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[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

Oh trades school, you expose me to such variety.

All the other times in my life put together would not sum up to the number of warnings I've heard in the last two months which include such words or phrases as:

- "asphyxiate"
- "electrocute"
- "crushed"
- "burst"
- "...[number] tonnes... ...your foot/hand"
- "explosive"
- "injury... ...can't... ...anymore"
- "acid"
- "...to the inside of your lungs"
- "hearing loss"
- "...and once you've absorbed it, your body can't get rid of it"
- "criminally liable"
- "...through your body like a knife through butter."
- "scalp torn off..."
- "brighter than the sun... ...blindness"
- "amputate"
- "lost [insert number] fingers."
- "pressurized... ...dirty... ...puncture... ...blood poisoning"
- "collapsed"
- "face/eyes"
- "could put your finger in the hole that went throuh his torso"


I hear office work is bad for you too though.

Comments

[rumi-fish.livejournal.com]

I had nebulous aspirations of learning how to weld one day. Knowing me, maybe I should take up something safer, like knitting.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

It's fun though. You might like the plasma cutter, it's neat, safe, and heats steel to 18000 degrees.

[breklor.livejournal.com]

You get the MOST FUN EVAR.

All I get to do is type stuff and hope the detainees don't sneak guns into the office in their bums and shoot people. The likelihood of that happening is vanishingly small, but it's still fun to say.

[anna-would.livejournal.com]

- "...and once you've absorbed it, your body can't get rid of it"
that would be mercury? mmm Hg


- "brighter than the sun... ...blindness"
weld flair?

Yes, I've heard all of the others too. Even though I didn't get exposed to *all* the other trades, with instrumentation, gas fitting and power engineering, we kinda run the gamut of hazards. That, and BCIT is pretty good about drilling you full of all the possible dangers.

[hundun.livejournal.com]

The former actually refers to extra-high doses of zinc, such as is found on galvanized nails, such as you shouldn't carry in your mouth.

You are correct on number two.

Re: office work

[algae-al-fresco.livejournal.com]

It really depends on whether you want to have the chance of destroying your body/dying horribly or the guarantee of destroying your soul.