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post 1622788311 11-16-2020, 11:04 AM
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I’ll start out first. Used to work as a gas station attendant. I worked a lot of early shifts so you can imagine my fate with Monster Energy drinks was sealed. This was back before we had Ultra Zero White. Before I knew lotto scratchers were a thing in my daily life as were Igloo coolers and general laziness.
Thankfully I found a different career path and didn’t follow down this path that leads invariably to domestic abuse and sore lower backs. I still enjoy Monsters but not as much as I used too.

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post 1622788401 11-16-2020, 11:06 AM
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Gas station attendent

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Pick one

Imagine piggybacking on someone else's schtick
Thanks for your input, you frauding fat slampig-Sirfapsalot '20

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post 1622788591 11-16-2020, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted By ChrisLS8⏩
Gas station attendent

Tradie




Pick one

Imagine piggybacking on someone else's schtick
How is it not a trade? It’s no different than plumbing or drying cars at the car wash.
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post 1622789091 11-16-2020, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted By TheCore84⏩
How is it not a trade? It’s no different than plumbing or drying cars at the car wash.
Skilled vs non skilled.
Im skilled and you aren't. I build beautiful massive buildings and you ring me up for some Ciggys and white monster ultra
Thanks for your input, you frauding fat slampig-Sirfapsalot '20

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post 1622789251 11-16-2020, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
So how does the mouth breathing crew work?

When it gets too big, do you guys fight each other to suck on LogOutBrah's alt dink?
Define “alt dink”. Is that a curved one?
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post 1622789341 11-16-2020, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted By ChrisLS8⏩
Skilled vs non skilled.
Im skilled and you aren't. I build beautiful massive buildings and you ring me up for some Ciggys and white monster ultra
Nah bro, Costco gas stations don’t sell those. You mad I was making more than you while you’re hammering nails, skillfully hammering them I might add.
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post 1622789361 11-16-2020, 11:18 AM
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Thank you OP for sharing your journey from skilled tradesmen to white collar life. You are an inspiration to tradies everywhere. I can only hope there is some Lyft driver, mailman, or baker out there reading this. 😌
It is the current year.
post 1622789391 11-16-2020, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
I wouldn't bother with the mouth breathing crew.

For all the intellectual superiority they think they have over tradies... They cannot even grasp simple concepts that toddlers could.

For example, what is, or isn't, a tradie.
Don’t talk about the skilled labor outside of Home Depot like that.
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post 1622789601 11-16-2020, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted By Howiester⏩
Thank you OP for sharing your journey from skilled tradesmen to white collar life. You are an inspiration to tradies everywhere. I can only hope there is some Lyft driver, mailman, or baker out there reading this. 😌
#blessed. I was 2-3 7/11 runs from buying a one gallon Coleman water jug and a carton of Marlboro reds to wash down my daily Carl’s Jr. number 1
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post 1622789731 11-16-2020, 11:22 AM
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They need to start a 12 step program - Tradies Anonymous.
post 1622790161 11-16-2020, 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted By TheCore84⏩
#blessed. I was 2-3 7/11 runs from buying a one gallon Coleman water jug and a carton of Marlboro reds to wash down my daily Carl’s Jr. number 1
I’m glad you were able to curb your energy drink addiction (aka you were able to learn) before you went too far down the rabbit hole. In an alternate universe you could be on your third wife by now. 😔
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post 1622790391 11-16-2020, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted By Polaris⏩
They need to start a 12 step program - Tradies Anonymous.
Step 1: admit you fuked up after graduating high school (or not graduating)
Step 2: Switch from Monster to water
Step 3: Empty your gallon jug Coleman cooler of all the Ultra Zero in it
Step 4: stop drinking Keystone Light
Step 5: stop beating your wife after drinking excessive amounts of said keystone light on the drive home
Step 6: commit to buying a decent truck instead of leasing the Tradesman trim
Step 7: Del Taco is not an acceptable daily lunch
Step 8: pack a healthy lunch in that igloo and don’t fill it up with that Natty light sixer
Step 9: go back to school
Step 10: put out that Marlboro red while in class
Step 11: stop buying scratchers every time you fill up said leased truck
Step 12: buy a suit and apply for a respectable job
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post 1622790541 11-16-2020, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted By TheCore84⏩
Nah bro, Costco gas stations don’t sell those. You mad I was making more than you while you’re hammering nails, skillfully hammering them I might add.
I bet you would miss the nail if you tried, hit your finger nail instead. Good thing you’re not a tradie, wouldn’t want you breaking a nail.
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post 1622790821 11-16-2020, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted By JaymzJ⏩
I bet you would miss the nail if you tried, hit your finger nail instead. Good thing you’re not a tradie, wouldn’t want you breaking a nail.
A monkey can do this, Timothy. A monkey.
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post 1622791391 11-16-2020, 11:37 AM
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[QUOTE=Anachron post_id=1622791061]Maybe you can fill us in on your past, found this in your Bodyspace.[img]//assets.bodybuilding.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/C9LhhWZ.jpg[/img[/QUOTE][img]https://i.imgur.com/6mSmiH4.gif[/img]
post 1622791561 11-16-2020, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted By TheCore84⏩
Step 1: admit you fuked up after graduating high school (or not graduating)
Step 2: Switch from Monster to water
Step 3: Empty your gallon jug Coleman cooler of all the Ultra Zero in it
Step 4: stop drinking Keystone Light
Step 5: stop beating your wife after drinking excessive amounts of said keystone light on the drive home
Step 6: commit to buying a decent truck instead of leasing the Tradesman trim
Step 7: Del Taco is not an acceptable daily lunch
Step 8: pack a healthy lunch in that igloo and don’t fill it up with that Natty light sixer
Step 9: go back to school
Step 10: put out that Marlboro red while in class
Step 11: stop buying scratchers every time you fill up said leased truck
Step 12: buy a suit and apply for a respectable job
A rare yet classic case of learning!
It is the current year.
post 1622793021 11-16-2020, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted By ChrisLS8⏩
Skilled vs non skilled.
Im skilled and you aren't. I build beautiful massive buildings and you ring me up for some Ciggys and white monster ultra
uh oh someone upset this tradie
post 1622793621 11-16-2020, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted By TheCore84⏩
A monkey can do this, Timothy. A monkey.
That’s why I do much more than hammer nailsI would be impressed if you could just do that simple task tho monkey man.
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post 1622794101 11-16-2020, 12:02 PM
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Thinks are looking up for me. What sucks is I only worked as a tradie for 1 day before I got fired and injured for life.

