Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by cies on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:21AM (#42064618)

The "physical work workplace culture" fits me much better: more fun, less stringent, less talking behind someones back because maybe he/she made a non-PC remark, no one will go cry to HR for a remark you made that was not even about them personally...

It's not a struggle is a relief!

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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by tiltowait on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:30PM (#42070546)

I don’t miss many things from my last blue collar job, but it was so much more relaxed. My coworkers all felt much more “real”. Too bad the pay wasn’t there, or I’d still be doing it.

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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by clown_strike on Thursday November 07, 2024 @06:03PM (#42082101)

There is camaraderie to it; the sense that you're all facing the same struggle together. Nobody is manipulating others by inventing strawman problems to solve because the work is real enough and you all get punished together when it isn't done.

Once toil became intellectual (theocratic) is where life becomes insufferable and simply unfun. It amounts to human domestication.

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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by johnnyanmac on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:35PM (#42070598)

>less talking behind someones back because maybe he/she made a non-PC remark

it's still a workplace. There will always be people talking behind others' backs

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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by cies on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:45AM (#42075492)

Hence the word "less".

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