If you're a young guy who feels deficient in masculinity I promise you'd gain infinitely more from working on a residential construction crew for a year compared to following some trad manliness blog trying to sell you beard oil or whatever
You will:
- acquire skills that are useful and respectable, including the ability to fix up your own home
- learn how to banter and handle confrontation
- grow immensely in accountability/integrity
- get ripped
- get humbled (a lot)
- acquire skills that are useful and respectable, including the ability to fix up your own home
- learn how to banter and handle confrontation
- grow immensely in accountability/integrity
- get ripped
- get humbled (a lot)
Addendum: if you enter manual labor thinking "Oh boy time for masculinity camp! This will be so based" you're a dork and probably won't make it. The good stuff comes if you're willing to shut up and submit and work really hard
Also some contractors will treat you like a son and some will make you shovel asbestos in a decrepit basement without PPE. The quality of your experience is massively dependent on who you work for
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