Oh, she never just threatened...if she was yelling and suddenly left the room, RUN!

I think that is also a problem in upbringing, while boys are being taught to not be violent, people don't really teach girls that to the same extend

You're spot on! I have a 23 year old daughter and 20 year old son from that practice marriage and they're unhinged largely due to their awesome-sauce totally sane mother

My 4 year old daughter from my second marriage is more well behaved

children imitate their parents actions more than their words, that is true too, if at least one of the parents shows shit behaviour in their actions children may well be impacted in their own behaviour

and then learn it the hard way trough the justice system (or not)

@rart If I may ask, how do you make a living beside your assets?

I'm a telecom specialist for A certain phone company

like a communication engineer?

Field Operations, telephone cable repair and splicing

or on what level

ah ok

like, you open boxes in the neighborhoods, install DSLAMs, connect that stuff, sometimes open the street to find a disconnected cable and fix it

that kind of stuff?

I'm only used to women asking me that...on the first date. Most of them used to find other points of interest after they realized I barely crack six figures (with overtime)

I work in a rural market that only has DSLAMS in the central office but the rest of it is pretty spot on. I do a LOT work in the rainbow spaghetti

ah ok

LOL...I just bought a replacement part from Kreg tools that cost 10 bucks but it was six bucks for shipping and another buck-sixteen for tax....psh

oof

I used to assemble large scale industrial machinery, lots of communication and power cables, cabling the control cabinets, and the field devices, also debugging PLC software and such, also did the stuff for hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and assembled gearboxes and other mechanical parts of the machines, but then I went to university getting a degree in engineering, now I work in control engineering/embedded software for the electric drives of electric cars

your job is probably pretty safe, people aren't suddenly not going to need telecommunication anymore

and there will always be stuff breaking or new connections needed

ACTUALLY we just went through what the company calls a surplus where they indicated that we were over headcount for the area. The amount of work we have is cyclic so some of the year we're overencumbered and some of the year we're scrambling to find things to do with a tiny bit of time between the two where it's just right. Since 2014 we went from 12 guys on the team to just six before the surplus, we're currently down to five thanks to the forced headcount reduction.

that sucks

esp. as then suddenly they'll hire unexperienced people when there is more work to do

So five guys (yup all dudes in this market but I've heard there's a female tech that uh...never actually comes in to work as she's constantly off for FMLA stuff) for this whole county and three guys for the next county up

so do they give you aid from teams from other areas around your county in general?

if there is less to do there etc.

No, they haven't hired anyone in this company specifically for this job since...heck when was that. 2001, maybe? They've been gritting their teeth trying to get rid of this job title for ages

yeah so they are sort of wearing down everything

And yes, sometimes 'loaners' come in from other markets when they run out of work

they see it as an established market with not much growth to come, so they'll just try to take out as much money as they can for each year

I mean in the end a telco is a property business (owning the tubes with your telco cables), and you guys are the janitors 😄 (no offense)

They could drop a TINY bit of money and upgrade our fiber fed Xboxes to full VRADs...push that internet signal farther out

:/

Oh, no you're absolutely correct...janitors, though. I like it. One of my coworkers called us certified turd polishers

that reminds me

you heard that US politician calling the interent "a series of tubes"

he was ridiculed for that, but I think it is kind of true, the largest cost is actually laying the tubes that the cables go into

I really just avoid a lot of the governmenty things...those guys are on a separate level and way out of touch

then the next big cost factor is the actual cables, and then far behind in cost comes the electronic devices like DSLAMs and routers etc.