About a decade ago My Sister and I more or less had an epic heated agreement about happiness and it's proximity to either of us. She was largely enjoying The Human Experience and I kept drowning in puddles of Anxiety and Depression. We absolutely just accepted the other's reality as totally valid and never tried to drag each other to our levels. Because we both knew that obviously wasn't going to help either of us. In all the years I was struggling, My Sister never once thought she (or her family) shouldn't celebrate opportunities just because I couldn't. (She was always good about checking in before she sent a million pics, just in case. I was also always invited to events but we had a mutual understanding that sometimes I Just Couldn't.) Multiple Therapists have called this High Emotional Intelligence for both of us. *shrug* Okay. At the time, I didn't really have the ability to be happy. Luckily, I had unconditional support thrown at me from multiple angles hard enough it hurt. I got a diagnosis. I got medicated. And now I'm repeatedly telling My Bosses I'm fine when clients spew all over me. (I don't take that shit personal. It's annoying when I'm trying to get shit done, but not very hurtful. It actually becomes funny to me within a few hours.) They've both stated that a singular instance of Disrespecting Me is grounds for intimidate termination of contract.) So please remember that when I whine about my bosses, it's because I know I can. And that it's probably the worst emotional abuse that's going to happen to me this year. (Oh No! My Very Over Stressed Friend told me to Fuck Off! However shall I survive? </sarcasm>)
Just in case it wasn't obvious, I'm ever so willing to throw emotional support scaffolding at your head when needed. Y'all are amazing for me and I'll always be there there for you. I'm just an DM or email or comment away.
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Welding is so sick, can i ask how you got trained and how long it took?
I’m actually still in training!
So the thing is that after three years of making very little progress getting a degree I wasn’t sure I wanted I said fuck it and dropped out of university and used the last of my education savings to apply to a program at a nearby college. It turns out if you want to learn a trade you can just do that.
Admittedly I don’t have like a broad base of knowledge to help advise you from because I did this on a whim and also I am in Canada so things might work different where you are, but the program I’m in is seven months, covers the basics of oxyfuel, stick, wire feed and even a week of tig welding as well as a variety of other occupational skills, and ends with an exam that earns you your logbook, which follows you throughout your apprenticeship and your career as a welder. It basically sets you up to be in a position to get an apprenticeship and there are B and A level courses that provide further training and certification once you have enough workplace hours.
But what I cannot stress enough is that I did just very much look up trades programs in my area and apply to an entry level course with zero knowledge or experience with welding and now I can do basic stick welding in all four positions so like. Look into trade schools nearby and you might just find an entirely new life path you can take you never know.
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Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.
Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.
He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.
Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.
But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.
Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.
Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.
So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?
Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.
Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.
Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.
Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.
Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.
Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.
But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?
Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.
Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.
So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.
Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.
At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.
The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.
Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.
All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.
Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.
But by GOD is he trying.
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