14 Linemen Reveal How Much They Make Each Year
1. In CA, it’s not that hard to make 300k.
Depending on how you manage your OT, it can be a ton of effort or minimal effort.
For me, it’s easy as pie to make 260-300k. I’m not beating my body up. I choose when I work so that helps tremendously.
If you stay on top of your OT, you can pick and choose when to work. We use an evergreen to determine who gets first dibs at overtime.
Also, all OT is double time. It just makes it that much easier.
At SCE, you will make 200k without even trying. I was hitting 250-265 and hardly worked weekends. Just picking up hours during the week here and there.
My gig is even better now that I’m transmission, 300k with minimal wear and tear.
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Confessions of a Golden Gate Bridge Jumper
They tell you that you die the moment you hit the water. They talk about surface tension, about water acting like concrete at seventy miles per hour. But they are wrong. You don’t die when you hit the water. You die months before, piece by piece.
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What Should You Do If You Gets Stabbed In The Throat
I assume you mean in one of the arteries or veins, since other places in the throat wouldn’t cause the situation you’re asking about.
Not that it matters, because the first aid is the same. Pressure, pressure, pressure. First and always, apply pressure to slow bleeding.
If it doesn’t hurt like a motherfucker, you aren’t using enough pressure. Seriously.
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Your Goals Are Too Damn Vague
Most people move through life with a vague sense that things should be better. They want to be healthier, happier, more productive, more “on top of things.” But instead of making real changes, they get trapped in a haze of soft intentions—an ambient hum of shoulds and maybes and someday. It feels like momentum because you’re thinking about improvement. It’s not. It’s mental exhaust.
The Dumping Grounds
Think You’d Never Fall for a Scam? Here’s Why You’re Wrong
You’re smart. You’re cautious. You’ve seen all the news stories about scams, and you’ve probably even rolled your eyes at how people could possibly fall for such obvious tricks. Maybe you’ve even thought, “That would never happen to me.”
But here’s the truth: Scammers are professionals. And they know how to trick even the savviest among us.
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Confessions From Former Gifted Kids
1. I was labeled gifted and talented in school way back. Most adults would tell me that I am very gifted and intelligent. I was given fine opportunities in art, music and business. I thought that I could do anything very quickly and efficiently. I also have ADHD and ASD.
I got into a pretty good university at 20 years old. During the second year I started falling behind. I was quite heavily bullied in school so I started to get socially anxious. I ultimately dropped out after 4 years. I started smoking weed to my anxiety and depression not understanding that it made everything worse.
Living With Perfect Recall: A Gift, A Burden, and Everything Between
I do not remember a time before remembering.
My earliest memory is not a moment or a place, but a page. I was five, sounding out the words in Goodnight Moon, and as soon as I reached the end, the pages were simply there. Not as images exactly, but as something I could turn over in my mind with the same clarity as turning the physical page. It did not feel special. It felt like the way reading was supposed to feel.
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24 People Reveal the Subtle Sign That Someone Is Very Intelligent
1. When they take the time to filter through any possible misunderstandings in an argument by asking questions to help them better understand the idea that’s being presented, instead of immediately assuming their first interpretation of the argument is the correct one. Something that’s always bugged me is when my argument gets misunderstood and then attacked from angles where supposed “errors” exist, when those errors rose out of the listener’s own misinterpretation.
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