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MAKING FUN OF UNSAFE MECHANICS
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Aug 16, 2024
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I have a question and I was wondering, how do you deal with being made fun of for trying to be safe at work
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Honestly, that's a great question and it's actually kind of a sad question because when I was learning to become a mechanic, most of the contractors, most of the mechanics that I learned, most of the skills that I know how to do now from were older than I am
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And you might think this is funny, but I think I grew up in a different world than you have now
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I kind of was in that generation of people that looked at safe versus unsafe more of, you know
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falling in the common sense realm and also how dangerous really was it
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But I think it's sad because I really wish I had more habits and skills of thinking of safe practices
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I guess. I would really wish I did wear gloves more often and I did wear hearing protection more often
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The one good thing that I do have is I have the habit of always. wearing sunglasses because most of the time that I was working on engines, I'm outside, I'm in the
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sun and people make fun of me even when I'm inside because I wear glasses like sunglasses inside
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because it's a habit. And it's a form of eye protection for me, but, you know, people still say
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stuff. Like, why are you wearing glasses inside? But that's just because I'm willing to record a bunch of
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stuff and put it on the internet so that way you can learn how to do things. Outside of that, though
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that's the only real safety habit that I have. Everything else is basically, you know
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get the job done and not really thinking about it, where I wish that I did develop the habit
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of wearing gloves when working with chemicals, carburetors, cleaners, oils, and all that stuff
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But again, I grew up in that generation of people that were smoking cigarettes while cleaning
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carburetors and no one really cared about it. It was basically about how dangerous is it
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is it going to cause, you know, serious harm? Or is it a..
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it going to cost some money. And as long as it didn't break those two rules and no one really
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cared, it was just about getting the job done where I didn't have the ability or the option
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to learn those habits And now that I older I just haven put in the work to learn to have those habits which is unfortunate for me So I think that if anybody is making fun of you for wanting to wear gloves wanting to have ear protection wanting to
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wear eye protection, I mean, you shouldn't even listen to those people and just brush it off
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You do you, it's not a big deal. And in my opinion, I wish I had that. Because the habits that
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you develop now as you're trying to become a mechanic or you're becoming a contractor, you're working
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in construction, whatever you're doing, you know, I mean, professionals wear gloves. It's just
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what it is. People that are on a roof wear safety harnesses. People that are cleaning windows on
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skyscrapers. They wear safety harnesses. Like some of the safety equipment is there because it's
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mandatory. Accidents happen and things can happen where people get hurt. I mean, cars fall on people
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all the time because they don't have them jacked up correctly and they're just getting the job done. But
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doing it in an unsafe way. So learning the skill to be safe is probably better than it is to have the
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habit of working quicker and unsafe because it's going to end up coming around and biting you in the
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tail in the end. Again, you get older like me whenever you have been doing something for 10, 15
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20 years, the habits that you develop are going to be almost unbreakable. I mean, if you
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do the same thing over and over and over for 15 years, it is very, very hard for you to learn
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the habit of changing that and wearing ear protection, wearing gloves, stuff like that. But
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when you're 40, 50, 60 years old and you can't hear, you can't see, you can't do anything
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you got cancer from all the chemicals, it's a way different situation because there's no
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reverse of it. So, honestly, I think it's very sad that you do have that. You do have that. You
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issue granted there's obviously this generation and the way things are now of
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people getting offended by everything I'm not falling into that camp at all I
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think that you know that just a sad situation but life not fair so having the mentality of being a victim or always being offended is also a very bad habit So being able to find the medium between the two of people being able to make fun of you
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and you just brush it off your shoulder, you need to learn that skill right out the gate
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You know, you stop being so concerned about what other people say because not everybody is going
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to be able to communicate with you in a manner that you're going to like. And people are going to say things that you don't like
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They're going to talk to you in a way that you don't like, and you need to be able to brush that off
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So, for one, don't get offended on that kind of stuff because that's just the way some people are
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I heard a pretty good quote the other day. Someone said, you know, hurt people, hurt people
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And that's true. You don't know what someone else has going on in their life
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So if you're always combative and offended by everything that someone says, then, you know
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you could be setting yourself up for a situation that probably won't end well in your favor
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because you don't know where that other person's at. So don't worry about getting offended as much as being able to brush it off your shoulder and just doing what you want to do as far as trying to learn and get better and work on yourself, period
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I think that looking back at all the people that I've met and all the situations that I've been in, it is way better to take the precautions to be safe than it is to just do something
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I mean, if you've ever met somebody that has had a tire blow up in front of them and now they're paralyzed where their hands don't work, they have a quirk in their shoulder, or they have half their face messed up because they were just trying to get something done and they didn't think about it and boom, tire blows up in their face or they have a fire or whatever
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Those kinds of situations do happen. And so having the habit of thinking about those situations and taking the precautions to make sure
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sure that you're doing the job, but you're doing it safely, I think that's a good thing
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And I don't, and I wish people didn't have to make fun of other people for that. But at the
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same time, people making fun of other people is kind of also a way of someone saying, hey, you know
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maybe you should be doing this this way because what you doing is unsafe So if you doing something in an unsafe manner then if someone makes fun of you that might be their way of trying to help you and show you that hey you need to do it this way because if you don
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then you're going to get hurt. It's just like touching a stove. If a little kid goes to touch a stove
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the parent is obviously going to smack their hand out of the way. You know, obviously they're going to smack their hand and it's going to hurt, but at the same time, that kid's way better off
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getting the smack on the hand, and then they are putting their hand on the hot stove. And then when they
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put their hand on the hot stove they could have permanent damage but they'll never do it again if we
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look at that in the real world in the field if you take a saw and you run a saw across your leg and you bleed out
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there are no do-overs you're not going to respawn that's it game over so it is way better to develop the habits
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early of being safe and wearing gloves wearing air protection wearing eye protection than it is to just
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go out and just trying to be always in a hurry and get things done and get things done in an unsafe manner
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that's kind of my two cents on it and just don't be so offended if someone's making fun of you
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for being unsafe they're probably trying to help you to be safer but if you're getting made fun of
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for wearing gloves or wearing eye protection or wearing ear protection that's a different story
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and just don't even listen to the other person because that other person when they're 40 when
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they're 50 when they're 60 when they can't hear they can't walk and they got cancer and they got all these
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other problems, that's not going to affect you at all. So just brush it off your shoulder
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don't listen to them, or just say, hey, thank you. I appreciate it. Awesome. Thank you
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Love your opinion. And that's it. Move on and forget about it. It's sad that it's kind of like
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that. But at the same time, think about yourself, develop the habits, try and wear gloves
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try and wear eye protection, try and wear hearing protection. So that way when you're older
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and working in the field and doing the things that you love, building things, fixing things, coming up with new stuff
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you'll be able to do that for a lot longer than you would if you didn't and you get old
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and you can't use your body because you have abused your body for so long
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without using any kind of protection or being safe
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