Another day of being reminded of how useless I am, as a construction worker.
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Play to your strengths and pay other people to do what they’re good at.
Yeah, but you're pretty. That's gotta be at least good for morale on the job site. That's worth something. 🙌
You?
In work boots? Khaki tight work pants? Suspenders? And a hard hat?
Wave the flag just right, please!
And say some of that intelligent shit you always do as you wave it
Construction or dev ?
Construction. House renovation.
Not because I'm incompetent, but because I can't keep up with the guys.
I don't know how they work so fast. I'm in awe.
It looks so effortless, when they do it. How is that a thing?
I tried to keep up, but just ended up lying on the floor, despondent, and they sent me home.
Can't even raise my arms, anymore.
You’re using muscles you might not have used in a while. Stick at it, they will build faster than you realise. And just think of the prize at the end.
I've been doing this for weeks, tho.
The guys are like you said: They get faster and faster and hardly seem to notice the effort, anymore.
But I'm just getting run down and ground into powder.
Mmm. OK, take a step back. What are you trying to do right now exactly ? What can you do to help ? I am willing to bet that when it comes to detail you will be in your element.
Yeah, I gave up plastering and painting because I was just getting on their nerves, and do the taping and edgework, but they are so fast, now, that I can't stay ahead. I'm like a speed bump. 😭
I'll be so glad, when this is over.
I was taping up the kitchen and they painted a whole floor. I just can't, anymore. I'm just done. Ugh. Feel ridiculous.
And I was using a ladder and standing on the countertops and nearly fell off and they were like, umm, Stand aside, and then finished the rest, just by reaching up and it's like, I nearly killed myself trying to do that. 😭
OMG that was so fucking scary.
I can't even tape the top of the doors without a ladder. I must be like 5'2", now. No joke.
Lady H can’t set the knobs on the oven without steps 😂
We had to get a special oven, with a retracting door, because it's mounted at countertop level and a folding door would be at face-height for us.
And the guys have to bend over, to use the sink or the countertops, so they're always cutting things at the bar. 😂
In that case you’re perfect for management or supervisory role
The edging is always the most time intensive thing though, if you do are doing it right. When I am decorating, the amount of masking tape I get through is probably worth more than the paint
Takes 4 evah.
I tell myself that they're only so fast because I taped and covered everything so precisely, but I still cried. 😂 Feels like I'm being overrun by a herd of rhinocerous with paint rollers.
Ugh, just no. Glad I learned to code. I am definitely not Bobette the Builder.
It’s a useful skill. I can’t do half as much as I wish I could
It’s probably correct, though. Trust me. Anyone can throw a roller around, the edges are where it’s at
It feels like I'm not even doing anything, but I'm exhausted.
Oh, just remembered that I was bedridden with the stomach flu, on Thursday. Maybe I'm not over that.
We just found out that the guys hide stuff from us girls, in plain sight, by putting them on the top shelf of the closet, so we put all the Christmas cookies on the bottom shelf.
In a completely unrelated matter, do you enjoy ski jumping ?
No way. 😂
Well watching it 👍 We love it
She mentioned being short but I don't think she's THAT short🤔.
Most men view physical labor as a form of the therapy. We love it!
No matter how much we try, we can't compete with testosterone. I discovered that a while ago with my boys. I work hard to stay in shape and stay strong. They do nothing. My "baby" opens jars for me now.
Yeah, that's the thing. I'm unusually strong, for a woman, but no chance.
Also, that skeleton. Moving furniture, I was torturing myself, trying to grasp things with my little hands. Kept dropping everything and everyone was exasperated.
Or I'd pick up a big, heavy box and had to carry it at chin height to climb the stairs, so that I can raise my knees to the steps, which is BRUTAL. And I was struggling with one 30 kg box, at a time, and the guys climbed past me with THREE.
And the long-arm leverage, is real.
My baby has shoulders literally twice as wide, as mine. I was using a telescope to paint a high ceiling, but both of my hands were on the lower-third, so it was like I was just swiping past. I couldn't press upward and roll, could just sort of poke, so it was like I was stamping.
That’s where I excel. Lol
Respect.
I'm good at anything requiring someone close to the ground, able to crawl into small niches, or with little fingers.
Yeah. So. That's about it.
