I'm always so glad that this is the instance I chose to join in the Great Migration, and equally glad that I've been welcome here. Keep up the awesome work and thank you for keeping the communication so open.
Do what pays the bills while you figure out what sort of trade work you might enjoy, look for paid training/apprenticeship spots, low voltage automation controls is a tech field that interacts with the trade a lot, I'm a maintenance tech and interact with our controls guy all the time.
For federal offices yes, for state offices it would require a constitutional amendment. I think Maine is decently progressive despite the second district.
I wouldn't be able to stand up for others as effectively if I hadn't been at least somewhat hardened by the bullshit and bullying by now.
Unfortunately HTFU is valuable advice in a lot of blue collar spheres. When I give it I typically caveat that it's only a shell, and you have to remember how to take it off.
That's kind of classist ngl, implying that you should only get married if you can afford a two week international vacation?
Or European, but that's still holding something over my American, married on a beach by my mother in law, right back to work, no honeymoon no money for gifts no vacation time to take anyway ass.
But I understand the sentiment, I'd been with my partner 11 years before we got married, we knew how bad it could get without being the Griswalds
“The department holds the individual responsible for sending the threatening email fully accountable for setting this tragic chain of events into motion.
Oh you've met my "supervisor" Dave?
Why is "supervisor" in quotes? You'd know if you knew Dave.