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.

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    My most used tool is a cordless impact driver. With the right bits it is so useful. Cuts many repair times down to a percentage of their non impact driver repair time. I have bits for any screws and also bits to adapt sockets.

    The one I picked up is less than $50 at Walmart with the bits. Super useful tool to have around. I throw it in my backseat and it’s always there when I need it.

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    6 days ago

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    This bad boy right here.

    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!

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    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.

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    I’m a machinist, so I use a huge variety of tools (setting fixturing, looking at prints and diagrams, fine measurements and gauges, CAD and CAM software, manual machine tools, etc.) The most important? Eye protection. I have excellent vision and would never jeopordize it to whatever extent possible and reasonable. I use safety glasses so often now for scenarios even outside of work, I forget to take them off when eating until halfway through a meal. Maybe I should be worried about the broccoli, though. You can never be too careful.