My brother is almost five years younger than I am, and he couldn’t believe I was going to be an HVAC technician.
It was odd that a woman became an HVAC technician, but I didn’t think I would become a spectacle to the family. My brother laughed at me and thought I was some kind of freak. I told him he was a freak, which made me less grown up than my fifteen-year-old brother. I was getting ready to go out last week, and he was the first one to open the door when my date showed up. My brother laughed and asked him if he knew he was going out with an HVAC technician. My date turned around and told my brother it wasn’t nice to laugh at the HVAC technician. My brother grimaced and walked away. When we got out of the house, he asked me why I hadn’t told him I was an HVAC technician? I told him that most men didn’t want a woman who did a man’s job. They thought it took away from your femininity and were afraid you would try to be the man in the relationship. I was a strong woman in every way, but I still enjoyed being a woman. He told me his mother was an HVAC technician and he would put her up against any other woman, and she would win in looks and womanliness. He was glad I chose a career that made me happy, and not because it was a job that should be for a woman.
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