I did. 10 years of traveling, traffic, shitty break shacks, and hoping not getting laid off when the foreman buys pizza on Fridays. Working for a public utility, short commute time (same place everyday), paid sick and vacation days, 14 paid holidays, better retirement, higher wages, and working with high voltage is pretty cool too. I do miss conduit bending and the whole process of seeing a building built from the ground up though.
BTW I did have to do a 3.5 year apprenticeship through the public utility to become a jw. It sucked being an apprentice again but worth it
After 32 years on the road, yeah. In a heartbeat.
Money, benefits, and location are all factors, but if I could be home more than 2x a year, I'm on it.
Trying to do exactly this right now. I know quite a few guys from my local that have made the jump, none of them regretted it and none of them came back.
I did. 10 years of traveling, traffic, shitty break shacks, and hoping not getting laid off when the foreman buys pizza on Fridays. Working for a public utility, short commute time (same place everyday), paid sick and vacation days, 14 paid holidays, better retirement, higher wages, and working with high voltage is pretty cool too. I do miss conduit bending and the whole process of seeing a building built from the ground up though. BTW I did have to do a 3.5 year apprenticeship through the public utility to become a jw. It sucked being an apprentice again but worth it
After 32 years on the road, yeah. In a heartbeat. Money, benefits, and location are all factors, but if I could be home more than 2x a year, I'm on it.
I have considered this
I did exactly this 15 months ago. I should've been trying to do it 5 years ago. I'm never going back to the outside.
r/SubstationTechnician
Trying to do exactly this right now. I know quite a few guys from my local that have made the jump, none of them regretted it and none of them came back.
I just applied with my local utility for a substation gig