I used to consume drugs, and I’m cool and have mental health problems, so, both!

Best/most honest answer here.

It just depends.

I moved back in with my mom for about 4 years while I went back to school. I moved out 2 months after I graduated, once I secured a job in my new field.

I’m so tired of this dumb trope. No, your self-diagnosis is not helpful. And yes, you can get diagnosed if you’re poor. There are many ways to do so, you dont have to go through a fancy psychiatrist, and the US public Healthcare system will actually pay for it.

I got to learn a bit of MasterCAM in school, it was fun!

Go to college for something that you can get a good job in. I have an associates and my friend has a masters. I make more than she does, and always have in our respective carriers.

Just saying “fuck the expense” is the reason she got her batchelors in art sculpting, and had to get a masters in something more practical.

Oh, that is super slow, but very, very cool. What a view of the world that most people don’t get to see!

Oh, okay, interesting. I do physical substation design, so there’s a lot of overlap there. Just right now I’m slogging through conduit details, lol

You got this! I went back to school in my mid-30s, and now 2 years after graduating, my life is immensely better. :)

Of course, I went from no degree to an associates, so a bit different in terms of degrees, but it definitely helped.

Which partif the grid?

Can I ask how your day-to-day is? Is it stressful, or with long hours?

I’ve always wanted to get into aerospace, but it’s such a tough market to get into!!

I vote all electricians be called power rangers from now on.

Do you operate those from above ground or do you operate inside of them as they move through the earth? Super interesting!

I’m a Substation Designer. I work closely with electrical and mechanical engineers to design the layouts for electricity sites that transfer high-voltage electricity to low-voltage, and low-voltage to high-voltage. You drive by a few of these sites every day most likely, as they’re a massive part of our electrical grid.

I stumbled into this job by accident, and I’m really glad I did, because I love it. :)

I do have access to like 50 engineers, at least one of them would volunteer.

Yes, i love my job. I design substations. I feel like my work matters, and I get a thrill that I have a hand in bringing our electricity power grid to life.

Now n’ Laters. They’re actually all nows and none laters, I can down 4 boxes easy in one sitting.

I use 1440, which sums up daily news in a fact-based way and leaves out all opinion. It’s magical. It takes 10 minutes to read and I’m not bombarded by why “libtards are destroying america” or why “this ties back to trump destroying democracy” somehow.

Highly recommend it for daily news.

Hey, thanks. Yeah I feel a little lightheaded/spaced out today, like I definitely realized I effed up, but never again.

I got lost and almost stuck out on a hiking trail in the desert after dark. It was raining, I was soaked through, and so was my dog. It wasn’t supposed to rain, and I’d taken this hike before. Granted, never by myself, but still.

Luckily I found my way back to the trail head just as it was getting pitch black, but I was seriously scared there for a bit. I kept apologizing to my dog for being so fucking stupid to go on a two hour hike in the late afternoon with no emergency gear and no “just in case” rain protection.

…this happened 5 hour ago, btw, I can’t sleep, I think I’m still in shock a bit at how close I came to possibly dying. And for bringing my dog down with me.