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

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291 points Michelangelo11 | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 00:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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class3shock ◴[06 Nov 24 20:52 UTC] No.42069187[source]▶
Jives with all the trades in general. Sometimes you have people being insulting who are genuinely trying to have fun with you, other times it's just people using that as a cover to be assholes. Often you are expected to just take brutal conditions with a smile even though they aren't safe and even though everyone knows you should say no, but no one wants to be "that guy". Customers can be condescending and mean, often for no real reason other than that's who they are and the trades in general put up with that kind of person because they don't have the draw of higher end gigs.
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1. Whoppertime ◴[08 Nov 24 12:39 UTC] No.42086392[source]▶
It goes back to how society deals with outliers In Japan I commonly hear "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down". In America I commonly hear "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" I suspect both are true depending on the circumstances
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2. class3shock ◴[14 Nov 24 01:58 UTC] No.42132377[source]▶
Out of curiosity are the trades in Japan a higher end gig? Or similar to the US? In the US alot of trade jobs are low end and the people in them don't exactly take pride in their work whereas I've always had the impression Japanese folks have more of a focus on doing a craft, whatever it may be, well.