PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Shouldn’t you be sleeping?

 

And it was in 1990. That house today is worth over $700K. If my parents had paid full price for it, they would have gotten ten grand less because the housing market wasn't particularly hot in 1996...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olMSQ2WTUi0

 

My house, besides being tiny by comparison, was almost unlivable. Had to insulate, rewire, new drywall, floors, etc one room at a time.

 

Sleep is overrated, especially when you can be posting pointless content on the interwebs

 

Is CZ a manufacturer or a model?

 

Are they Czech?

 

I wanted to share the exciting news in this thread...

Looks like I got a new job!

 

So, Home Depot is still on the table, but that Ken's Krew program didn't work out. They denied my application because, among other things, they thing I talk too much and the program can't provide me enough support; I was understandably quite angry, and my assigned job coach actually apologized for the impersonal email I got. Needless to say, I am 100% done with any program the claims to help people with autism or intellectual disabilities join the workforce, because they are used to dealing with subservient lower-functioning people, and the way they treat people like me is downright insulting. Pardon my language, but the special ed department in public schools treated me like a retard. The only decent special ed teacher I ever had was @Gwyns04, and we're friends for life...

Anyway, I applied at J-Dog Junk Removal a couple weeks ago, and I finally went to one of their offices to fill out the paperwork yesterday afternoon. J-Dog is a nationwide franchise, and you must be a veteran to own a franchise. Veterans and family members of veterans are preferred, but it is not required to get a job with them. It also started maybe a month ago when the owner of the franchises in this year happened to be behind me in line at the scrapyard in his distinctive wrapped truck; I got out of my truck, walked up to his truck, asked for a job, and left with his business card. Shifts are handed out based on seniority, but a typical work week is 7:30am-4pm Tuesday through Saturday.

I will still be scrapping HVAC equipment and occasionally driving for DoorDash and Uber as side hustles, but if all works out this will be my primary source of income; I may still get a part-time job at Home Depot, outside of Ken's Krew, for extra income. I also still have my 401(k) at NAVMAR, the company I was laid off from in October 2023, and there's a chance I could get that job back; Amanda also got a new full-time job at a nursing home and is paying for routine maintenance on my truck like oil changes in exchange for being driven around.

 

So, about @Gwyns04...

I had an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) from first grade all the way through high school. However, while I received a little extra support, I for the most part was a normal kid. I was never in the dedicated special education classes, thankfully. I graduated from high school in 2007 at the age of 18, but I stayed in the system until 2010, when I was 21. That's how I met Gwyn.

I was initially with another special ed teacher who was a total asshole in 2008, but my parents pulled me out of his class in October 2008 for reasons I will explain later, and I ended up with Gwyn. Gwyn's class was in the basement of a nursing home, and as per an agreement with the nursing home's owners, the students did work around the place to learn skills. I had no desire to work in a nursing home, at least not doing the traditional jobs one might expect to do in a nursing home. However, the nursing home had an in-house maintenance guy named Patrick, who among other things did HVAC work. He took a liking to me and let me follow him around. Gwyn, being the awesome woman that she was still is, totally disregarded her own curriculum and decided that it was more beneficial for me to shadow Patrick. I followed him around and helped him work on air-conditioners; @Stitchgirl90 came to Gwyn's class in September 2009, and I had a crush on her but was too chickenshit to admit it. While Amanda was stuck doing boring nursing home stuff that she hated, I was helping Patrick service air-conditioners. I also learned how to sand and varnish a wood railing, and one of my favorite jobs without a doubt was to operate the trash compactor out back...

Gwyn treated me like a person instead of a diagnosis. Unfortunately, Ken's Krew is more like the bureaucratic pricks I dealt with prior to Gwyn, in 2005-2008...

 

@ColoradoTJ

So, the first special ed teacher I was with after high school was a pompous ass, for lack of better term. He was 26 years old, and he was nice until you crossed him. I entered his class in April 2008 and stayed through June, then came back in September 2008 and was there until October when my parents pulled me out. What did he do? There were a bunch of things that led up to this, but the straw that broke the camel's back came in October when he said the following...

"When you go home tonight, I want you to ask your parents why it is common in military families for kids to address their parents as Sir and Ma'm" or something along those lines; I didn't realize how insulting this was until I went home and repeated it to my mom. He was basically calling into question the way my parents raised me, when in actuality, I was rebelling against the guy because he was a prick; I had been complaining about him for months and my parents didn't take me seriously until that incident. Needless to say, my parents abruptly pulled me out of his class and put me with Gwyn. I was originally supposed to go to Gwyn's class at the nursing home, but for some reason I didn't. Gwyn initially thought I was a bit of an asshole because she overheard something I said that she was not supposed to hear; I said something along the lines of "This is a dumping ground for special ed kids, and I don't want to be here." There were some higher-functioning students, like myself and Amanda, but for the most part it was lower-functioning students.

 

Do they haul junk, or trash?
I ask because you probably won't like hauling a way trash.
Hoarder houses are a nightmare.

I see they also haul off yard waste. Do you have to "cut it" too?

Just trying to look out for you buddy.

I was "hired help" for a weekend. A friend of a friend owned a "junk be gone" type business.
My friend, was the owners friend. I don't care to say it. I quit less than 1 hour in.
Trash, cat shit, gnats, and the smell of cat piss was too much for me.
Just wasn't the job for me.

 

Can’t believe we or I should say you are going to hit 200,000 miles

 

I also had an IEP most of my life