Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Rise Of The TRADWIFE: Is Gen Z Bringing Back Gender Roles" video.

  1. I am the 2nd of six kids, I was ten (sister) and thirteen (brother) when the last two came along, and I had to help raise them and work the farm. I have two of my own kids, when I was 25 and 27, they are 27 and almost 30 now, both daughters. Raising kids is not difficult compared to the jobs I have done in my life. CNC machinist/programmer, farming, auto mechanic/shop owner, and Air Cargo in the USAF where I lifted heavy stuff and pushed even heavier things all day every day in the two largest airlifts in world history. Kids are easy, you keep an eye on them while you do other things, and you teach them about what you are doing. I taught my kids how to read using emblems on my old muscle cars. The first letters they learned were GTO while sitting on my knee at the nose of my 1970 GTO. Then Firebird, Pontiac, and on we went learning letters, the sound they make, how to write them, and by the time they went to school both my kids were reading high school level. I taught them math with my wrenches, metric wrenches are great because they are longer as the wrench gets bigger and they have a number on them. Only problem (very slight) is they start around 6mm. Fractions are easy when you use wrenches. My daughters also learned about cars and trucks, because after my factory job machining piston rings, I worked on cars in my tiny one car garage. I would take them out there with me, sit them on the fender, and teach them about what I was doing. Its fun rebuilding a Th350 transmission with your 6 year old daughter learning how. I worked 50 to 70 hours every week in the factory trying to stay ahead of the wife's spending, which is impossible. Give her any amount of money and she will have it gone and you overdrawn in a week, she will waste it on frivolous junk and have nothing to show for it. Working all those hours and still spending time with my kids, its easy when you don't waste your life watching TV. Spending time with my kids was vastly more enjoyable, and rewarding than working any of my jobs, and I am damn proud of the work I did in the USAF. Lots of humanitarian airlift too... just sayin. Raising kids was the easiest thing I ever did. After the divorce when I would get to have them overnight while I was on leave, then for the summer after I got out in 2005, was not a problem.. once I got them to understand life is different at my house. They had things to do and there was none of the bad things their mother had them doing, like shoplifting. The ex did her best to turn them against me, but with me they did not get screamed at, nor did they get hit, and there was always food in the house for the entire month. Their mother would rip through the monthly checks in the first week and then have almost nothing left to eat at the end. She still doesn't grasp that you have to stretch it for the entire month, and she turns 50 this fall. I'll take raising kids over working a job any day. I would love to have someone to teach everything I have learned over the years. I had to learn it all on my own, because my dad was not someone I wanted to be around. I got hit when he was around. I left the farm at 17 and never looked back. Dad quit farming soon after that, nobody was there to do the work and farming in the 80s and early 90s was not profitable. We finally got along somewhat ok when I was 45, and I fixed an old 1964 Plymouth for him that he had just bought. He got back into cars because of my younger brother and I being into them so heavily. He learned not to hit me anymore when I was 16, and I KO'd him. Only took one time. He is gone now, the hospital ended him in 2020 after a minor car accident when he was 76. As for how difficult it is to make content for online? I make car videos, and I work on my cars that I show in my stuff, making the video and editing it is simple and easy. It takes a lot less time and effort than rebuilding an engine, installing a transmission, or doing whatever else. Think of all the ones on webcams, spending hours every day to get money for taking things off... Best I can do is sand the old paint off a body panel..
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