Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "He Went Viral Showing Why he's 30 years old working a dead end retail job" video.

  1. He is like so many people I have known over the years who drank or smoked their lives away. People with amazing talents, woodworking, carpentry, welding, metal work, highly skilled guys, become nothing because they crawl in a bottle and can't get out. Watching what happens to people over the last 55 years of living has made me appreciate how I didn't succumb to those negative habits. I have other bad habits, but they aren't anywhere near as destructive as drinking and smoking. I grew up on a farm 20 miles from town, working every day, after school I had work to do. I wrestled in high school so I could do something other than firewood, irrigation pipe, and working with livestock. Why does that matter? Well, as it happens men who live that sort of life growing up have a different mindset. We don't quit, we don't let anyone hold us back, and we work towards what we want. Nobody gave me anything, I worked for everything from age 7 to now. That life also packs muscle on you, because you are lifting heavy stuff all day. Never worked a menial job in retail. Never worked fast food or as a waiter. My jobs were all technical, construction, heavy equipment operator, machinist, CNC programmer, automotive repair tech, engine and transmission builder, logistics in the USAF. I've been homeless, unemployed, divorced living in an old car because Nebraska took all my money to give to the ex. Rarely drank, never smoked, they are a waste of money and I realized that at 19 years old in Germany.. going through a case of excellent German beer a week, realized the money was going towards nothing.. I think urban people are at a disadvantage, because they don't learn how to do things that could be sources of income. I was rebuilding small engines at 8 years old. Did my first V8 at 12. At 7 years old I was driving tractors. At 9 I was driving grain trucks on gravel roads, two speed axles, manual transmission in a 1952 GMC cab over. I helped pour my first concrete slab when I was 8, we built the forms and did all the work, so when I poured the slab for my shop in 2015 I knew how to do it. I learn how to do things rather than paying others to do it for me, I had to on a remote farm with no money.
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