Posting for my brother, who is trying to get back into steady full-time work.

He served 10 years in the Army and worked as a light-wheel mechanic, wrecker operator, and welder. He has extensive hands-on experience maintaining and repairing Humvees, 5-tons, wreckers, and other military vehicles and equipment. He is a very strong mechanic, learns unfamiliar equipment quickly, and is comfortable with physically demanding work.

His legal situation is the main thing holding him back. He is not a convicted felon; he received a suspended sentence and is currently on probation. As part of his probation, he is required to be on the sex offender registry. (went through a shitty divorce)

He lives in Gatesville but is willing to work anywhere in the Gatesville, Waco, Temple, Killeen, or surrounding Central Texas area. He is open to mechanic work, diesel/heavy equipment, welding, construction, industrial work, oilfield-related work, manufacturing, warehouse work, or pretty much anything where someone is willing to give him a chance.

He is available days, nights, weekends, overtime, and long shifts. His only consistent limitation is that he cannot work Mondays due to probation appointments and counseling. Outside of that, he is willing to work whatever schedule is needed.

He is sober, drug-free, dependable, and wants to work. Ideally, he would like to find something paying at least $25+/hr (Lower if it is in gatesville), especially given his mechanical background and experience, but the priority is finding a stable employer willing to look at his qualifications instead of immediately writing him off because of his legal situation.

If anyone knows of specific employers, shops, contractors, staffing agencies, or companies in Central Texas that have hired people in similar situations, I would really appreciate any leads.

Posting for my brother, who is trying to get back into steady full-time work.

He served 10 years in the Army and worked as a light-wheel mechanic, wrecker operator, and welder. He has extensive hands-on experience maintaining and repairing Humvees, 5-tons, wreckers, and other military vehicles and equipment. He is a very strong mechanic, learns unfamiliar equipment quickly, and is comfortable with physically demanding work.

His legal situation is the main thing holding him back. He is not a convicted felon; he received a suspended sentence and is currently on probation. As part of his probation, he is required to be on the sex offender registry. (went through a shitty divorce)

He lives in Gatesville but is willing to work anywhere in the Gatesville, Waco, Temple, Killeen, or surrounding Central Texas area. He is open to mechanic work, diesel/heavy equipment, welding, construction, industrial work, oilfield-related work, manufacturing, warehouse work, or pretty much anything where someone is willing to give him a chance.

He is available days, nights, weekends, overtime, and long shifts. His only consistent limitation is that he cannot work Mondays due to probation appointments and counseling. Outside of that, he is willing to work whatever schedule is needed.

He is sober, drug-free, dependable, and wants to work. Ideally, he would like to find something paying at least $25+/hr (Lower if it is in gatesville), especially given his mechanical background and experience, but the priority is finding a stable employer willing to look at his qualifications instead of immediately writing him off because of his legal situation.

If anyone knows of specific employers, shops, contractors, staffing agencies, or companies in Central Texas that have hired people in similar situations, I would really appreciate any leads.

10-year Army veteran and experienced mechanic looking for oilfield work in Texas.

My brother is a very good mechanic with 10 years in the Army. His military background includes work as a light-wheel mechanic, wrecker operator, and welder, with hands-on experience maintaining and repairing Humvees, 5-tons, and other general-purpose military vehicles and equipment.

He learns new equipment quickly, works hard, stays sober, does not use drugs, and is willing to work long hours, overtime, West Texas rotations, and stay in a man camp or company housing for extended periods. He is open to diesel, heavy equipment, fleet, field service, frac, pump, or other oilfield mechanic work.

The barrier is that he has a recent Texas felony sexual-assault case that resulted in deferred adjudication/probation. He has no other criminal history, has been compliant with everything required of him, and his supervision is willing to work with him regarding employment and extended work rotations.

Because TWIC may be an issue right now, we are mainly looking for land-based mechanic work that does not require TWIC.

He is not looking for sympathy or a handout. He needs a solid paycheck, wants to get out of debt, and is trying to get back on track.

If anyone owns a shop, supervises mechanics, or knows a company in Midland/Odessa, the Permian Basin, or elsewhere in Texas that would be willing to talk to him, please comment or DM me.

