Posted on 06/12/2019 10:50:08 AM PDT by bgill
Thirteen middle-school-age girls are spending the week learning valuable skills as a precursor to possible careers in the construction industry.
The group will build and wire their own lamps, pour concrete and build a free library stand over the course of the week in a bid from the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) to recruit more girls into the industry early.
"There's just not a lot of talk about what opportunities are out there, and that's kind of our goal is to show the kids what else there could be," said Jordan Moore, a specialist at plumbing supplier Ferguson Enterprises and board member at NAWIC's Austin chapter.
Moore started in the industry when she decided she'd rather start her career than stay in college. She became a plumber's apprentice, going to clients' houses and working with her hands. "It was very satisfying work," she said, once she got past the initial double-take.
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Doesn’t sound like too many construction workers I recall. There was one mason, but he worked out a lot. Throwing heavy crap around all day was easy for him.
How many women would be able to take a serious burning from hot tar and live the rest of their lives with a nipple tattooed on? Granted, they wouldn’t be wotking with their shirts off, but still.
Your home page says you are in Florida. Please stay out of Texas. I know 90 year old grandmas here who still hunt, and field dress and skin their own deer.
So did mine...............
Thankfully, after one day, she quit to become a bus driver. I've always thought I might not have been able to fire her if she hadn't quit. I never considered hiring another, it was clear she couldn't keep up. It's really not all that different than men's and women's sports.
Chris Evert said it best when she was the woman's #1 tennis player.
As to designers, and desk construction jobs, there wouldn't ever be a problem. The strength thing WAS a problem.
The building trades are hard to
break into, with illegals basically
taking over the industry. Lots
of drywallers, tapers, and painters
pushed out of the business.
I guess I have to disagree on this.
Divorce is a horrible experience to go through. I’ve never been through it, but people close to me have. The pain of it can be incredible and soul-stunting.
But I can’t imagine the pain and damage to the couple and any children involved, when people who don’t love one another are required to remain in a loveless marriage.
We should have made divorce easier long before we did. But people need to take personal responsibility for all of their choices in life, and that means conducting themselves responsibly in every area, through every change, no matter how things go.
Too many divorces become battles over mere material things; or vicious, spiteful attempts to seek revenge on the other. I don’t exonerate women - or men - for their failures in this area.
i bet you could ALMOST drive a tack in a wall with that little girl hammer, an Estwing it isn’t...
and that pouch never saw a day of work either, but, you know, vagina
I wish I had gone the construction or architect route. In the ‘60s, girls weren’t urged toward those kinds of disciplines.
Lousy analogy; but funny :-)
“Yeah, every girl dreams of toting 50 pound sacks of cement and a tool belt”
The bags will become 20 lbs. And they’re already talking about shrinking plywood to 3x6 feet. This crap won’t end well...
Physical pain is one thing. How would a woman deal with finding her coffee cup full of urine?
I have no idea what you mean.
But we women have a lot of experience with cleaning up pretty nasty messes, and managing to not barf while doing it. I am confident that we would cope.
Hell, most men can’t do that today.
What’s difficult to grasp about a coffee cup filled with urine? Someone did that to the foreman on a job I was on
Years ago, I had to reroof my brother’s house. He had a crew of his friends there, helping to tear off the old roof. The usual good- natured insults were being tossed around, and my mom was on the ground shaking her head. She said a crew of women would have been on the ground tearing each other’s hair out after an hour of that.
Women can take things too subjectively and personally, sometimes. But there are professional women who conduct themselves well.
The problem is that women haven’t been in positions of power and authority long enough yet to have developed a ‘culture’ and attendant ways of doing things. Too many of them are trying to act as men do in those positions, because they have no other pattern to follow - instead of finding their own ways of handling authority.
I’ve worked for a couple of women who were extremely professional and a joy to work for. But until more women get up-to-speed, I’d much prefer to work for a man.
All well and good in the professional world. In the building field, maybe not so much. There was a competing contractor that hired paroled felons, almost exclusively, because he could exploit them. He’d push things until they quit, and they invariably had to go to the contractor’s board to get paid, if they stuck it out. The guy that filled the foreman’s coffee cup was a felon...also the guy with the nipple tattoo. The foreman went sround asking who pissed in his cup. I told him he didn’t want to know, because he might think he had to do something about it, and that would end badly. A smarter man would have figured it out, or maybe he did, and just dropped it. The felon’s attitude was that he ate good whether he worked there or not, because his wife had a good job, and if he got fired for pissing in your cup or pushing you off a roof, it made no difference to him.
Well, I guess that’s why I didn’t understand your initial ‘piss in cup’ post.
That’s not something that women, in general, would do. We have much nastier and more subliminal ways of getting over.
(And that, in turn, is one of our problems, and failures, in the workplace.)
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