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This got me interested into what it takes to become lineman. For Canada, it's: - extended driver's license requirements - some high school requirements (gradua
by paavoova 8y ago
This got me interested into what it takes to become lineman. For Canada, it's:
- extended driver's license requirements
- some high school requirements (graduate, math and sciences)
- physically fit year-round
- pre-apprenticeship program
- 3 year apprenticeship program, $30 pay
- standard trade rate is $40
You probably get good benefits and disability securities, and overtime pay. But it means working in dangerous, frequently laborious, conditions, working away from home all over the province/country, and working frequent overtime. Makes me scratch my head when the people holding the infrastructure together get compensated so little.
- jacquesm 8y ago> Makes me scratch my head when the people holding the infrastructure together get compensated so little. Because they are very far away from where value is captured. That's a seriously annoying part of the way capitalism as we know it works: you only get paid a substantial fraction of the value created if you are near the point of value capture. That's why sales people tend to earn well.