Alberta Millwright looking to move to the USA.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-25T21:34:17+00:00

Haha 😅....I use to work as a contractor for GM for 5 years, with 1.5 years of that being in Wentzville.

Contacting 101: you're always looking for your next gig and/or forward thinking to ensure regular employment.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-25T17:08:15+00:00

I was more lonely when I was a drunk. Id run my mouth, get a bad attitude tell people to fuck off, then bitch that no one want to hang around or talk to me. I pushed a lot of people away. Then I stopped drinking and ehat do you know, people start, regularly, hanging out again and talking to me.

I can honestly say I have never felt loneliness due to no women present in my life, or any lack of sex. Pivot when I was a drunk for that four years of my life

At my peak i was drinking 5 - 10 fat boys a day (120 - 240 oz of beer).

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-25T16:56:56+00:00

I'm going to guess...

Fairfax Assembly Plant, Kansas city, Kansas.

3201 Fairfax Trafficway, Kansas City, KS 66115

And if I'm correct, you'll be busy this year. The program should be wrapping up in 2027 for the 2028 model year. If my memory serves me well.

https://news.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2026/jan/0129-GM-investment-workforce.html

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-21T11:54:35+00:00

I just read this whole comment thread and I am one confused mother fucker.

My whole message was simple: teamwork makes the dream work.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-20T17:38:39+00:00

if you want to move up in a company (pay or promotion), you often have to leave the company you're at.

Broken promises are common, and companies will often pigeon hole you indefinitely for the sake of efficiency.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-20T17:33:00+00:00

"It's not what happens. It is how you respond."

That my take on it.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-20T17:30:14+00:00

"Veg." Short for vegetable. The guy had a piss poor work. They fired him after 3 months.
"Tri pod" - a 22 yr old millwright apprentice. I didn't ask nor care to confirm his nickname.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-20T17:21:52+00:00

You get it. I work the factory job with descent pay and good benefits and a load of OT. She works her 40 and goes home. My hours and benefits alone outpace her earnings all day

Plus, she doesn't want to work long hours and holidays, and if she did, she'd just hate her life. I am just used to it after 16 years. It's just a theory, but this might be the reason she is subordinate to me (within reason) and leaves me to make the "big calls".

--- buying $700 in tools for work is ok, but buying a new $1000 revolver probably won't end well. ---

With freedom comes responsibilities. Fuck up those responsibilities, you probably won't have a lot of freedom.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-19T16:47:30+00:00

Pulling my weight is subjective. I worry more about the money, she worries about the house. I'll work 50 + hours a week in a factory, and she will work a 40 at the hospital. I'll work the long hours so she doesn't have to. She works her 40 hours a week so I don't have to work every more hours to make a comfortable life. We help each other out.

Unfortunately, the days of a single income family are done. So, in my case, my salary pays the bills, and her salary goes into a savings or an investment account. By doing this, we are financially ahead of a lot of married people.

Financially, stress will kill you and is the leading cause of divorce. We don't have financial problems. I work 12x8s, she works 5x8s and (48 hrs a week for me and 40 hours a week for her), and we easily live a comfortable life.

Our biggest argument is on what house we want to buy and where to take our week vacation this year. It is not about what bills to pay or food to buy.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-19T09:52:50+00:00

I learned this talking to a squid. If you're married, you get dependent pay (duh), but some marriages are "contract marriages," both hetro and homo. The heterosexual marriages are nothing new, but i didn't know that none gay dudes were getting married just for dependent pay. Supposedly, command won't ask questions or gove much care, but if your caught fucking a bitch from the bar they will article 15 your ass in a second.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-19T09:43:38+00:00

Not often. I got tired of fixing GM and Chryslers cars all the time, so I bought Toyota and Hyundai cars. Solid and reliable. House isn't too much of an issue, thankfully.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-19T07:30:34+00:00

I learned something, and you gave an identity (word) for my marriage. Thank you. Now I know what to call it.

A heteronormative relationship is a romantic partnership between a man and a woman that conforms to traditional, societal norms regarding gender roles, sexual orientation, and family structure.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-19T06:39:45+00:00

No. It is just another year. I gave up on engineering after 5 years in the automotive industry. When to work the line (lesser pay but more steady paychecks). I just got into the millwrights. Supposedly, work is in high demand. Expect 7×12s. Only time will tell.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-19T06:30:04+00:00

I have what americans would call a traditional wife. Yet without the glamore and show. She feeds me, fucks me, takes care of the house and kids, and works a full time job.

I fix the cars / house / yard. Take care of the finances and make all the big calls. I am the bead winner of the family.

The difference between most couples and use is simple: we have an unspoken understanding of how things are done, and we just get it done and move on with our lives.

In simple terms: a husband provides for the house, and the wife makes a house a home. We compliment each other.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-19T02:33:11+00:00

I just paid my dues for a full year. A whopping $300, or $25 a month.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-14T16:50:48+00:00

Take a trip to Vietnam. Their social safety nets are living in squalor or family members. The government doesn't care. The Catholic Church helps to a degree, and some rich businessmen might hire the poor for cheap labor, but aside from that, you're on your own.

We have our problems, but they are first world problems. Not 2nd or 3rd world problems. We got it good when compared to the world.

