Bill Braski
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Girl you should be more scared of being poor than being unmarried…


This is successful founder of Airtable Howie Liu & wife (she’s 3 years older). They have a great life together, new baby, and I’m sure he’s a loyal provider husband & dad. But she’s not genuinely sexually & romantically attracted to him. To deny this reality is cope.

















I graduated college right after I turned 21 with a degree in Chemical Engineering. I looked like I was MAYBE 18. My first job was as a Process Engineer in a factory that made molded polyurethane foam seat parts for cars. The factory had been around for a number of decades, and was unionized (UAW). The average seniority of the union workers was 25 years! I was idealistic and assumed everyone went to work to do a good job and help the company succeed. Boy, did I learn some life lessons those first couple of years! As a Process Engineer my job was primarily to make sure the production line kept running and was making “good parts.” A few months after starting I was moved to the second shift (3-11pm), and once management left at around 5pm, the only non-union workers in the building were myself and the Shift Supervisor. I learned that many of the union workers liked to play games with me by stopping the production line in creative ways. I quickly figured out how to solve the problems they created to keep the line running, but there were some methods they used that - because of the union contract - would require a union maintenance man to come “fix” the issue. The maintenance men of course played the game, too, so would take their time when “troubleshooting” the issue so the line remained stopped for longer. I then realized that in most cases I was better off just fixing the issue myself and have the company pay the union for the inevitable grievance that would be filed. Those experiences very much influenced by views of unions. Ironically, a number of years after I had moved on from that factory, there was a proposed union contract on the table - that they were told needed to be accepted in order for the factory to stay open - that was voted down, so the place in now closed, and has since been demolished. Those were interesting times…










