#position statements

Nothing I post/will post/have posted in the past blah blah blah blah blah concerning employment or views of views of views…. this is for me. For Nicole at her core for learning and growing and being equipping myself with tools” in my “toolbox” to do my job correctly. I want to be passionate, over the top, in love with what I do because it’s the only way to feel like you’re on vacation every day. So for my records and my networking and my quest to be the best I can be each day for my customers, here I am….

Asking humbly for help.

From anyone. About anything you can give me advice/link/procedures/guidebooks/etc etc etc…. A shout out into the void, probably, but here I am hoping that somewhere someone has the same glimmer of a passion and can help me dive into this.

Background: parents include a body man and a hardcore insanely smart manager mother, grew up in a shop (or bouncing around them rather), even into adulthood stumbling into the estimator path. I’ve been through (mental health wise…) a lot… blah blah blah, got some help, yada yada….great cool I’m on meds now and feel like I’ve missed 10 years of my life to not having a hobby/passion/something to throw myself into for mental exercise. I’d love to use my career as a basis of learning, hoping it will bring me more joy and success! I’ve been in the shop for 6 years, 2 as a receptionist, 2 at home as a reinspector third party, and 2 as a shop estimator where I’ve thrived the most. Just recently, a light clicked when I got intrigued with a “how does that work though…….?” And somehow I haven’t stopped asking questions.

So if anyone has magazine articles, oem procedures/position statements, insurance guidelines (oooooooh, and if you’re a baddie who has loopholes to *help* customers (((and again THIS IS ME PERSONALLY AS A HUMAN NOT AFFILIATED ANYWHERE LOL))), advice for a young gun who wants to go far, someone to bitch to about shop life because being a woman in this industry is harrrrrrrrrrrrrrd, lemme know. I need good friends, I would adore a mentor, and I’m a pretty inquisitive person to bounce ideas off of.

Nice to meet y’all!

My gender is not open for debate, negotiation, discussion or outside opinions. If you do not live in this skin, you don't get to have a say in my gender identity, period, and the ONLY thing your negative opinion can do is alienate me.

If I share with you the name I am considering changing my name to, feel honored that I trusted you with it, and don't tell me what you think of it, I don't care if you don't like it, but if you say something negative I'll think less of you for it.

My pronouns are they/them. I will start correcting people on this if they don't correct themselves.

My sister calls me sibling. My kids still call me Mom*. I refer to myself as my husband's spouse. I'm still my niece's aunt*. I do not use woman, girl, she, her, wife or sister much anymore.

I DO understand that it takes time to adapt to change and that no one will be 100% on this stuff immediately, and if you slip I'm not going to be mad, but if you don't even try, I probably won't trust you very much.

This is not new. I've been struggling with the gender binary since childhood, I simply didn't have the language to describe myself and my experience until the past few years. I came out as nonbinary about 3 years ago, give or take.

Recently IHQ in London released an updated Position Statement on Alcohol:

“The Salvation Army encourages an alcohol-free lifestyle as a way of enhancing the well-being and health of all people. As a witness to this, Salvation Army soldiers choose to live an alcohol-free life.

The Salvation Army recognizes the harm alcohol causes in individuals, families and communities. It advocates for reducing…