A retired lineman's comment changed how I see my work

Last week I was swapping a drop on a 40 year old pole in Toledo and an old timer who was watching said, "You're not just moving signal, you're moving their whole living room." He was talking about the grandma who gets her soaps and the kid doing homework, and it made me slow down with my splices. Anyone else ever get a reality check like that from a stranger on a job?

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ninaw885d ago

But here's what gets me about that old timer's line, did he actually say anything about how you're supposed to carry that weight every single day? Because that's the part nobody talks about. You can have that lightbulb moment where you slow down on your splices for a week, but then you're on your sixtieth pole of the month in the rain and it's easy to forget the grandma again. So my real question is what do you actually do to keep that feeling from wearing off? Do you say something to yourself before you climb, or picture a specific house, or does it just fade like it does for most guys?

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