Deep sea welding is pretty badass
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I remember watching a documentary about someone who was welding under the ocean, and simultaneously inside of a empty undersea pipeline that they had to swim a ways down to reach the problem area. That's too damn extreme for me. I would sign up to be a doordash driver who only delivers to the worst Karens before I put on a single flipper. :D. Crazy hardcore.
And the accidents… Those documentaries are in a category of their own. If there’s a massive pressure difference between two sides of a wall, all sorts of horrible things can happen. Pure nightmare fuel.
Are those the ones that spend long lengths of time at extremely high pressure and need to essentially live in a pressure vessel for the duration of their work?
Saturation divers. Something I didn't realize, they haul the pressure vessel to the surface at the end of every shift, they don't live at the bottom, but they're under pressure.
But their voices are so funny!
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Not to mention the things drifting around you in the darkness that you can’t see but can probably feel.
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I think glass makers are pretty cool. Casually risk 3rd degree burns every day.
Hell yeah, I've been wanting to sign up for a glass blowing class. I think it would be so cool to have some self-blown glass on display.
Cool product after too.
Hard to beat those pictures
Id give honorable mention to linemen. Casually handling thousands of volts from the top of a bucket truck while traffic whizzes past is pretty badass. Plus responding to emergencies like hurricanes, tornadoes etc. Its also usually a union job.
Im just a wireman myself, I like to keep my shocks under 277V
I knew someone who did this kind of work. They don't wait until the weather improves. They climb poles in 70mph winds with sideways blowing hail and lightning if that's what needs to happen. That's crazy hardcore!
Oh yeah. Waaay more guts than ive got. They make good money and by God they earn it
Linemen also have a cool song about them
Years ago I ran a pub quiz and one of the categories was "Name the song from this description of the lyrics":
A low-level government employee abuses his access to national infrastructure to secretly spy on a woman he is obsessed with. He acknowledges that he has a unhealthy obsession and that he really should back off, but quickly managed to convince himself to carry on, assuring the audience that he is still spying on her.
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Always cracks me up when Ron Swanson sings this while stealing cable for April and Andy 🤣
We had a lineman up here get attacked by a cougar. Fought off the cat with a 4-inch pocketknife, got himself out of the bush and to a highway before getting a ride to the hospital.
Absolute badass.
I've been told fork lift drivers fuck
Almost exclusively by fork lift drivers but they seem really convincing
You're mishearing. They fork.
Forklift operator here, it's all true.
They do
Firefighters are pretty cool.
I disagree; it seems like they'd often be quite warm.
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Do you count movie crews as 'blue collar?'
F1 pit crews?
NASA mechanics?
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I felt cool crushing garbage at a landfill. Gross as hell but garbage crusher feels like riding a boat on the ocean
Air Conditioning installation
But just the window units on the first floor
Someone who operates giant fucking machinery.
You mean like a 40" vibrator, right?
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Tug boat captain.
Plumbers
Source: movies
Driving one of those giant dump trucks you see at mining sites.
So many traditional blue collar jobs have connotations associated with them that make the workers irredeemably uncool.
But, machinists. I just love machining.
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Machinist at NASA.
HVAC technician.
Steeplejack.
naval carpentry, it's something that differs a lot based in the country, and it's usually passed down from father to son
Maybe just plain ol carpenter. Like part of "cool" is unaffected or aloof. A dude or chick who builds their own home and the furniture inside? That's just cool. A lot of the stuff listed here actually takes a decent amount of nerdiness or at least passion. While the jobs are awesome, idk that they're the coolest.
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