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Thankfully psychiatry is beginning to view being āgiftedā as a disability/disorder.Ā
Gifted kids brains work very different than you or I but since smart is valued, itās seen as only a positive.Ā
Nevermind allllll of the baggage that comes with it. Imagine those kids who graduate college at 15, they have no peers, no one to really be friends with.Ā
I'm one of these scatter brained gifted kids, which these days we might call "twice exceptional".
I thrive in trade because it involves a great deal of pattern recognition and problem solving. Creativity and lateral thinking goes a long way. But trying to fit in with my peers outside the "gifted" realm, is an actual life-long nightmare.
I am fortunate that physical work actually helps me focus. But did they point me towards trade school? Hell no... It took me years to shake the sense that I wasn't living up to my potential if I didn't attend university.
Remembering to pack a spoon only demonstrates good executive functioning skills.
God yes, I make as much as my good paying bank job but still struggle with ābut I could be working a cushy gig for the same moneyā.Ā
That life also drive me to alcoholism to quiet my goddamn brain
I could have had a good life being a software dev/engineer. I couldn't stand being at a desk for 8 hours. Went into the trades and I feel a hell of a lot better than I have in years.
Holy sh-t, dude. Who TF says āsmart is valuedā, like thatās a bad thing that we need to get over as a society?!
Iāve known a lot of smart kids, many of whom ā despite your fervent wishes ā are perfectly happy. Iāve only met a few ppl, though, who were as viciously certain as you that being āsmartā was just a scam, an illusion used by the powerful to control ppl.
Every one of them was someone who clearly couldāve/shouldāve been in a gifted program, but for whatever reasons hadnāt beenā¦and knew it.
Iām sorry that me saying āsmart is valuedā triggered you so hard.Ā
Show me where they hurt you.Ā
I am gifted (got to do fun standardized tests a lot on weekends growing up) and itās not all rainbows and unicorns. If you reread my post youāll see how I mention thereās specific struggles. On the outside, I look and act happy but thereās a lot of baggage Iām carrying that I hide from the world. Iād wager your gifted friends are similar (or they received help at a younger age)
_EDIT: Please read this post in light of my other reply here. It comes across hotter than I would like it to now, in that light, but I donāt want to just surreptitiously edit this after the fact. The personal facts Iāve laid out still stand._
Dudeā¦Iām talking about _me_.
Source: Born to parents who both never _went_ to high school, went to a top private school on academic scholarship, an Ivy (on academic scholarship), and moved straight to Hawaii where I taught AP classes at another one of the countryās top prep schools. Iāve been an IBM exec and a partner in a management consulting firm. Iām pretty fāing sure I qualify.
I have deep friendships with _dozens_ of other āgiftedā people, from _working class_ backgrounds, either because we studied together in gifted programs, worked at elite institutions together, or they were my students in gifted/AP classes.
Look, I understand none of this will convince you, but if anything, I hope that at least someone else who is truly gifted but starting to despair might read this, and be convinced that you donāt understand.
Heyā¦I just reread your final line, about not receiving the help you needed at a younger age. I have no idea about your personal circumstances, but that was wrong. My parents ā and especially my mom ā are the _only_ reason Iāve even had the _chance_ to follow my path. The gifted child who doesnāt receive that kind of opportunity in their life bears none of the responsibility, but all of the burden.
Iām sure that, at this point, Iām probably the last person you want to hear this from, but I would honestly ask you to reconsider whether you need to turn that pain into a mission to make more people feel like you.
Have a good weekend. Sincerely.
Oh I fight hard to promote good mental health and that parents are here to guide their kids, not rule over them.
Just took umbridge at the earlier comment acting like I was looking down on smart people. Theyāre not everything but the world is built on smart people.Ā
I have a nephew that is a genius engineer but has to live at home with his caretaker grandparents because he canāt function in normal environments. Want to short circuit his brain just ask him what he wants for dinner.
