My family has been working in Electrical technology since the early 1900s if not before

Many of the men in my father's family, including myself, my father, my grandfather, my son and my uncle at one point or another have worked in Electrical fields. For example, my father, my uncle (his oldest brother) and my grandfather were all Electrical Contractors planning and drawing up plans to electrically wire houses by contract from the early 1900s (my grandfather) to my uncle and Dad (the 1930s until the late 1970s) and the same basically for my uncle.

So, I was raised with the religious heros of Jesus and Saint Germain and the technological heros of Nicola Tesla, Einstein and Thomas Edison. This was just how my life went from childhood on. From age 12 to 17 I worked in the the Greater Los Angeles area summers mostly with my father in his business and then again working for another company my father worked for before he moved to San Diego to work with the Union there until he retired on building the Encina power plant in Carlsbad.

So, learning about line loads and getting shocked with 110 every day I worked and sometimes 220 or 440 (surviving 440 or 480 is kind of iffy) (I was once blinded temporarily by my screwdriver burning in half in a mistake I made while working on KCET the tv station that is PBS in Los Angeles when I was likely 14 or 15. So, I couldn't see anything but a ball of blue fire from when my screwdriver exploded because we had to work "Hot" because the station was broadcasting while I was working.

So, my father took me over to some stairs and sat me down while I wondered whether I was going to be able to see again. My eyes hurt for several days from the burn and my skin on my face was covered with little pieces of melted metal from my screwdriver becoming an arc welder for a few moments.

Then when I was 5 my father fell about 30 feet from a ladder and broke his wrist and was out of work for about 6 weeks then. When you work high on a ladder you have to be very focused much more than people in other trades. So, I got good at this even though I had one really bad fall when I was about 18 and was trying to wire above a T bar ceiling in a new Cleaners. I was on an aluminum ladder (which one should never do as an electrician) (or wear any metals or necklaces made of metal either because of the danger of electrocution or burning your fingers off from any rings you wear (including wedding rings). My fall took out a 9 foot section of T-Bars and false ceiling and landed me in a pile of lumber which knocked the breath out of me. The men laughed as I tried to get my lungs to work again without dying because when you fall sometimes this hard you cannot breathe for awhile. So, struggling for breath is necessary to stay alive.

So, by the time I was 18 or 20 years of age I had gotten used to climbing under houses with 12 to 18 inches of clearance with black widows and cat poop and dog poop and raccoon poop under there to wire up houses. IN fact, the first job I ever worked with my father was like this because I was 12 and only 5 foot 2 (before my growth spurt which shot me up to 5 foot 10 within one year so I was 5 foot 10 by age 13) of crawling with barely enough room under a house and only moving by moving my feet to push myself there was so little room. However, by being able to do this I saved my Dad likely three days of work boring holes in walls and floors and attics and fishing wires by doing this work. So, likely I saved him 500 to 1000 dollars by being able to do this for him because no one else was small enough to fit under the house for this kind of work pulling electrical cables under the house to wire it in a remodel.

Thinking back now as an adult though I realize if I had gotten stuck under there they would have had to cut a hole in the floor of the house to get me out of there.

But, this was more how people thought still around 1960 then.

Working on a high ladder of about 30 feet high you have to crook your left arm through the ladder(or right arm if you are left handed) to keep from falling off the ladder while you use both hands to install EMT pipe or Romex or whatever you are installing there at that altitude (usually in factories or warehouses).

If you don't learn how to crook your arm through the ladder at this altitude you likely are going to just fall at some point. And also, at this altitude often you are on an extension ladder just leaned up against a wall. So, you need to think about not leaning out which could easily be fatal while doing this. So, unless you are very very physically aware of what you are doing and coordinated you really have no business doing any of this unless you want to be dead or maimed for life.

There are some tricks like tying off the top of your ladder to something so in case you shift your weight or something happens you don't fall and die or get severely injured.

So, all the electrical trades involving construction can be dangerous at times. For example, my father and his foreman were using a mechanized wire puller to pull wires from one side of a building to another. However, they didn't have walkie talkies or cell phones because this was during the 1970s.

So, his foreman got some of his fingers pulled off because he was feeding the wire and his leather glove got caught into the orifice of the pipe the wires were being pulled through.

Later, on another day this foreman and two of the other guys dad was working with went up high on a bucket connected to a high crane there at the Encina Power plant in Carlsbad that was being built at that time so they were over 100 feet high. Dad was supposed to go to but there wasn't enough room so he watched as all the men he worked with died when  a guide wire to the crane broke and the men were impaled on 3 inch wide re bars facing up on the ground ready for cement from about 100 feet up.

So, luck saved my Dad even though at the time he felt sort of gypped by not getting to do the ride which was fatal to the rest of his crew.

So, because of things like this I chose not to keep this as my main trade because I didn't want to be injured or die doing this too. Also, I wanted to be able to play piano, Organ and keyboards and while I was doing this kind of work my fingers were always swollen up with wire cuts from installing wires and metal boxes. I didn't use gloves partly because of what happened to his foreman. Though you fingers get all cut up doing this work if you wear gloves you are actually more likely to make mistakes and lose fingers while doing this kind of work.

So, when I went to college I studied computers and programming because this also was a field involving Electricity which was in the blood of the men of my family. Then my son at first became a computer tech and eventually finished his college degree and is now a teacher.

So, throughout all of the 20 th century and part of the 21st century someone in my family was involved in trades or professions having to do with installing or working on or building something electrical, or programming computers.

Note: IN regard to gloves you might get away with medical rubber or latex gloves that can easily rip or pull off in different situations. This might protect your hands from some injuries. But, the problem with this is your hands are going to sweat a lot and you could get rashes if you wear these too long in any given working situation. So, you would be protected from your gloves being sucked into orifices when you are the feeder when wire is being pulled into EMT aluminum conduits of various sizes. Also, a good idea would be to open a call on two smartphones or cell phones so you can yell for the other person to stop pulling if something goes wrong.