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I am shocked at how disorganized and chaotic my program is. We are using 4 different platforms for homework, we are getting conflicting information from instructors, and none of the instructors are communicating with eachother.

I need feedback from ABSN graduates from Pittsburgh University specifically, my entire cohort stayed late from a class just to discuss how to bring this up to our dean, so we are all reaching out to people we know, I get the lucky task of coming to reddit and putting the letter together.

I'm looking for feedback specifically from rotary-wing EMS helicopter pilots who are also licensed as a flight paramedic or flight nurse/RN. I'm about to start an accelerated BSN program and have 20+ years in EMS, including 5 years in critical care transport. My long-term goal is to earn my commercial helicopter ratings, fly HEMS, and eventually transition into CAMTS, safety, operations, executive leadership, or independent consulting. I'm in a unique position with significant financial independence, so I'm optimizing for long-term flexibility, travel, and career satisfaction rather than simply maximizing income. Is this a realistic path, and what would you do differently?

I'm looking for feedback specifically from rotary-wing EMS helicopter pilots who are also licensed as a flight paramedic or flight nurse/RN. I'm about to start an accelerated BSN program and have 20+ years in EMS, including 5 years in critical care transport. My long-term goal is to earn my commercial helicopter ratings, fly HEMS, and eventually transition into CAMTS, safety, operations, executive leadership, or independent consulting. I'm in a unique position with significant financial independence, so I'm optimizing for long-term flexibility, travel, and career satisfaction rather than simply maximizing income. Is this a realistic path, and what would you do differently?

Starting an accelerated BSN program in the fall. I have a Bachelors in Emergency medicine, 10 years as an army medic, and 10 years as a paramedic. Obviously don't be a know it all, and be open to learning and feedback. I want to get an idea of what to watch out for. Other than being a know it all or unteachable, what are some of the good and bad things you have run into with teaching this specific subset of your preceptees?

I had a small Enchanting alt setup during TWW with moderate success, but when Legion Remix launched I decided to fully commit to building a profession alt army for Midnight.

All of my alts are named with some variation of “Baad” — Baadhands, Baadfist, Baadword, etc. Currently there are 13 total. Once Legion Remix kicked off, I started expanding aggressively and using Roman numerals for easier tracking across the roster (Baadaaxxiil, Baadaxvi, and so on).

My main character, Baadkitty (Feral main), is a Highmountain Tauren Druid (Herbalism/Mining) that I’ve played since Vanilla, originally as a standard Tauren.

I see a lot of profession discussions in World of Warcraft focused on:

• “What profession makes the most gold?”
• “What is the best concentration craft?”
• “What’s the highest gold per hour?”

After building a large-scale alt profession network, I think people are asking the wrong question.

The real question is:

“How do you build a sustainable crafting infrastructure that scales without burning yourself out?”

This is not a:

• trade chat spam guide
• AH flipping guide
• cancel scanning guide
• “one perfect crafter” guide

This is a guide about industrializing professions.

Scale & Time Investment

Current setup:

• 69 crafting characters and 1 dual gatherer
• roughly 1 Moxie bag per profession per character per week ( 2 bags per toon)
• centralized auction handling on one character
• semi-daily maintenance routine

The Philosophy

My profession setup revolves around:

• Patron Orders
• Moxie generation
• Resourcefulness
• Warband logistics
• Branch-specialized crafters
• Centralized auction management
• Low-friction daily routines

Trade chat exists mostly for visibility and I am not spamming in it. I WANT people to recognize: “Yeah, Baad can craft that.”

But direct commissions are not my primary income.

The actual gold engine is:
Patron Orders → Moxie → Moxie Bags → R2 Material Sales

The most important thing I learned: Infrastructure creates profitability.

Most players look at individual crafts.

I look at:

• logistics
• reagent flow
• specialization coverage
• reduced downtime
• repeatable routines

My Profession Setup

Current setup:

• 1 Herbalism/Mining gatherer
• 4 Engineers
• 4 Skinners
• 10 Tailors
• 10 Blacksmiths
• 11 Jewelcrafters
• 10 Leatherworkers
• 10 Scribes
• 10 Alchemists

Every non-gatherer has Enchanting as their second profession.

