lineman 3rd post

Source of picture (NBC 4 news)

    All the time there are power outages no matter where you are for any range of reasons from a tree falling on a wire or a fire at an electrical station all of which will demand lineman. Apart from all the other things that makes this not your typical job a lot of the time you are required to travel to sites especially just starting out in a apprenticeship program, for instance according to NBC 4 news

   AEP Ohio is sending 14 line workers to Puerto Rico on Saturday to assist with power restoration efforts. The team will join four storm restoration experts with AEP Ohio, who have been on the ground since early January. Line workers from AEP Ohio’s sister companies will also join the mission.

    You may be told to travel out of state to go work on a site with a range of many other workers for months at a time sometimes, My cousin who is a lineman said that once you finish your apprenticeship then you could start settling down and you can start picking where you want to go for work. Most people that try and get a job as a lineman don't want to travel and end up wasting a lot of time trying to get a job around them and sometimes this takes years, so I'd say suck it up and take the three years you need to take to become a journeyman and travel to where they need you to go. My cousin has a truck and a camper and he's using that at the moment to get to the sites and he just bought a house for his wife and kids because he's just about a journeyman. Don't let this slip you up from becoming a lineman from what I've learned this is a fun profession with helicopters being used to pick tools up and bring them to the top of a tower or hanging from a ladder attached to a helicopter (video is coming next post). Plus the pay is pretty damn good of course.