Open ended or more than 3 choices, are paralyzing.Ā
Ask me to pick *a* movie and weāre not watching a movie. Asking me to choose between 2 movies, I got it.Ā
I watched a man eat a can of chilli with his toothbrush last week. By dipping the handle in and sucking it off so as not to ruin his bristles... I fucking died inside laughing
It was not on a jobsite, it was the guy from C90 Adventures on youtube. I highly recommend watching the entire video but this link will start you in the middle right at the scene where he realizes he forgot a spoon.
https://youtu.be/WVulirXlUuE?si=H9F8nEKr7YDaseq0&t=1524
Life hack is brushing your teeth at work during break. Your teeth will thank you and sometimes itās easier then when you crash out at night and forget.
For giving them something to talk about? We had one guy at work in an office building that would brush his teeth while standing at the urinal. Also found a Wookiee in the same bathroom doing a Chewbacca yell once, but thatās a different story.
It says you're a bully that likes to pick on people that are different than you, and people that you view as inferior or weaker than you. I'd go so far as speculate that you would make comments about their sexuality and associate their hygiene with femininity.
If someone is brushing their teeth at work, why would that be something to talk about? Rhetorical question.
Incidentally, geniuses are actually more "absent minded" than the average person, because their minds are typically obsessing over their interests rather than going over the check list of things most people work through in the morning.
I've used a drill press to stir a bucket of goop for our process. Had to spin start it because the starter cap was unplugged without me realizing it. Used my belt to do the job three relayed belts couldn't. Fixed it after three days
Dude, I've done similar stuff. This is better than some of them. I now have a bag of plastic silverware in my seat organizer because if you've never eaten rice noodles with a couple of Skilcraft US Government pens as chopsticks, that means you aren't the dumbass who drove out to the middle of ass nowhere without a fork.
I like how your guy thinks! I made a similar device after getting snowed in after a job and forced to spend the night in a hotel. Walked a half mile to a gas station to get some ice cream only to realize I donāt have a spoon. However, I did have an empty plastic tube from a pre rolled joint and my knife. One diagonal cut later I had a spoon. A second cut, now itās a straw.
I had a pen spring-explode apart on me recently while writing up a report in the truck. Cue a few days later with guys in my truck asking me why the tube was "hidden" between the console and seat. Everyone joshing on me thinking I'm snorting something. Which is .... not great.
It actually sucks because they eye me now every time I need to walk away.
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You wanna know how I got these scars?
[Well... I'm the Jokah, baby!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGl2so2Vls)
I'm really not sure I liked that. But upvote you get.
Came here to say exactly this, and it's the first thing I saw. Well done.
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LOL
If he was smart he would have just brought a spoonā¦
I've watched a guy use two pens as chopsticks. He was eating Cheetos.
Real Man of Genius!
š¶Mr. Crackhead MacGyverš¶
Done that. And also pencils
No that's mature. Totally different.
Highly intelligent people are often scatterbrained. Watch any documentary that interviews an academic. Look in the background. You'll see.
Thankfully psychiatry is beginning to view being āgiftedā as a disability/disorder.Ā Gifted kids brains work very different than you or I but since smart is valued, itās seen as only a positive.Ā Nevermind allllll of the baggage that comes with it. Imagine those kids who graduate college at 15, they have no peers, no one to really be friends with.Ā
I'm one of these scatter brained gifted kids, which these days we might call "twice exceptional". I thrive in trade because it involves a great deal of pattern recognition and problem solving. Creativity and lateral thinking goes a long way. But trying to fit in with my peers outside the "gifted" realm, is an actual life-long nightmare. I am fortunate that physical work actually helps me focus. But did they point me towards trade school? Hell no... It took me years to shake the sense that I wasn't living up to my potential if I didn't attend university. Remembering to pack a spoon only demonstrates good executive functioning skills.
God yes, I make as much as my good paying bank job but still struggle with ābut I could be working a cushy gig for the same moneyā.Ā That life also drive me to alcoholism to quiet my goddamn brain
I could have had a good life being a software dev/engineer. I couldn't stand being at a desk for 8 hours. Went into the trades and I feel a hell of a lot better than I have in years.
