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21h ago
inShowerthought: I spent years reading YouTube comments wrong, and a reply on a cat video last Tuesday made it click.
Wait, you went a whole year reading Reddit wrong, @graceblack? That must have been so confusing.
1d ago
inMy old band saw motor gave up the ghost last Thursday
Oh man, I've totally been there with the duct tape fixes! My old bandsaw motor died and I jury-rigged a washing machine motor to it for way too long.
2d ago
inThat job in the old bank building last month made me rethink how I handle transitions
We did that on a 1950s slab with a huge crack. Tapered strips saved us two days of grinding.
3d ago
inUpdate: My old mentor from my first job in Chicago called me out on my resume last week.
Honestly I see this all the time where people list duties instead of wins. My first edit is always to swap "responsible for" with actual results I can measure. It forces you to show your real impact.
4d ago
inMy old client contract was a mess, so I rewrote it after a bad week in 2022.
Had a client try to skip out on paying for revisions once because it wasn't in writing. My one pager now has a bullet point list of what counts as a new round of work. It's simple but covers the usual fights.