I did not put all eggs in a single basket so that I would always have options.

Why Everyone Has Enchanting

Enchanting is the perfect backup profession.

Why?

• Easy material acquisition
• Low maintenance
• Always useful
• Cheap R1 materials
• Concentration almost always guarantees profitability somewhere

This means every character always has:

• a fallback profit option
• something useful to concentration craft
• access to a profession that scales well with leftovers and surplus mats

Primary Crafters

Each profession has 1–2 “Primary Crafters.”

These are the characters that:

• push KP progression
• scan public orders
• receive daily attention

My first Primary Crafter for every profession specializes into profession tools/equipment first.

This is extremely important because it means:

• I can craft my own profession gear
• I can rapidly onboard new alts
• profession equipment spikes do not hurt me
• I never rely on trade chat

Why So Many Alts?

Because profession specialization trees reward narrow optimization.

Instead of:

• one all powerful crafter

I built:

• many focused specialists

I am using Blacksmithing as the main example here, but this applies to almost every profession.

Blacksmithing:

• 1 profession gear crafter
• 1 short blades + weaponstones
• 1 long blades
• 1 maces
• 1 axes and polearms
• 2 alloy/bar specialists
• 1 wrists/hands/belts
• 1 feet/shoulders/helms
• 1 shields/legs/chest

Tree Architecture Matters

The important part:
I do NOT randomly split specs.

I follow tree architecture.

For example:
Hands/Wrists/Belts all share:

• General Armorsmithing
• Articulated Armor

So specializing into those together compounds value.

Going from gauntlets directly into shields makes no sense because:

• different branch
• different parent nodes
• wasted KP efficiency

This philosophy applies across ALL professions.

The Actual Specialization Strategy

The progression generally looks like this:

1. Pick a connected branch
2. Invest enough points to unlock deeper nodes
3. Max the PRIMARY crafting node first
4. Then max the supporting parent nodes
5. Expand sideways into related crafts
6. ONLY THEN move into:
   • general crafting skill
   • resourcefulness
   • Old Ways bonuses

Example:

• Armorsmithing (10 first)
• Articulated Armor (5 first)
• Gauntlets (Max it)
• Articulated Armor (Max it)
• Armorsmithing (Max it)
• Wrist or belt and max it then swap to the other and max it

This creates:

• efficient KP spending
• stronger specialization identity
• lower wasted points
• faster useful output

Resourcefulness Is My Default Stat

Almost every crafter is focused on:

• Resourcefulness

NOT:

• Inspiration gambling

Resourcefulness scales with volume.
Inspiration scales with jackpots.

My system is built around:

• volume
• sustainability
• repeated patron order completion
• maintaining reagent reserves

The exceptions:
Characters whose entire role revolves around multicraft value.

Examples:

• Alloy/bar crafters
• Alchemy
• Ink/cipher/milling specialists

Those are the only characters where multicraft becomes the priority stat.

The Warband Bank Is Everything

The warband bank is not “storage.”

It is:

• logistics
• warehousing
• distribution
• inventory management
• account-wide crafting infrastructure

Reagents automatically being pulled while crafting is HUGE.

That means I can:

• instantly complete patron orders
• avoid shopping constantly
• minimize downtime
• chain crafts rapidly

I also keep roughly a 1 million gold reserve specifically for restocking warband materials when necessary.

That reserve ensures I can recover inventory quickly even if I completely run out of stocked materials.

I keep some of the vendor reagents on the characters that use them: 1000 flux on my smiths, 1000 silverleaf thread and 1000 embroidery floss on my tailors, ect. Make sure to have one bag on "Ignore" for cleaup and deposits for this. I do this on my last bag to hold my hearthstone, and other stuff inluding these vendor reagents.

Daily Routine

Public Order Pass

A “public orders only” pass is fairly quick which I can do on a daily basis even remotely (Thank you google remote desktop). A full patron-order cycle across all characters obviously takes longer, but the entire point of this setup is reducing friction and mental overhead as much as possible.

