Females in the trade

AubreyMac

Elfbert wrote: »

I'm a welder, worked on building sites/private homes all over the place.

Used to get a lot of stick, and some people who were outright sexist (a few blokes have even asked for me not to be allowed to work because I'm a woman!) But generally people are very nice, although they do all tend to ask why I do the job/how I got into it etc.

A few times early on I was tempted to give it up, because every day was a struggle against !!!!!! trying to make my life miserable, but those few sad folk aside, I love my job, and I'm very very glad I didn't give it up

(Although it still !!!!es me off when I get on site with a boy ten years younger than me - often just a trainee! And people automatically defer to him/ask him questions, even after he specifically says I'm in charge, and has to ask me the answer to every question...)

Good on you.

This is exactly why I started the post in the first place, because I expect I may get curiosity based on my gender.

GingerBob_3

Elfbert wrote: »

I'm a welder, worked on building sites/private homes all over the place.

Used to get a lot of stick, and some people who were outright sexist (a few blokes have even asked for me not to be allowed to work because I'm a woman!) But generally people are very nice, although they do all tend to ask why I do the job/how I got into it etc.

A few times early on I was tempted to give it up, because every day was a struggle against !!!!!! trying to make my life miserable, but those few sad folk aside, I love my job, and I'm very very glad I didn't give it up

(Although it still !!!!es me off when I get on site with a boy ten years younger than me - often just a trainee! And people automatically defer to him/ask him questions, even after he specifically says I'm in charge, and has to ask me the answer to every question...)

Just out of interest, what sort of welding work do you typically carry out in a private home?

GingerBob_3

ViolaLass wrote: »

I haven't read the book but reading the Wiki on it, it seems to rebut your point of view, not support it.

That's right, it does. Which is hardly surprising when you look a the interests and mind-set of the author. I was more interested in some of the critical appraisals.

duchy

AubreyMac wrote: »

Then I don't think I am the one living in shelter.

Although possibly under a bridge

Why do you have disdain for someone living "in shelter" .....do you mean sheltered housing or a homeless shelter or a refuge or something else ? Is English not your first language by any chance ?

AubreyMac

duchy wrote: »

Although possibly under a bridge

Why do you have disdain for someone living "in shelter" .....do you mean sheltered housing or a homeless shelter or a refuge or something else ? Is English not your first language by any chance ?

You not heard the saying 'lived a sheltered life'?

Elfbert

GingerBob wrote: »

Just out of interest, what sort of welding work do you typically carry out in a private home?

Usually installing staircases/handrails/balconies (obviously on the outside of houses for those!) but I've done bits in kitchens, decorative elements that have no purpose as well. And a few decorative screens in rooms which are open plan, but the client wants some 'definition'.

Sometimes we go in to fix any of the above, too, or refurbish, or adjust - for instance, if a family move into a home previously lived in by someone with no kids, and they want extra bars/balusters/rails added into an existing design to make it safer.