Construction Tales: Volume I: A Woman's Journey to Become an Electrician
This second #ConstructionTales blog covers my podcast #VerballyDisastrous topics relating my female NY construction thoughts and associated topics.
Still Shot of Video Footage and Book Placement of 2015 Book Expo America in New York City! May 27-29, 2015
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Hello everyone!
I wanted to show you real quick the still shot of the video that was playing my book trailer on a look with other books for Book Expo America being held at the Javits Center in New York City last week!
https://youtu.be/U4rEOnGPU2I
I am thinking about putting it in the San Francisco Book fair going down this month in June. I am hoping to get into a few more ventures this year. I shall see how it goes. EDIT: The above promo video was showcased with other authors at the San Francisco Book fair.
The book is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes. I have to get the audio version ready since it needs a final edit. EDIT: The audio version is now available on #Audible
I thank you for reading my blog as usual!
I am almost done reading Hard Hatted Women. It is a collection of stories of women in different male-dominated trades from the 1980's. I plan to finish reading and speak about it. EDIT: I previously released a post on my book review of Hard Hatted Women.
Thanks for stopping by and reading!
Cheers!
Leslie M. Jasper
My video was displayed on a loop on the tv screen at Book Expo America on May 27-29, 2015
Originally Posted: Sunday, January 6, 2013 WORKING WITH A CHAUVENIST PIG (Chapter Clip) I will never forget my first day meeting Chester on a job in White Plains. He shook my hand and commented on my ‘manly’ handshake. Chester then explained, in a long, dragged out theatrical manner, to me that there were two things that just don’t happen. There is no crying in baseball and there are no women in construction. As soon as I heard this come out of his mouth, I thought to myself that this is going to be a very tough job to work on. Imagine a guy who is very tall with a big basketball for a belly that he rubs often. Chester has a giant head of curly salt and pepper hair with an overgrown mustache and a five o’clock shadow. Chester usually wore a cheap netted baseball hat, worn out solid color t-shirts, ragged Dockers pleated knit pants, and moccasins. He does look like an odd character ...
Originally Posted: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 The Purpose of the Book I am sure there are people who are curious as to the reason for my decision to write my first book. I believe that my non-traditional occupation is unique and of interest to people. Due to the unique nature of my work, there are not many woman telling the story. Therefore, I must get the word out what it like to work with a sea of men all day. I must say that this is the best part of working in construction; daily eye candy. I also wanted to tell my story so others may understand what life is like for a woman construction worker. My journey of becoming an electrician was a tight balance of maintaining my focus while constantly learning on my toes. In order to gain any form of respect, I knew I must pay attention and learn everything possible and perform each task to my absolute best ability. There is no doubt that my work holds my ...
Construction Tales: Volume I: A Woman's Journey to Become an Electrician The Dynamics Between The General Contractor and Different Trades!! hi everyone! I am pitching in and helping with about 3 projects at the moment. One job is in Queens and the other two jobs are in Manhattan. One job has a growing troubled relationship between the trades and the general contractor on the job. At first, I thought it was just our shop that was at odds. Now I see it is a growing distain for the GC amongst all of the trades on the job. They are trying to say that we are holding up progress. Meanwhile, the general contractor should be coordinating work with the trades. We can't work in the same space as the floor guy when he is gluing his floor down. Oftentimes, our field guys are coordinating with the floor guy. It ha...
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