Honestly same. Anywhere I go I’m just a threat regardless of what I do.

But the same thing can happen with vasectomies so why isn’t it showing anything there?

As a man I can assure you that this pill wouldn’t be feasable for me to take and I’m better off without it.

~Because I’m snipped~

What, you don’t want your keys to crunch when you press them?

This post was clearly made by a mosquito.

Any machine can be a mind altering machine if you smash your head into it hard enough.

Insulation fucking sucks. If your do a lot of work with it though then it’s worth it to just fork over the dough for a proper full face respirator. That makes things so much more comfortable. Even with full gear though you’ll still wind up itching somewhere.

As far as the trades go though, honestly switching to a blue collar job is the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done. I went from IT to being a refrigeration mechanic and I love it. I might not be saving lives all that often but it is nice to be able to know that I am helping real people. Like a call I had recently getting a fridge fixed in time for a small town bar to still have cold beer for St. Pattys day. I spent hours laying on a filthy bar floor with an acetylene torch swapping out a compressor old enough to have seen the collapse of the soviet union. But when I got that thing going again the cheer from the farmers sitting at the bar made my day. Sure I didn’t change any lives, but I left knowing I made people happy.

Of course the bigger emergency jobs can be very high stress. If I get an emergency 1AM callout with a down grocery store rack system and a million dollars of produce spoiling, then I’m definitely sweating a bit. But even then, it’s a good stress. It’s a stress that pushes me into action and my brain into gear. There’s no dread in it. There’s only the knowledge that people are relying on me to solve the problem and there is no one else comming to the rescue. It’s a chance to prove that you can fix anything no matter how creative you need to get with that fix.

The job is often backbreaking. The job is often filthy. The job is often even dangerous. Most days I come home covered in various substances with new scratches, bruises, and/or burns in various locations only to sit down and just ache for a while. But most days I also go to bed happy and content.

A company I used to work for used paycom(dot)com for their HR software. So we would frequently get notifications from there for work stuff. One day I got an external work email telling me to click a link to a paycom(dot)net site to sign up for a raffle to win a free ipad. I thought that looked sketchy as fuck so I did a quick whois on the .net and .com sites. They were completely different and the .net site was basically entirely anonymised. So obviously at that point I was like “damn this phisher managed to get the .net domain for paycom. That’s kind of impressive. I should let our IS guy know so he knows we’re being targeted.” So I shot off an email to our basically only IS guy and he responded by telling me that the email was legit and everyone in the company got it because the company was giving away an extra ipad they had. But he also said now that I pointed it out it was the sketchiest looking email he had seen in a while.

I honestly should have known better considering this is the same company where at one point a different IS person had sent me an email basically just saying “Your computer has a virus. Open this attachment to remove it.” Turns out that was also legit and the guy who used my desk on first shift managed to get a virus somewhere but rather than comming down to fix it themselves IS just sent me an email with a script to run.

The pay does do it for some jobs. I was up on a rooftop in -10F wind at 1AM for several hours a month ago fixing a furnace. But I was being paid $50 per hour (in a very low COL area) to do it so I was happy to do it and would be hapy to do it again. I regualrly have to crawl around in the nastiest places in places like meat cutting plants, work in -20F freezers, or on rooftops in scorching heat, but I get paid well to do it and my employer treats me well so I can say I actually love my job. People will not only put up with some miserable conditions if you pay them enough and treat them well but they will often even enjoy it.

The problem is farm work is miserable while still paying like shit and, to top it all off, usually the ones in charge are entitled assholes like the one in the article.

That ass in the dictionary. It’s got definition.

Biblically accurate infant.

Your mama didn’t give you rights?

Eh, I just use neutrals on everyone. I have a hard enough time remembering names and nobody should be offended by they/them.

Fine. Everyone around the world sets their clock to noon when it’s noon on the summer solstice in Greenwich. No more time zones. Just change the times you do things depending on your area.

If it’s that important to certain people then those workplaces can just have different seasonal hours. Why fuck with timekeeping because of a few peoples personal preference?

I could only bill for the time I was there and the pay per mile was abysmal.

This is one of the best changes going from IT to the trades. My billable hours now start the moment I get in my work van at home and end the moment I get out of my van at home. Our time is billed the same regardless of if it’s drive time or time on site. If a customer hundreds of miles away wants me on their site at 1AM to fix their screwup then I am more than happy spending hours just driving, listening to podcasts, and making double time after hours pay the whole way.

I recently had a job where I had to drive 3 hours to a customer site and the only work I wound up having to do there was make a phonecall to their building automation person which the customer could have done on their own.

Customers who can’t follow basic instructions went from being the bane of my existance to being the most lucrative and relaxing part of my job.

Land of the Free™~(Terms and conditions apply.)~

Walz won’t even be at retirement age by 2028. That’s practically an infant in terms of a presidential candidate.

We may not last 4 years. It’s only been 2 months.

Yes? If I could get everything in one place then I would happily pay for that. I don’t pirate to save money. Saving money is just a nice sideeffect. I pirate because it’s literally more convenient than juggling 15 different services.