I’d say high rise iron workers seem the coolest. Think back to that black and white picture everyone has seen of the two guys sitting on a beam hundreds of feet up eating lunch.
Deep sea welding is pretty badass
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.
Yeah that’s a spooky one. I know a lady working on getting into that now.
I’ve been told fork lift drivers fuck
Almost exclusively by fork lift drivers but they seem really convincing
You’re mishearing. They fork.
They do
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
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 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
Always cracks me up when Ron Swanson sings this while stealing cable for April and Andy 🤣
Plumbers
Source: movies
naval carpentry, it’s something that differs a lot based in the country, and it’s usually passed down from father to son
Anything with a chainsaw
Shit is sick
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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Machinist at NASA.
Tug boat captain.
Steeplejack.
HVAC technician.
Or millwrights that “chase turbines”
Commercial airplane assembly/machinist. Putting together a precision engineered gigantic machine that will last 40 years, carry millions of people, and travel millions of miles.
