I don’t just mean a wrench, unless thats it for you. I mean any tool you regularly use for work that you consider your most important. If you’re a software person name whatever digital tool you guys use. Whatever the career everyone uses tools I dont care if they are digital, verbal, physical or psychological. For me its honestly probably a flashlight, before I use any tools I’m always investigating with my flashlight or using a laser to trace lines.
Locksmith here, my most used and most important tool is a pen because if you can’t write up the invoice you don’t make any money.
It’s a bucket trowel, essentially a brick/block trowel that’s been cut down on an angle to get the last bits out of the bucket.
It’s literally my most used tool. I use it to mix, to lay out mortar for fixing stone, to skim coat the backs of tiles and veneer stone, levering stones up slightly to put more mortar in the bed, scratching my ass/back/legs, and I even occasionally cut myself on it accidentally!
Smartphone as an answer would be cheating?
IntelliJ IDEA
It’s an IDE, a highly featureful code editor.
A lot of programmers like to use more basic text editors and pile on plugins. I feel bad for them when they share some new plugin they’re excited about and it’s a feature that’s been in IntelliJ forever and they had to put extra work in to get it. And so many other users of that editor don’t even know what’s possible.
I feel naked without my Leatherman multi tool.
12 volt drill. I have other drills I use at work- 20v hammer drill, impact driver, SDS MAX monster, but the 12v gets used much more than any of those.
Sublime.
A spudger, aka nylon probe tool aka “black stick”. I have them in drawers and toolboxes all over the place. Useful for working tiny plugs out of electronics and pressing, poking and scraping at things.
Give me ssh, vi, bash and Linux kernel and I can get work done.
Terminal on Linux for work. Bash is such a fun thing :)
A hammer. When you get down to it, every tool is a hammer
Every tool can be a hammer, but a hammer can’t be every tool. Makes a hammer actually kind of a useless tool tbh.
Until you hammer the nonhammer and it breaks, becoming a useless tool.
Spoon, I am currently unemployed and I love to eat so I carry a spoon wherever I go just in case I might eat something.
Also melting injectable drugs
reminds me of that scene in friends where rachel and chandler ate cake from the floor, joey joined and said “allright what are we having”, then took a fork out of his pocket
Also this from Thundermans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJcQq5jhRqk
Skip to 2:30 “Always be reads for dessert” pulls out a spoon
The spoon is without doubt the most exquisite nutrient delivery system.
Thats reasonable.
Communication skills (aka bullshittery) I’m a finish carpenter and project manager so its my job to figure out what my boss thinks the client wants, what the client actually wants, what the fuck the architect is talking about, whatever the interior designer thinks they do, and translate it into usable language to get my carpenters to build it and make everyone think it was their idea that was the best.
My brian.
My brian.
Any specific Brian or just the one closest to you?
so much for not trying
I AM BRIAN!
THE BRIAN
NAMED ITSELF
THE BRIAN
(and he would have gotten away with it, too,
if it hadn’t it been for you meddling kids)
My glasses, for sure. Next would be my bike, as I use it to get around everywhere. Third most important is probably my keyboard at work, or a pencil.
God damn I didn’t even consider glasses
