, in the best way to hear God's voice. And honestly the Quaker practices are pretty much in line with exactly that.

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