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1849635 No.1849635 [Reply] [Original]

Do you guys tell your sons about the houses you've worked on?

>> No.1849638

My dad used to tell me about doing drugs and living in the houses he was working on while they were under construction. He died ripping copper out of a live power transformer station, btw.

>> No.1849641

my dad was in the airforce, he tells me about houses he blew up.

>> No.1849642

>>1849635
I probably will, lol. My Dad always does when we drive through the towns he built houses in.

>> No.1849645

>>1849635
I personally ask him. It's nice to know that part of cities were planned by him.

>> No.1849676

>>1849635
My father was a G.P. when I was growing up.. Couldn't go anywhere without somebody going, "Hey, Doc!" Any place somebody knew that fucker.

>> No.1849682

My dad was a transgendered sex offender.

>> No.1849687

>>1849676
Same except my dad sold coke

>> No.1849693

My dad worked for GM for like 30 years and was involved in designing various things on a number of cars. He would point out cars he had worked on and say something like “Don’t buy that piece of shit. I know the guy who designed this or that and he’s a fucking retard.” He complained a lot about having to work within really shitty constraints and management always meddling with shit they don’t understand. He only ever drove Japanese cars.

>> No.1849701

>>1849635
My dad used to talk about the steel buildings he worked on. He did that for 20+ years and is now on permanent disability.

>> No.1849705

>>1849682
huh, that;s crazy. as for my dad? he's a white racist who's literally scared 24/7

>> No.1849707

>>1849635
I do this to girlfriends. Should I stop?

>> No.1849824

Don't have any. Both my parents did that with me though. Mum tells me she designed that building and dad tells me he built it.

>> No.1849905

My dad does this too, but with bridges

>> No.1849940

>>1849707
based

>> No.1850021

>>1849635
Yes, I tell them all the time but there sick of it already

>> No.1850060

>>1849635
My dad does

>> No.1850070

>>1849693
sounds like a smart dude lol.

>> No.1850087

>>1849635
My dad was a welder, he apparently welded everything in the Denver metro area at one point or another.
>>1849638
>He died ripping copper out of a live power transformer station, btw.
Sorry for your loss, Jamal.

>> No.1850260

>>1849707
no. it's something to talk about. even if the woman doesn't understand who gives a fuck.

>> No.1850323
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>>1849635
My dad was a pipefitter (now a PM about to retire) and does this whenever we’re driving around Boston. The sense of pride of having wrought out of steel and iron a colossus of a skyscraper is something I think a lot of young men need and it would probably help the country overall if it was more common.

But yeah, let’s subsidize kids going $40,000+ into debt to get some worthless cubicle job, if that.

>> No.1850328

>>1849635
my dad did it to me and i do it to my gfs. it is strange driving around a city and knowing a lot of buildings intimately.

>> No.1850534

>>1850323
I’m a young retard sparky apprentice and I always hear supers and PMs on jobsites talking about how they came up like that. They cut their teeth in a trade and then somehow they finagled their way into an office job or a supervisory role. How do I do this, do I have to stop being retarded or do I have to suck the right dicks?

>> No.1850536

>>1850534
It's all about sucking the right dicks. Do favors for people and they'll remember it. Or be one of those guys that complain about everything and people will remember that even more.

>> No.1850570

>>1850534
Sucking the right dick, being a shop cat, running a few projects as a GF

>> No.1850586

My dad mostly rambles on about how I should be investing in renewable energy companies and technologies and how I should've gone into a STEM field to work in renewable energy.

He's a consultant for power utilities.

>> No.1850655

>>1850586
My mom will never forgive me for working construction. She is always upset over it. Her friends brag about how their children have degrees, and she feels inferior. She lectures about how I need to go back to school if I want to "become something" at least once a week. I've been thinking about it just to shut her up.

>> No.1850781

>>1850655
>tfw I can’t forgive myself for working in construction and being too old to get a degree+career that requires one

>> No.1850907

My father built half the swimming pools in this 100.000+ population city. Reinforced concrete. My sister and later me made the pixel-art style "mosaics" out of these 2.5cm (~1inch) glass tiles that are used to tile the inside of the pools. 90%+ were boring stuff, dolphins, compass rose, soccer team shields. But every now and then there would be a custom project. Like the tasmanian devil from the Looney Toons, or the Sol de Mayo. It was a challenge to cram these down to a 200x200 cm (6.5x6.5 feet) canvas (remember, each pixel was 2.5 cm, and there was 1mm grouting in between).

>> No.1850908

>>1850907
*And later I.

>> No.1850914

>>1850907
It takes his team about 3 weeks to build one regular sized pool (3x6 meters, 0.9 to 1.6 meters deep). He remembers every single owner, sometimes they moved and the new owners called him to perform maintenance (almost nobody that can afford a pool cares to overwinter it, many prefer to pay to have a rodent removed from the skimmer basket, upgrading to saline electrolytic chlorination+automated pH correction, etc) and those he remembers too. He gets all of his business by word of mouth and previous clients that moved. Once, just once, he gave out cards. He got calls from the outer side of the country. I don't even.

We don't have a swimming pool or even a garden.