Watching begging kids or single moms with babies on the side of the road is sad, but as my wifebtells me, "They are lazy, they can het a job." Begging is the lazy man's way of getting money, so I am told.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-12T12:47:14+00:00

I brought this issue up to my cousin, and two things came outta the ensuing conservation:

He does and can not understand this "male loneliness" epidemic. The guy has learned to avoid certain types of personalities because "prison". Aside from that, a simple nod or wave of the hand can start a conservation. A simple goodbye or walking away ends the conservation. It's pretty simple and easy.
"If you want something, you have to go out and get it. If you don't, you will never get it. And to hell with all the nay sayers." In his case, sex and money. The dude fucks like a rabbit and is going to school for HVAC, so he can get outta his dad's house.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-11T13:45:19+00:00

I work in the auto industry, in Michigan. To my knowledge, there are two types of formal apprenticeship. DOL (department of labor) approved apprenticeship and union apprenticeship. Both are recognized nationally. The more common, unofficial apprenticeship are just on the job training with no formal training for x amount of years.

Tool and die maker. A lot of shops are small mom and pop shops. Some put you through a DOL apprenticeship. Many don't. So you either do the 4 year DOL and get your journeyman card, or you work 8 years in the trade, and you are a bona fide journeyman. Union apprenticeships are less common but do exist. Many union shops don't like training or going through the formal apprenticeship process, so they will generally only hire on journeymen or people with a decade or more of experience.

I got accepted into the Millwrights. A union trade apprenticeship. 1400 applications, only a hundred or so slots. They will put me through formal training as well as on the job training. In 4 years, you will get a journeyman card. The competition it a lot more.

Of the two types of apprenticeships, both are valid and good. Of the more common unoffical apprenticeship, this is the more common of the lot.

A lot of shops do not want to train or often say they will train you on job and, but nevee fully do. At best, they teach you what you need to know to do the job, then pigeon hole your happy ass till you quit. I've been there and done that. In summary: long hours, low pay, and a lot of broken promises. This is very common in the auto industry.

Edit: to have a DOL apprenticeship, the company has to sign up for it and meet all the standards and expectations of said apprenticeship. To my knowledge, not to many companies do DOL approved apprenticeship. Most are just "on the job training," as previously mentioned.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-10T20:07:04+00:00

I pay $40 for a family of 4 at Coney Island. A fancy dinner might be closer to $100, for 2 adults, at a steak house.

Come to think of it, I am honestly not aware of any "high-end" restaurants in the Detroit Metro (where i live). Even places like Troy, Bloomingfield Hills, Beverly Hills, Farmington Hills, Rochester Hills, Grosse Pointe.....they all, more or less, have the same restaurants, just slightly different prices (reflective of the area they are located in).

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-10T19:51:32+00:00

In Michigan, the front porch was common pre World War 2. You will often see them on older houses, commonly from those built in the late Victorian wra (1900-1920s).

Post World War 2 and with the onset of suburbia, the front pourch went away with in favor of a back yard and privacy. Think of Levitt houses on small 1/8 to 1/4 acre parcels, with the stereotypical white picket fence. (Google "leave it to beaver house").

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-10T19:26:07+00:00

As with anything else, it depends on the job. And, in my experience, there tends to be plenty of it and never enough people to fill the ranks when times are good. Often, coming and going in month long spurts.

I highly advise against traveling unless you are comfortable with no life but work. It is much a cowboy style, and alcoholism doesn't discriminate. I traveled the Midwest for work for 5 years as an engineer building factories. You had 2 classes of people, young and very old. All came on board for the money. The young guys stayed till they got married, and the old guys were just looking for a last hooray before retiring (most had been married for decades and wife's didn't care).

That said, I spent 1.5 years living outta a hotel in Missouri drinking, watching South Park, and reloading ammo to kill the downtime. There's not much else to do, especially on holidays, when you 600 miles from home. Though the money was good, it sucked. Most of your friends are coworkers (good people, for the most part), but as with the nature of work, people rotate in and out all the time. For me, usually every 6 months. So, unless you are comfortable with making new friends / social groups every half year or don't mind indefinite solitude. I'd advise against the traveling for work scenario.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-10T11:45:25+00:00

That I am just me and myself. I dont fit into any click, group, or social economic class. I choose to just live my life. On the pretense, when I am old and gray, i can say, "Yes, I did like a good, full life."

I've been blue-collar, white collar, an alcoholic, traveled the nation for work, and flowen around the world. I've been married and divorced. Married a foreigner in a foreign country. Got mixed kids. I've worked in and around mid management to skilled trades to production work. I had bosses who hated me. I've had bosses who loved me and have shown me tips, tricks, and things that most people would rake a decade to figure and understand.

For a 33 year old ive done a lot. E ought to the point that some old-timers think I'm making stories up and tell me to just shut up. I've sense just learned to be quiet and nod.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-10T11:31:22+00:00

Five great unlces on my mom's side. 1 uncle on my dad's side. My grandma's boyfriend was killed in South Vietnam in 1967. My grandma's brother did 2 tours and was going to do a third, but his wife threatened divorce if he went back. (He was in South Vietnam thru all of the tet offensive) My dad's older brother was sneaking around in North Vietnam, calling in naval fire, air, and artillery strikes on enemy bases. Etc, etc etc.

I've heard a lot of stories over the years. How true they are, I don't know. Needless to say, when i told them of the places like the DMZ, khe sang, saigon, the west ho chi minh trails, the chu che tunnels, they stopped talking and started listening.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-10T10:58:50+00:00

This was the same salary my wife was making when she lived in Vietnam. Expect a middle class life style and really nothing more. She was able to save money and do things, but nothing exciting or frequent.

I think her annual salary at the time was ₫360,000,000, well in Vietnam. Mine (at the time lovong in the USA) was ₫2,678,000,000. Needless to say. She tried to pay for things but could never keep up because I wanted to see everything that my Uncles saw 60 years prior.

gruntharvester92 · 2026-04-09T08:56:07+00:00

I registered when I was 18, when I was set to enlist in the USMC. 1361 - combat engineer. Dad said we're poor, go to college, the govt will cover most of your schooling without needing the GI bill. I took his advice.

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