'Why is there a girl here?': Female electrician from Utah shares the eye roll-inducing interactions she's had while working the trade

Reina, a woman from Utah shares her experience as a professional electrician on her social media. She attended trade school and immediately got to work, excited and eager. Though she emphasizes how she doesn't let the sexism that riddles the trade bother her, that doesn't mean she doesn't notice it. So recently she shared some things that she has encountered while on the job. 

Most of the time it's male co-workers who are either just completely shocked and in awe that there is a female electrician working with them. Or it's the worst of the bunch, and it's the ignorant sexist male co-worker who literally thinks that she can't possibly do her job simply because she is not a man. 

In another video, she shares some of her personal pros and cons of being an electrician. Pros: working outside, moving your body more, being able to eat what you want because you workout all day, learning a new skill. Cons: working in sever weather conditions, but mostly the sexism. 

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“[Sexism] that is something you are gonna have to deal with as a woman and it just is what it is. You have to know that going into it. You're not gonna change people,” she says. “I deal with it everyday, but it doesn't really matter. At the end of the day, the way you have to look at it is that the only people who really matter are your boss, your super, the people above you. They know your work ethic, they'll see your work ethic, and they'll know you're a good worker. So if you try hard do your best, and it doesn't really matter what other people say.” She adds that this is all what she's just come to terms with personally, she used to get offended every time, but she just realized it usually came from people that did no matter. “Even if you're lead, they're going to assume the man that's working is the one in charge,” she says. “So it's just something you have to deal with.”

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