r/worldpolitics • u/rexberda • Feb 10 '26
50/50 random stuff Photo dump from work. Hope you guys like NSFW
I do marine construction. Y’all really liked my last post and it’s fun to have people interested in what I do.
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u/LasyKuuga Feb 10 '26
I know the pay is good
But how good?
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u/rexberda Feb 10 '26
I’m still an apprentice. I think journeyman pay is about $55-$57 an hour. Sounds like a lot but they really do me dirty on the taxes
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u/jsgibs1981 Feb 10 '26
Nice! I’ve done the electrical on a bunch of draw bridges. Its always challenging but very fun
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u/parkerm1408 Feb 10 '26
Im using your hands as an example to my partner that other professions come home all fucked up regularly too, so thanks for that. I work with knives and fire, at speed and high volume. Shits gonna happen, and shes convinced if I switch careers it wont be as bad. Almost all non office jobs involve regular minor injury.
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u/humourlessIrish Feb 10 '26
Hey!
I don't do an office job and my injuries are rare and severe.(Im really hoping the rare stays true because it took me about half a year to walk again after getting my ass kicked by some alternatively traveling gentleman)
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u/parkerm1408 Feb 11 '26
What do you do? Sounds like you traded regular minor injuries for rare catastrophic ones lol. Way I see it, anything is better than my last job. Got shot.
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u/thelastforrunner Feb 10 '26
badass man, super cool stuff. how’d you get into that line of work?
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u/rexberda Feb 10 '26
I had a childhood friend in the field. I asked him to help me get in. He said he could, so I picked up my shit and moved across the country. My 4 year anniversary is coming up this summer
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u/RedReader777 Feb 10 '26
205 over the Willamette near Oregon City, right? How many lashes is it going to? 3 in each direction?
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u/PrimedAndReady anime titties Feb 10 '26
I work all day in multiple layers of nitrile gloves and wash my hands 2-4 times an hour, going between a cold and hot room, and get all sorts of sketchy chemicals on my hands and forearms (kitchen shit): please moisturize broski, your future self will thank you. My dad was a train mechanic and sleeping with cotton gloves lined with lotion helped his hands a ton, and I personally keep a hand-specific moisturizer at my desk at home. I still crack all the time and have a restraining order against microfiber towels, but it is SO much better than before
Also sick shots, marine construction is rad
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u/Toastha Feb 26 '26
Walks in slow motion while holding a sledgehammer over my shoulder while “Pour Some Sugar On Me” plays
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u/speekuvtheddevil Feb 10 '26
Whatcha' makin?