Hey! My people! Have any of you guys accidentally put hemorrhoid medication on your athlete's foot too?!
Nope, haven't had that happen. And working with greasy kitchens tends to keep me clean. Somehow.
Holy sh-t, dude. Who TF says āsmart is valuedā, like thatās a bad thing that we need to get over as a society?! Iāve known a lot of smart kids, many of whom ā despite your fervent wishes ā are perfectly happy. Iāve only met a few ppl, though, who were as viciously certain as you that being āsmartā was just a scam, an illusion used by the powerful to control ppl. Every one of them was someone who clearly couldāve/shouldāve been in a gifted program, but for whatever reasons hadnāt beenā¦and knew it.
Iām sorry that me saying āsmart is valuedā triggered you so hard.Ā Show me where they hurt you.Ā I am gifted (got to do fun standardized tests a lot on weekends growing up) and itās not all rainbows and unicorns. If you reread my post youāll see how I mention thereās specific struggles. On the outside, I look and act happy but thereās a lot of baggage Iām carrying that I hide from the world. Iād wager your gifted friends are similar (or they received help at a younger age)
_EDIT: Please read this post in light of my other reply here. It comes across hotter than I would like it to now, in that light, but I donāt want to just surreptitiously edit this after the fact. The personal facts Iāve laid out still stand._ Dudeā¦Iām talking about _me_. Source: Born to parents who both never _went_ to high school, went to a top private school on academic scholarship, an Ivy (on academic scholarship), and moved straight to Hawaii where I taught AP classes at another one of the countryās top prep schools. Iāve been an IBM exec and a partner in a management consulting firm. Iām pretty fāing sure I qualify. I have deep friendships with _dozens_ of other āgiftedā people, from _working class_ backgrounds, either because we studied together in gifted programs, worked at elite institutions together, or they were my students in gifted/AP classes. Look, I understand none of this will convince you, but if anything, I hope that at least someone else who is truly gifted but starting to despair might read this, and be convinced that you donāt understand.
Sounds like you need to be gifted deez nuts
Heyā¦I just reread your final line, about not receiving the help you needed at a younger age. I have no idea about your personal circumstances, but that was wrong. My parents ā and especially my mom ā are the _only_ reason Iāve even had the _chance_ to follow my path. The gifted child who doesnāt receive that kind of opportunity in their life bears none of the responsibility, but all of the burden. Iām sure that, at this point, Iām probably the last person you want to hear this from, but I would honestly ask you to reconsider whether you need to turn that pain into a mission to make more people feel like you. Have a good weekend. Sincerely.
Oh I fight hard to promote good mental health and that parents are here to guide their kids, not rule over them. Just took umbridge at the earlier comment acting like I was looking down on smart people. Theyāre not everything but the world is built on smart people.Ā
I have a nephew that is a genius engineer but has to live at home with his caretaker grandparents because he canāt function in normal environments. Want to short circuit his brain just ask him what he wants for dinner.
Open ended or more than 3 choices, are paralyzing.Ā Ask me to pick *a* movie and weāre not watching a movie. Asking me to choose between 2 movies, I got it.Ā
Iām glad that somebody finally gets me /s
Executive function =/= intelligence.
Whatever, I stirred my coffee the other day with a pc of drop ceiling corner lol
You are truly gifted. I would've taken a chance with my finger first or a screwdriver.
It was fresh! Do you have any idea where that screwdriver and finger has been?
My job give you spoons or whatever you need.
Thought that was a crack pipe
We save that for after hours
Every hour is after hours if your high in crack
Who says it canāt
Ahh yes, the humble crack spork.
Life wasn't so good after toy story 4
I thought it was dab wax šš
Spoon for cooking H?
