Line Workers — The Rock Stars of the Utility Pole

You ever notice how you don’t think about line workers until your lights flicker and suddenly, you’re living like it’s 1843? One second you’re binge-watching Yellowstone for the fourth time, the next you’re sitting there with a half-melted Yankee Candle like Laura Ingalls Wilder trying to finish her TikTok. That’s when the line workers show up. These folks are basically Spider-Man in a hard hat, dangling from poles in a thunderstorm while the rest of us are crying because the microwave won’t turn on.

And let’s be honest, the job description sounds less like a career and more like a dare. “Hey, you wanna climb 40 feet in the air, strap yourself to a stick, and juggle enough voltage to light up Vegas? Oh, and it’s 2 a.m. and sleeting sideways. Coffee’s on you.” And line workers are like, “Yeah, sounds fun.” Meanwhile, I won’t even change a lightbulb without Googling “how not to electrocute yourself.”

These people are tough. They’re climbing poles in blizzards, wrestling cables the size of boa constrictors, and fixing transformers that hum like they’re auditioning for a death metal band. And they don’t just do it once in a while, they do it every time Mother Nature throws a tantrum. Ice storm? They’re out there. Windstorm? They’re out there. Squirrel chewed through a wire? They’re out there too, shaking their heads like, “Really, Gary the Squirrel? Again?”

And here’s the kicker: nobody ever thanks them. You flip a switch, the lights come back on, and you act like Thomas Edison just sent you a fruit basket from beyond the grave. Meanwhile, the lineworker’s still out there in a bucket truck, soaked to the bone, running on gas-station coffee and beef jerky, thinking, “Cool, glad Karen can reheat her latte.”

But that’s the thing, line workers don’t need the spotlight. They know they’re the rock stars of the utility world. They’re the Mick Jaggers of high voltage, the Bon Jovi’s of storm recovery. You ever seen a line worker climb a pole in a lightning storm? That’s not maintenance, that’s a pyrotechnics show with an electrical engineering degre

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So yeah, First Responders save lives, and they deserve all the praise. But line workers? They save civilization from the horrors of family game night. They don’t just turn the lights back on, they keep you from murdering each other over Monopoly. They’re GSD Built, baby.

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