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Nah fam you good. A lot of people here are crabs in a bucket because they don’t have the disposition to succeed in the workplace and have been disenfranchised by bad luck, poor decisions, or starting out from a bad home situation.
And that’s okay, it’s not like that can be controlled. We should build a society where that doesn’t stop someone from living a respectable life.
But that doesn’t mean some of us didn’t work our fucking assess off starting from dirt poor for our salaries against a strong headwind the entire time. People here act like anyone making more than $0 an hour just simply lucked into it and was born with a golden spoon.
There are plenty of professionals kicking around here, we just tend to not butt in.
I hear ya. Last week I did back-to-back 12 hour days that turned into 14 or 15s to meet a planned outage for a steel mill. It's basically the only time they allocate to changing equipment since they run 24/7. This was also as water was coming thru the walls due to extremely bad thunderstorms and the sump pump failed resulting in 3 ft of water in the basement next to the main electrical feed for the building lol. Then after doing that I tore out my whole subfloor and replaced it over the weekend, got drunk, burned it all, woke up and did it all over again.
I don't see me continuing this forever. It's just not sustainable. But I do take some pride in this lifestyle especially as it makes things materially better for my partner and I. I'd do anything for him, he's the love of my life and we've been together thru thick and thin for 12 years at this point.