#The Trades

[cowboyjen68]

Hey! I live in a kinda conservative place, and am planning on going into construction as a queer woman. How do you get over the fear of like, being out and open?

It is hard to predict how each set of co workers are going to act about having a woman in their midst.

When I have had to work among men who are clearly uncomfortable I get them to talk about themselves. Families, hobbies and what they know about the job. People in general like to share their knowledge. Most guys on a job will gladly show you what they know if you ask and are willing to listen. I have learned a great deal from the oldest men on a work crew.

The majority of people, including construction workers, just want to do their jobs and go home. There are always some who want drama and to stir up shit-assholes are everywhere. If you say good morning, show up on time and do your job and are reliable most coworkers will not really care about your sexuality. If they were apprentices or have been in the trades for any decent amount of time they have almost certainly worked with butches or non conforming straight women.

Being confident and comfortable in who you are leaving you much less vulnerable to judgement. No point in teasing someone who is find with who they are.

Look into apprentices or union entry level jobs that are led by women. Unions have long been on the forefront of trying to get more women involved in the trades. They are often very Democratic organizations because that is the party they recognized as most likely to support unions and their workers.

You will be just fine and if you make yourself a valuable asset to the team by learning and listening you might find you are well respected.

[booasaur]

The Trades - 1x05

[sojournertales]

“For decades, sci-fi authors and self-described "futurists" predicted that automation would put tradesmen out of work. After all, couldn't a machine easily do the job of someone without a college degree? (smug smug, smarm smarm)

Welllllp...it turns out that making robots capable of performing menial tasks in anything but a controlled environment is a huge engineering challenge. Every little thing that even an untrained, uneducated person can do has to be taught to the machine.

You want a robot that can clean hotel rooms and perform building maintenance? You have to give it the ability to detect everything in its environment, discern one object from another, and manipulate those objects on its own.

That's really, really hard. It's a lot of effort and technology to get a machine to do something a person can learn to do in a moments. Even when the tech hurdle is eventually overcome, other factors will still determine whether or not it's cost-effective or efficient.

Meanwhile, you know what machines excel at? Number-crunching, tracking metrics, and organizing data.

I predict that before truck drivers, welders, plumbers, and housekeepers have their livelihoods threatened, the machines will come for a big chunk of the corporate workforce. If you have a bullshit email job, you might end up getting automated into unemployment.

At the moment, the skilled trades (plumbers, electricians, construction, roofing, welding, etc.) are in no danger of being replaced by robots. They can't even be outsourced overseas because you have to be physically present to do those jobs. The coders will be replaced before the custodians are.

So, learn to custode, I guess.”

[alanfromrochester]

similarly traffic fines sometimes get criticized as just a revenue grab, police harassment, etc - when they do serve a purpose of deterring unsafe behavior on the road

I truly, TRULY do not know how to say this, because the fact that I have to say it makes me feel like I am losing my grip on reality. But no, in the post-capitalistic anarchist utopia, I will not be relying on “autistic minecraft girlies” to be building inspectors because - and this may shock you - one of those occupations takes years of education in how to read and interpret hundreds of thousands of lines of regulations based on complicated math and physics that were the result of decades of tragedy and death, and the other one involves playing a children’s video game.

[godwantsit]

[girl-poss]

i was laying in bed thinking about a classmates bumper sticker on his E-bike and i really think it goes hard but i needed it to be more clearly gay

[sl1mskull]

I participated to the Pokemon Card Illustration Contest.

I didn’t make it Top 300 but at least I had fun doing it

[awwxhf]

trade👍👍👍

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[evilou]

So I've been watching The Trades on Crave and it's pretty good!!

Aaand... Now I wanna write fanfic about two characters who had A Moment™ 👀

[publiccollectors]

A graphic from Mad magazine #182 from April 1976. The larger piece this comes from is "A Mad Portfolio of Some Idealists' Dreams" by Arnoldo Franchioni.

I have been starting to visit and revisit Mad following the discovery of a huge box of old issues in the storage unit of my wife's late uncle. Some of this stuff has aged in rather interesting ways.

[prokopetz]

A thing that bothers me about wizard schools in popular media – outside of the magic-grade-school stuff, anyway – is that they're typically depicted as being basically magic universities, but their actual curricula and pedagogical approaches look much more like those of a technical institution. Like, buddy, that's not a wizard university, that's a wizard trade school. You can't just slap university student culture on top of trade school pedagogy. It doesn't work like that – the one emerges from the other!

[zonetrente-trois]

Born 8 September 1972 in Toronto - Anastasia Phillips

[cidnangarlond]