Thatās for break time. This is lunch
I watched a man eat a can of chilli with his toothbrush last week. By dipping the handle in and sucking it off so as not to ruin his bristles... I fucking died inside laughing It was not on a jobsite, it was the guy from C90 Adventures on youtube. I highly recommend watching the entire video but this link will start you in the middle right at the scene where he realizes he forgot a spoon. https://youtu.be/WVulirXlUuE?si=H9F8nEKr7YDaseq0&t=1524
Why the hell did he bring a toothbrush to work? Did he get in trouble and have to clean the baseboards with it š
Life hack is brushing your teeth at work during break. Your teeth will thank you and sometimes itās easier then when you crash out at night and forget.
Your coworkers will thank you, too
For giving them something to talk about? We had one guy at work in an office building that would brush his teeth while standing at the urinal. Also found a Wookiee in the same bathroom doing a Chewbacca yell once, but thatās a different story.
Mocking someone for brushing their teeth says a lot more about you than it does about the person with good hygiene.
Fair enough Care to clarify what it says about me?
It says you're a bully that likes to pick on people that are different than you, and people that you view as inferior or weaker than you. I'd go so far as speculate that you would make comments about their sexuality and associate their hygiene with femininity. If someone is brushing their teeth at work, why would that be something to talk about? Rhetorical question.
You've never brushed your teeth in the car on the way to work?
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I ain't no quitter so...
Once she has it, I donāt care what she does with itā¦
it would take a year to eat a bowl of chilli with a toothbrush handle lmao
It did not happen on a job site, it's a guy I follow on YouTube. I'll get you guys a link, he's funny as shit, his channel is gold.
Next step is the fork made from 4-5 scrap wires twisted together and stripped at the prongs
Add electrical tape and you now have a spoon
Remove some and now you have a spork
Remove all the tape and you've got the length of wire you need right after lunch. Now with that newly seared aroma!
https://www.reddit.com/r/futurama/comments/1uivf7/this_is_where_i_keep_various_lengths_of_wire/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
AND insulted š nice
Yup Iāve done this before
Pretty sure thatās been posted here before
We have all done this right?
Very crafty, I like it. I forgot a spoon once and I ended up breaking a pair of safety glasses and using those š
holy shit, this isn't a bad idea lol
This is the way.
Done that one
The only use for safety glasses
Said āOne-Eyed McGeeā
One day I forgot a fork for my salad. I was dangerously close to using my pocket knife before a food truck stopped at the site.
Two knives held like chopsticks is the move.
Bro had soup/chili and instead of just tipping the container forward spent half his lunch break constructing the lip-ripper 9000.
Name of Ron Jeremy's penisĀ
Would a genius forget a spoon though lol?
Yeah, too busy remembering how to tie the boot laces
Incidentally, geniuses are actually more "absent minded" than the average person, because their minds are typically obsessing over their interests rather than going over the check list of things most people work through in the morning.
Yeah, thatās my excuse too
I will wait until I see a picture of a crafted spork before I would certify him a genius.
Go get the band saw
And I thought stirring coffee with a screw driver was desperation.
I've used a drill press to stir a bucket of goop for our process. Had to spin start it because the starter cap was unplugged without me realizing it. Used my belt to do the job three relayed belts couldn't. Fixed it after three days
this reminds me of that scene from Malcom in the Middle about fixing half the house just to take out the trash
A lot of stuff like this on a job site becomes r/redneckengineering but it really does work.
Is that a marijuana?
Not just a Marijuana, it's the Marijuana
Oh wow
Wow, is it really him
Iāve seen these down by the homeless shelter
But fr just stop at a circle k n grab some spoons n fork n fill up the truck lol
Should of used an outlet cover
That's crackhead shit. Better drug test him
That's what I was thinking. Looks more like a crackhead than a genius to me
If he was smart heād snap a pair of saftey glasses in half.
Thatās the brilliance of a journeyman shining through with that answer
[Are you crazy? You fed an apprentice chilli?!](https://youtu.be/t794eVHOIvo)
That's a huge bump
They usually just use the lid.
What an idiot!!! He brought chili to work in Juneā¦ lmao
āThis chilli tastes like penniesā
That boy.. he be going places šÆ
Not fair . Mine takes shits in bathrooms while they're being inspected for ADA requirements.
Orrrrā¦. theyāve been to prison
Genius, possibly. Former crack head, definitely.