>> No.1850943

>>1850534
PM can be one of the worst jobs in construction bar none. If shit goes south and a job goes tits-up, it’s all on you. However, if you develop relationships with 1 or 2 supers that are competent and only work with them it’s the easiest job in the world.

Also, a lot of kids get degrees in “construction management”, fuck that. I’d take any motivated journeyman over a degree no question, and the majority of companies would too. The question is do you really want to take on the responsibility. It is the first step in owning your own company, you just need to know whether the circumstances are right to roll the dice.

>> No.1851002

>>1849635
My dad would always talk about orchards or dairies he worked at. I do the same and talk about cattle or crops when ever I have the chance. On one hand it's shame I will never experience labor like he did, on the other hand, I don't want to end up like everyone else in my family that has ruined knees, sprain legs, decapitated fingers. I prefer my limp wristed office job while working on personal projects during the weekend.

>> No.1851263

>>1850655
Feel ya. My parents always thought I would do something arts-related. But being stuck in the bottom end of the middle class is not something I aspired.
So I became an Industrial mechanic and later studied mech.eng. because the company paid for it. Before university I Had to hear the same sermon. Luckily Uni was very hands-on. Worked 3 years as a Sales engineer but the company was doomed and I hated pushing pencils for 8h straight.

Rant-end/

Only do it, If you plan in using the degree.
Accept that Most other students are aliens compared to sb wo worked in the Trades.
A friend of mine is a Independent window Installer, makes ca 120k/ year and still has to bear the bullshit of :" The neighbours girl studied ..."
Yeah she studied politics. Congrats dir getting a bullshit-degree

>> No.1851306

My grandfather always points out walls he built and repairs he did some 50 or 60 years ago when he was a bricklayer. I love it.

>> No.1851311

>>1849693
thats every single profession. and every single design/product/model/concept/whatever. there is always someone who thinks it is a piece of shit. relatively speaking of course.

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>>1849635
>I paid Mexicans to work on that house
>I paid Mexicans to work on that house
>I paid Mexicans to work on that house
>I made $25k on that house without stepping foot into it
>Your mother and I are spending your inheritance btw

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1851379

>>1851370

>> No.1851381

>>1851370
Just mutt things i guess

>> No.1851403

>>1851379
Nothing he said is incorrect, and I say that as someone who works in commercial construction. The supers and PMs and foremen are all old white conservative boomers but they hire illegals to do the labor because they can pay them less and they’re more willing to do risky shit like standing on a pallet being raised by a telefork 35’ in the air without a harness

>> No.1851409

>>1849705
This isnt pol. You're not supposed to get paid to shill here samefag

>> No.1851429

>>1849635
Hell yeah. I'm a crane operator and I travel all over the US and I point out everything I've worked on over the years if we get close enough to point a project out

>> No.1851529
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1851529

My dad might tell me about the houses he built but I tell him about the commercial buildings I've built.

>> No.1851531

>>1851529
Based and racewaypilled

>> No.1851539

>>1849638
Bump

>> No.1851541

>>1849707
If she hates you for this, she isn´t the right one.

>> No.1851580

>>1851529
im gonna start taking some pics of the piping I do here in the next month or so after I get some gear going. Doing a 3000A server here in a week or 2 with some pipe coming out of it eventually. If the pipe looks like shit I wont bother though.

>> No.1852045

>>1850323
But if it wasn’t for all those worthless cubicle jobs your father wouldn’t have been outfitting skyscrapers to house them in.

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1852260

>so his Dad says, see that stonewall over there? I built that but do they call me Tom the Wall Builder?
>Dad points to a barn and says, I built that barn, but do they call me Tom the Barn Builder?
>Dad points to an apple orchard and says, I planted that apple orchard, but do they call me Tom the Orchard Planter?
>No, but you fuck one lousy goat

>> No.1853499

>>1849638
F.

>> No.1853500

>>1849635
I tell my girlfriend that every time we pass any house I remember working on, yes

>> No.1853506

>>1849635
When i built houses they all looked the same. I built 20 houses and couldnt spot a single fucking one of them now

>> No.1854212

>>1849638
>My dad used to tell me about doing drugs and living in the houses he was working on while they were under construction. He died ripping copper out of a live power transformer station, btw.

based dad RIP

>> No.1854218

>>1850534
>How do I do this, do I have to stop being retarded or do I have to suck the right dicks?

Become an estimator lol you don't even have to know much about the electrical trade you're in. Just be good at selling.

>> No.1854305

>>1853500
>>1849635
My grandpa mentions every house he ever worked on and any house he'd ever been in growing up.

I mention every house I'd made deliveries to (Lowes) and any house I had a sexual experience in to my wife. She doesn't appreciate that.

>> No.1854347

>>1849635
>implying I'd ever talk to my biracial bastard mutt children
lmao, nah, my kids still have it better than me since at least their mom's father is rich. They probably think I'm just some random dude who fucks their mom.

>> No.1855883

>>1849635
Whenever we go back to Beaver Dam in Kentucky my dad will talk about the layout of each house we pass because him and my grandpa built almost all of the houses there.

>> No.1855888

NO, cause i’m not a resi faggot

>> No.1856217

>>1850534
why the fuck would you want an office job? Yes, obviously, you need to be good at sucking dicks.