I’d say high rise iron workers seem the coolest. Think back to that black and white picture everyone has seen of the two guys sitting on a beam hundreds of feet up eating lunch.

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Hard to beat those pictures

    Id give honorable mention to linemen. Casually handling thousands of volts from the top of a bucket truck while traffic whizzes past is pretty badass. Plus responding to emergencies like hurricanes, tornadoes etc. Its also usually a union job.

    Im just a wireman myself, I like to keep my shocks under 277V

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      We had a lineman up here get attacked by a cougar. Fought off the cat with a 4-inch pocketknife, got himself out of the bush and to a highway before getting a ride to the hospital.

      Absolute badass.

    • njordomir@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 days ago

      I knew someone who did this kind of work. They don’t wait until the weather improves. They climb poles in 70mph winds with sideways blowing hail and lightning if that’s what needs to happen. That’s crazy hardcore!

      • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Years ago I ran a pub quiz and one of the categories was “Name the song from this description of the lyrics”:

        A low-level government employee abuses his access to national infrastructure to secretly spy on a woman he is obsessed with. He acknowledges that he has a unhealthy obsession and that he really should back off, but quickly managed to convince himself to carry on, assuring the audience that he is still spying on her.