Date: 2023/06/23 - Halftime status(2023 ed) - Themes: IRL, work, opinion

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Recap of last episode of IRL: I was in a "bicycle framebuilding traning" course for the last 6 months right after 3 months of "Intro to Bicycle affiliated jobs" course. From Nov 2022 to Jul 2023.

Finish Line (IRL topic)

the frontside

The framebuilding training is nearly done and yeah, life is still blurry. I really thought about community and stuff. Let me explain: i thought there was some external community actually wanting and willing to hire freshly trained framebuilders. The fact that french frambuilders members of "FBC" (let's call it like that) are our closest choice because the training course was created by a core member of it was indeed appealing. Easy communication, sharing skills. So far our choices were reduced to 3 on nearly 48 possible choices (by interest, for a job dating day).

I actually thought that was the way. "A core member working for the greater good of their job and community by training new people, making a pool of new freshly trained people that know how to handle a torch and the basics & intermediate level of bicycle framebuilding skills". What could possibly go wrong? Well. That's a lot to unpack i'll not give all my thoughts in one blog post.

the outside

from the point of view of someone that wasn't quite acquainted to the club before

here's a list of possible points where i realized nothing will happend:

• the newbz intro to the french framebuilding club never really happend and was highly dependent of the newbz intent of joining FBC as members and introducing themselves. and instead was made by "our all providing mother" and Medias (newspapers, blog articles, TV)
• Community never reach us for anything. Intro was a false start and they seemed not interested by us.
• Industry has no intrest in us because there's no big company that need bicycle framebuilders in France.

We don't need to go through a lot to say: that's a bold move to do a full training course in current situation.

the inside

However i'm still glad i made it. Bicycle framebuilding is something i wanna do as a life job. But i have low interest to work with SUPER HIGH END grade tubbing, i also have none interest to make bicycle 100% made of new material.

My whole project sit on the outer line of what i learned. And even if i had the idea of working for someone it's not really something people do. I've learned to work on serialized models with not serial-ready process. which is nice.

the flipside

I should do a sticker that say "i survived the first framebuilder training course, got depression". Joke aside, that's not the least thing i got; it increased my mistrust torward them and people in general. I didn't joined the club by the way.

So yeah. i know how to make a bicycle, work with Farr, Cobra and some Anvil fixtures and tools. I also know how to use FreeCAD a lot better.

Ride with the rockers (Work & Opinion topic)

terms & conditions

I give a lot on trust and general meaning of words. I always assume that we are all people with desires and hopes. I understand that some title jobs are heavier than others, i understand title job hierarchy. I cant stand: untrusty people, sneaky people, "say yes means no" and power abuse.

The problem in each of my jobs was communication. It's a general problem (not the cause of why i left). As someone that give a lot of credit to speak communication that has to be cleared of any misunderstanding as soon as possible.

how to lose faith

It's so easy to erase years long of trusting by doing a shitty thing and it takes few seconds to clear out misunderstanding. ALSO it takes less second to answer "yes" or "no" instead of a cloudy "maybe". Pulling a maybe in a close question is a hard one and should be carefully handed and argumented. Maybe but meaning "no but in x month that will be a yes" is better. or "yes for 3 days then no for a year and after that that will be a yes for 3 month then after i'dont have any views" is also better

Also it's ok to come with "No but i'll see about it" Anyway.

Halftime

So in a week i'll be jobless again that was fun last 6 month. i met cool people, did fun stuff. been hurted. i got a tattoo that say "J'ai essayé j'ai raté" (i tried i failed). and that's the proper recap of the last 6 month