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Unskilled labor my ass (Original Post) Aviation Pro Sep 2025 OP
Watched the whole almost 16 minutes. Prairie_Seagull Sep 2025 #1
fascinating Be Leave On Sep 2025 #7
Fascinating UpInArms Sep 2025 #2
been a fan of these type videos for a while now :) AllaN01Bear Sep 2025 #3
another Celerity Sep 2025 #4
Amazing coordination with a number of these. KS Toronado Sep 2025 #5
I spent a summer making the little latches that hold up the oxygen masks in airliners. hunter Sep 2025 #6
I'm sure that all of the participating workers are patriotic, WHITE, English speaking citizens. Ping Tung Sep 2025 #8
Learning something and getting good at it are two different things Warpy Sep 2025 #9

Be Leave On

(400 posts)
7. fascinating
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 01:42 PM
Sep 2025

I once had a button I could pin onto a shirt that read,
"Work fascinates me. I could sit and watch it for hours."

hunter

(40,392 posts)
6. I spent a summer making the little latches that hold up the oxygen masks in airliners.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 12:52 PM
Sep 2025

Thankfully we rotated through the stations -- the stamp presses, the lathes, and some assembly -- which kept the work from being unbearably monotonous.

Quality control was intense and safety protocols strict.

It was not a job for the careless.

I came out of that with a great respect for my high school metal shop teacher who had seemed absurdly demanding to a class full of clueless fourteen and fifteen year old boys.

Yeah, shop was a boys-only class then.


Ping Tung

(4,151 posts)
8. I'm sure that all of the participating workers are patriotic, WHITE, English speaking citizens.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 01:55 PM
Sep 2025

Or, soon will be thanks to Trump and the not-so-skilled ICE-thugs.

Warpy

(114,413 posts)
9. Learning something and getting good at it are two different things
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 02:48 PM
Sep 2025

I can teach someone how to spin--history, theory, and practice--in less than half an hour.

It's still going to take them a hell of a lot of practice, often years, to get really good at it.

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