my job i had before the factory job i have now (frito lay) was road construction done it for 8 years i seen alot of operators and the women honestly are usually alot smoother especially when just starting to learn, but any new hand can be scary, i was cutting a beam under a bridge with a torch standing in a excavator bucket, the dudes pager went off and jerked a handle cause it startled him, suppose to have been some pro from a local gravel pit, scared the sh!!!t outa me