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xp29

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I think you are being modest.
I am sure you have a huge amount of experience gained over the years, just like I have in my business.
And to succeed in your business, I will need my whole life, I have no chance.
I can't even learn to weld metal evenly and beautifully, although I try to do it in my free time.
Welding is a whole other animal lol. I can do it but it's never pretty when im done. The motions are different for different type of welders. I learned on an arch and if I loose concentration at all I find myself reverting back to that motion no matter what welder I'm on. Ends up being very messy lol.
It's awesome your taking it up though, it really is a valuable skill to have.
 

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@xp29
I did exactly the same. Was kind of a "tomboy" :)
Childhood and youth photos show usually a girl in an overall and rubber boots, arms scratched up from going into hedges, maybe showing off some animal or plant or fossil, empty bird egg, skull... found. Summer breaks and evenings and weekends like this were just the best - school's out, and off into the woods and creeks :)
When visiting Germany a few weeks ago, I still saw many places that reminded me of that time.
And still, regularly going hiking and exploring is my thing.
I travel a lot for business, and I'm always happy if it's not to a big city (like New York... not my thing) but to a bit more remote place. And then I use any time off to go hiking and exploring.

Avoiding kids: There was nobody who did the same - only kids my parents invited over to try to find me some friends, and I didn't get along with them as they "played typically", scared animals away, or, worse, found it funny to stomp a katydid flat that I just wanted to show them to maybe "break the ice" over doing so and spark interest.
I had some friends that would harass little animals like that. We didn't stay friends very long.
 

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I learned on an arch and if I loose concentration at all I find myself reverting back to that motion no matter what welder I'm on. Ends up being very messy lol.
Do you mean MMA (Manual Metal Arc)?
I am also learning to handle it. But so far I can only weld parts cleanly on thick and straight sections.
 

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I had some friends that would harass little animals like that. We didn't stay friends very long.
Kids didn't easily become my friends (many people don't like autistic traits, so most kids didn't want to befriend me). So, I also had no friends who harassed animals - I had exactly one friend until finishing school.
But I didn't invite anybody over again who was cruel to animals. No way.
 

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Do you mean MMA (Manual Metal Arc)?
I am also learning to handle it. But so far I can only weld parts cleanly on thick and straight sections.
We generally call them a stick welder. They use the actual flux coated rods.
 

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That's AWESOME!!!!!! 👌
I hope you are insanely successful 🙂 (I really mean that to, I'm not just saying it) and your right every dessert IS divine. If I had my way dessert would be the first course 😋.... that's probably why I'm over weight lmao 🤣
If you plan on shipping deserts, for sure post a link when you get up and running, I for one will pass it on to friends and family 🙂
I'd love to figure out how to, but my line of thought is that if I were to ship desserts out of state that they would go bad before they arrived...correct me if I'm wrong. @xp29
 

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Me also.
And the introvert part is: To charge up mental energy, I need to be alone and do something quietly.
Meeting friends is nice - but please not every weekend. Also not each second weekend. Once in a month, we're fine.
Meeting friends is nice - but please one person for dinner or board games, and not a party.
Feeling low energy, and day/ week was stressful? Please don't treat me with going out; I would prefer to quietly cook a meal at home (means: no interactions, no surprises whether what lands on my plate is good) and read a book afterwards. And if really going out, chose the quiet restaurant and not the loud pub.

And so often I feel things are not a good fit: Break rooms are usually crowded and loud (during college, for breaks I always avoided these rooms, even if it was cold during winter - rather ate the lunch I brought somewhere outside; at work, I usually eat either in my office or go on a walk while eating). If there is a multi-day event for e.g. students, new employees (sometimes I overcame myself and said this time I try it) - there is literally not a single hour reserved to retreat and to be alone, days are stuffed with group activities and even meals might have a "fun" component like suddenly dinner is a crime-theme dinner and nobody told you before...
If it would be designed for (people like) me: In a break room, you eat and at most whisper. A multi-day event has as many "be alone breaks" as breaks for eating, and all the breaks for eating are quiet, too.

For me, time alone is as important as a break for eating something or going to the restroom: Something I really need.
Also as a kid, I never found the way kids "normally" interact and play appealing. I liked to quietly draw and paint, or read, or tinker, or watch animals, or look for interesting stones and snail shells... and maybe, maybe talk with a friend about doing so. For sure you had not found me running around and yelling around and laughing out loud and playing those "typical" games. And breakfast/ lunch breaks were not my thing for that reason. If kindergarden or school had a garden, I tried to quietly sneak away.
:) I feel the introvert kinship
 

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I'd love to figure out how to, but my line of thought is that if I were to ship desserts out of state that they would go bad before they arrived...correct me if I'm wrong. @xp29
I can rebuild a car bumper to bumper but baking cookies is beyond me lol. But I'd guess your probably correct 🙂
 

IAmAMirage

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I can rebuild a car bumper to bumper but baking cookies is beyond me lol. But I'd guess your probably correct 🙂
:) Cool idea but I'd have to add a bunch of preservatives to it. I pride myself on homemade, preservative free desserts :D
 

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That is the best for sure. All the processed garbage we eat these days is slowly killing us.
Agree... I'm very much into "not processed, simple ingredients, prepare it yourself".
I've seen it so often that it was not understood and people looked irritated, what problem I might have with a certain "sour cream" - no, this is not a "sour cream"... Or why I'm not buying supermarket bread and instead bake my own.
 

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No kidding. I recently found out im pre-diabetic. No 16 year old should have to deal with that :(
I agree completely. I think with diet correction and exercise you can stop it from becoming full blown diabetes. I hope so, your to young to have to deal with that.
 

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