My officel life supplies me with a good atmosphere and I have a comfortable wheel chair.



P.S. Rehab for caffeine, smokes, and Mcdonalds addiction was expensive, but finally getting it paid off.
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Originally Posted By Soonerjohn⏩
Thinks are looking up for me. What sucks is I only worked as a tradie for 1 day before I got fired and injured for life.

My officel life supplies me with a good atmosphere and I have a comfortable wheel chair.



P.S. Rehab for caffeine, smokes, and Mcdonalds addiction was expensive, but finally getting it paid off.
Glad to hear you turned it around brah
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Originally Posted By Soonerjohn⏩
Thinks are looking up for me. What sucks is I only worked as a tradie for 1 day before I got fired and injured for life.

My officel life supplies me with a good atmosphere and I have a comfortable wheel chair.



P.S. Rehab for caffeine, smokes, and Mcdonalds addiction was expensive, but finally getting it paid off.
Another former tradie who has finally learned. God bless.
It is the current year.
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Originally Posted By Howiester⏩
Another former tradie who has finally learned. God bless.
A truly inspirational story.
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Originally Posted By TheCore84⏩
Nah bro, Costco gas stations don’t sell those. You mad I was making more than you while you’re hammering nails, skillfully hammering them I might add.
Lmao at 15/hrcels. When will they learn?
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Glad you escaped that lifestyle brother. God bless
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When I was a young lad of 15 in 1987, I went to work for my friend's dad, who built houses, and had to deal with all the tradies. All we did was clean up the lots and get rid of all the trash, but it was honest work.

The tradies building the homes were all dirty and grumpy and smelly and would pee in a bottle and leave it for us to clean up and cigarette butts everywhere.

One time, they did a lousy job, so my friend's Dad didn't pay them until they fixed it, so instead, they went back to the house in the middle of the night and tore it all up and clogged the drains upstairs and ran all the water, so there was water damage everywhere. That was the type of people those tradies were.

I'm glad I went on to College.
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OP was never even a tradie.
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Tradie or office worker doesn't matter you're still a wage slave.



The real separation is Owner of business vs employees
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Are teamsters tradies ?
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Originally Posted By nick5569⏩
Tradie or office worker doesn't matter you're still a wage slave.



The real separation is Owner of business vs employees
Right...... So instead of being cucked by a business owner , you’re cucked 80 hours a week by your business.

B-b-but Running a business is no more stressful or time consuming than working for someone else because all the ceo 10/k a day Miscers say so

It must be true
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Originally Posted By GlassMoon⏩
Glad you escaped that lifestyle brother. God bless
#blessed
Originally Posted By BigTimeOperator⏩
When I was a young lad of 15 in 1987, I went to work for my friend's dad, who built houses, and had to deal with all the tradies. All we did was clean up the lots and get rid of all the trash, but it was honest work.

The tradies building the homes were all dirty and grumpy and smelly and would pee in a bottle and leave it for us to clean up and cigarette butts everywhere.

One time, they did a lousy job, so my friend's Dad didn't pay them until they fixed it, so instead, they went back to the house in the middle of the night and tore it all up and clogged the drains upstairs and ran all the water, so there was water damage everywhere. That was the type of people those tradies were.

I'm glad I went on to College.
Can confirm all of this. They are a lazy dirty bunch.
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