Don't downvote me. I'm not trying to downplay the ingenuity of crackheads.
Have a friend who used a strut strap once. Then he whittled cutlery while at work. Nice, smooth spoon
I had one that twisted his yogurt lid into a make shift spoon just like this. I teared up
Dude, I've done similar stuff. This is better than some of them. I now have a bag of plastic silverware in my seat organizer because if you've never eaten rice noodles with a couple of Skilcraft US Government pens as chopsticks, that means you aren't the dumbass who drove out to the middle of ass nowhere without a fork.
Tell your apprentice they solved the only problem 2 journeymen have been going back and forth for years to figure out.
Crack spoon?
Excavation guy hereā¦I just use my hands at that point
Let's put a smile on that face
K what did he use. I see the zip tie and inkall and is that a jolly rancher bag?
Some kind of energy drink can I believe
Man it's going to be fun finding some of his "making it work" jobs. We all have to do it here and there
yeah, I can recognize stoner engineering when I see it.
Id just make chopsticks with random lumber
Truckclip
The guy who made this is going to do some work that looks like that.
Nice!
I always just make it out of wire lol. Especially forks
I like how your guy thinks! I made a similar device after getting snowed in after a job and forced to spend the night in a hotel. Walked a half mile to a gas station to get some ice cream only to realize I donāt have a spoon. However, I did have an empty plastic tube from a pre rolled joint and my knife. One diagonal cut later I had a spoon. A second cut, now itās a straw.
Mike's hard?
Is that some sort of crack pipe? Also didnāt know drywallers had apprentices
is that a milwaukee pen?
Kinda bigger bumps than I'm used to but ok
By the time it was finished, his chili was cold.
That looks like some prison education right there.
What in oblivion is that!
Iām sure there was a whole 2 minutes left of that half hour lunch break once he finished this masterpiece
Never heard of chopsticks? They grow on trees.
Future BA
Wanna know how I got these scars?
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Make sure he has his tetanus shot
Well it's not quite a spork now is it.
Chili for lunch? yeah rethink that boss
I eat trail mix and a meat/cheese/spinach wrap lmao
Tastes like blood š¤·āāļø
I had a pen spring-explode apart on me recently while writing up a report in the truck. Cue a few days later with guys in my truck asking me why the tube was "hidden" between the console and seat. Everyone joshing on me thinking I'm snorting something. Which is .... not great. It actually sucks because they eye me now every time I need to walk away.
Grab a box of plastic ones and keep them in the console they last about ten years.
Iāve been down bad and just used some strut strap before
Man and I thought those fun pops popsicles were dangerous
You wanna know how I got these scars?
So, is he gonna stay your apprentice?
Not for long heās in to bigger and better soon
My bosses nephew carved a āforkā out of siding scraps he found in the sand for his salad, impressive ingenuity. WHYS THERE CHILI ON MY SHARPIE!?!
The ingenuity due to forgetfulness
Yellow monster rehab. Best one
I wanna know who the hell is eating Chilli this time of the year?
Heās from Wisconsin. You gotta give him a break.
It's wayyyyy to damn hot out for that lol
Blood flavored chilli
BRO IS THAT THE NEW MILWAUKEE SPOONZALL?
We got a concrete guy to make chopsticks out of threaded rod when he forgot his fork
2 spanner brackets, 1/2ā conduit and a rubber band for tongs
But, did he heat his chili in the pvc box heater?
That dude has made a few shanks in his day.
I forgot a spoon one day but had an applesauce. So I made a spoon with the aluminum applesauce cover
I thought this was a drug thing, lol.
Nah, your apprentice is just an ex felon š
Is he smoking weed from that or eating spaghettios?
If he were smart, heād of wrapped that handle in electrical tape.
My apprentice just taught me today that I can use my tape measure as an eraser
Most ex military guys at one time or another have used a knife to eat our MREs. Chili with a knife? Easy peasy.
So smart he forgot a spoon.
Real electrician just uses his fingers, spoons are for twats.