Women Can't Last In Blue Collar Jobs
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the difference between being a male and female worker in the construction industry. We discuss the benefits of working in a male-dominated industry compared to working as a female worker. We also talk about what we would do if we were in a zombie apocalypse and how long we would survive it.
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So in the jobs that we listed earlier that men perform, vehicle technicians, carpenters, electricians, metal workers, plumbers,
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vehicle delivery drivers, on-site construction workers, and
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How long do you think you would work in any of the 10 jobs
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Yeah, is that like, I can pick any one of them?
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Yeah. So like, how long do you think you would last before you had to cut?
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I mean, you know, it kind of depends on like the scenario.
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Like I'm quite into the idea of a zombie apocalypse.
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And I reckon I could, you know, like cope if I really needed to.
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But if you're, if you're asking me like, you know, I've, I've got a choice here.
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I can carry on leading the life I do live in which I sacrifice the amount of money that I'm able to earn.
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And in order to be able to work from home for five days a week, nine to five, and manage my own time, because I have other priorities.
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And so, yeah, if I have a choice that is not something difficult, then I'm not doing something difficult.
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So that stuff I wouldn't mind doing and perfecting.
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And like, if there's, you know, a sink that's blocked, I can deal with that myself.
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Why aren't I doing, well, no, I am doing it at home.
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Because I work a job where I'm able to make money to travel the world, because that's what I want to do right now.
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If I had money, if I had the, what did I say the other day?
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I want to go into mechanic school because I want to learn how to fix cars.
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This is stuff that I'm genuinely, it's survival.
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You're on survival, but your job is a bartender.
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But if you need to survive, you do what you need to do, right?
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But I'm saying that's not like what you're saying.
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Like I literally sit at home, like when I, let's say, move something breaks, I will fix it.
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If you actually dedicated time to becoming a builder, you will make way more money and a way better career than what you're trying to do right now.
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I don't have to come in for a month if I don't want to.
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If I could be a builder, right, and still make the same amount of money a year but only come in half the year, why wouldn't I do it?
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But you see, I don't have the same luxury of what you just said.
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I can't choose a job where I can just get up and go whenever I want.
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There's a whole bunch of male bartenders I work with.
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They travel the country singing on tour different things.
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This is why we say women can never understand the disconnect between women and men.
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Most people are not even in the position I'm in right now.
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But I still can't just get up and go whenever I want because of the responsibilities that I have as a man.
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You're saying you don't have the luxury because, again, that is the job that you chose.
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No, the reason why I don't have the luxury to get up and go is not really about the job.
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So if I were to be getting up and going whenever I wanted to or whenever I felt like, I'm literally putting stops on my way to get into where I need to be in life.
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I'm sitting here on a podcast, which is networking, right?
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Look at every successful person that has made any amount of money that you can ever be proud of or say this is a good body of work.
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They never had the luxury to get up and go whenever they wanted.
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But we're saying again, women should be, you know, wives and teachers and not think about money.
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Because men would literally work 80 hours a week to get to where they need to get to.
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I work 80 hours a week in a 40-hour amount of time.
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So instead of working seven days a week, right?
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Instead of working one job seven days a week, I'll work two jobs four days a week.
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I go to try to further what I'm getting into, right?
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If a man decides that he needs to work 80 hours a week to further himself, that's on him.
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I chose a job that's going to give me the luxury to do what I need to do for myself that works for me.
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So tomorrow is your first day on the building site.
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How long is it going to be until you're back doing what you're doing now?
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Because I think that's more the question, isn't it?
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Is what, if I start working on a building site?
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How long do you think you'd last in a construction job?
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You get two weeks out of vacation, three weeks vacation a year?
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I would literally think about it like, okay, if I work a construction job for five years, right?
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I'll work that job, make enough money to build my own, whatever company, whatever like that, and now start another business from that.
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Five years to make enough money to have my own business.
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So, the next, like, Trump Tower, it's going to be Peeps Tower.
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If they give me a visa, I promise I'll move here tomorrow and start building.
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You can get a master's degree and get a visa, you know.
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You can get a visa through a master's degree, though, just so you know.
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Yeah, you get it with a two-year visa or a two-year degree.
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No, you can get a master's degree in a year, one year, and then get a visa.
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What, you mean coming here, going to school here?
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No, like, you get a work visa once you graduate.
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That's what I'm saying, here or back in America?
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That was one of the best advice I've had so far.
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You know, when I was younger, like Saturday jobs and stuff like this.
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How long do you think you could have worked a construction job?
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I get stimulation through the practicality of it, yes.
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But, I mean, you know, I went to study engineering.
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But I quickly realized I want to get my hands studied for the rest of my life.
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I said a lot of very handsome men in construction.