03/11/2025
It took me a long time to put this post up. Women, please read! 🙏🏽
This post is for you. And to every other woman welder who takes the time to take care of themselves. To make yourself look and feel good after a very physically demanding day. After a day of the physical ”wear and tear” welding does to our bodies.
Keeping up with my nails. Getting new metal oil from in-between my cuticles (and everywhere else for that matter). Stopping on the way home to fix a very broken nail that is ripping up my real nail. The UV protectant spray I put on my hair before I weld, and the recommended two-times-a-week deep conditioners that I definitely do FOUR times a week.
I don’t know if we have time to talk about my face skincare routine. Just trust me when I say. Its. A. LOT. Let’s not forget about the lower extremities. The Tinactin and the plastic sheet mask booties...
Or after a 70-hour week, the “spa time” 🥴😹🦶🏼🧖🏼♀️
The hundreds a little bruises all over the place. Some I’ll dab with a little concealer just so I don’t look like a domestic violence case.
I could go on and on about everything I do to try and not look 77 at 35 as a rig welder...but let’s talk about something a little more important.
TRYING TO EAT HEALTHY WHILE ON THE ROAD!!!! 🌮🌯🍔
Yes, the chimichangas the Red Bulls, the lady who is at the gas station this morning who sells the good burritos... It’s not only so much willpower and discipline for me to have to choose better options, but it’s so much damn work too. To wake up and make sure everybody else has their food and breakfast for the day, and then pack food for myself for 12 hours (food that is not going to give me a heart attack).
To find time in my exhausting very long week, to still make sure my body is staying physically fit other than the occasional roll under a piece of pipe.
So here’s to you ladies, how ever you take care of yourself. And that young lady is proud of it...As am I.
And what an immature response from some of these men. For a woman to post a picture of a very physically demanding occupation and to show the efforts they took to keep up with themselves. These are the same men who would take the opportunity to make fun of us if we rolled out of bed and came into work. Which I have done…I’ve heard all the comments, “Oh, they hired a shim...Here comes the stud welder,” so damned if you do damned if you don’t. A man who makes fun of a woman’s physical appearance because of her occupation is a very, very insecure damaged man.
Frankly, I don’t give a s**t if you take care of yourself or not. If you want to post that picture to show that you are a woman in an industry, have at it. That’s picture-worthy in my book.
Don’t let the schoolyard bullies tell you what you can or can’t be proud of.
Keep at it ladies, I feel your pain. I know all of the creams, lotions, tonics, and spells that we do to keep looking feminine in a very masculine occupation.
Xoxo -Kara Glenn, Founder