1. Log into each profession’s Primary Crafter
2. Scan public/guild orders
3. Fulfill high-tip or profitable commissions
4. Move to next profession
5. I am not logging into every character for this, just the first one of the profession to scan for public orders

Patron Order Pass

1. Log into crafter
2. Go directly to crafting table
3. Complete patron orders
4. Collect mail/rewards
5. Open all bags/rewards
6. Deposit EVERYTHING into warband bank
7. Spend newly earned KP
8. Log into next character

I do NOT:

• organize inventories on every alt
• manage auctions on every character
• micromanage materials constantly

Everything goes into the bank.

Addons Matter More Than People Think

A huge part of making a large crafting army manageable is addons.

I may make a separate post later because there are already a massive number of guides for them and it can get overwhelming quickly.

My addons automate repetitive management tasks such as:

• depositing gold
• queueing patron orders
• consolidating crafting buttons
• creating shopping lists
• pulling excess materials from the warband bank
• inventory cleanup and organization

Examples:

Warband miser: Auto deposits all gold on my character into the warbank.

TSM: Creates shopping lists and moves items based on rules I set after pressing a button.

Auctionator: Quickly posting auctions with inventory

With the addon Craftsim one button with multiple clicks can:

• accept a patron order
• craft it with concentration
• complete the order turn-in

The goal is not to “play the game for me.”

The goal is removing unnecessary friction so I can move through dozens of characters quickly and efficiently.

One Character Handles ALL Auctions

This is probably the biggest quality-of-life improvement I ever made.

One character handles:

• auction purchases
• auction sales
• market tracking
• gold tracking
• inventory sorting
• material redistribution

My crafters are NOT bankers.

They are production units.

This massively reduces:

• mental overhead
• inventory clutter
• reposting frustration
• gold fragmentation

Patron Orders Are Better Than People Think

A lot of players ignore patron orders because:

• individual rewards look small
• some orders appear unprofitable

But if you maintain:

• large reagent reserves
• centralized materials
• efficient crafting flow

Then many patron orders become directly profitable BEFORE the Moxie rewards are even considered.

That is the hidden advantage.

Infrastructure creates profitability.

Moxie Is the Real Currency

Gold is just the final output.

Moxie is the actual engine.

Every alt exists to generate:

• more accessible orders
• more Moxie
• more weekly bag throughput

The best part:
Moxie bags produce R2 materials/items.

R2 sells dramatically better than R1.

With semi-consistent or daily logins, I average:

• roughly 1 bag per profession character per week

Scale that across a large alt network and it becomes extremely stable passive income.

Biggest Mistakes I Made

• Trying to manually manage inventories early on
• Not centralizing auctions immediately
• Understocking the warband bank
• Spreading KP across unrelated branches
• Chasing “prestige” crafts instead of infrastructure
• Trying to over-optimize every single crafter

At scale, consistency beats perfection.

This System Is Probably NOT For You If:

• You only play a few characters
• You hate repetitive routines
• You enjoy active flipping/cancel scanning
• You prefer prestige crafting gameplay
• You dislike inventory/logistics management

This system works because I enjoy building infrastructure.

Final Advice

Most profession guides focus on:

• maximum profits
• one-character optimization
• rare crafts
• market timing

But large-scale profession systems are really about:

• reducing friction
• reducing decision fatigue
• scaling horizontally
• creating routines
• building infrastructure

Most players build crafters.

I think the real goal is building a production network.

Once the infrastructure exists, every additional alt becomes less work, not more.

To give you an idea of the possibility, I decided to push myself hard and make 5 Million gold as fast as I could with only patron orders. It took me 12 days of a full patron order daily login. Between the intermittent public orders, and moxie bags, the gold was fast to make, especially if you are dedicated and have the time.

Happy to answer questions when I can. I hope some of this helped.

I have a family member (Mother in law) that is getting a pacemaker placed tomorrow. Do you have any nursing homes you would not place your family in around the Erie area? Working both 911 and IFT, I know that some are much better than others just like here in Pittsburgh. Just looking for advice on where to stay away from. Currently expected to be admitted for about 2 weeks in Sarah Reed.