So, I worked with him a lot from about ages 10 to 12 on weekends or during summer vacations through age 18 and I even worked on what was called a 4-4 plan in High School my junior year which was designed for apprenticing tradesmen at that time. So, even though I also went to college and studied computer programming and computer operations I tend to know a lot about everything electrical because my father was an Electrical Contractor and his hero was Nicola Tesla who invented the Alternating current, fluorescent lighting and many other amazing things we use today all the time worldwide.
Because of this I have far more knowledge about electrical things in general than the average person. I also was shocked mostly by 110 volts thousands of times between the ages of 10 and 22 years of age. At one point I also worked as an electrician in Los Angeles after college in 1969 also before I returned to college again in 1970 or 1971 to try to become a psychologist at that time before I got married and had my first child in 1974.
Later note:
The main reason that one gets shocked a lot and hopefully only 110 volts is that often you are working someplace where they need the circuits on when you are working on them. So, this is why you often get shocked while working (HOT) on a live circuit. When you are working with electricity at these voltages of 110, 220, 440 or 480 you must not wear anything metal. For example, if you wear a wedding ring the shock could literally burn your whole wedding finger off. and a gold necklace like a Saint Christopher medal or other gold or silver chain could also be fatal if you are working as an electrician. Also, you don't want to be on an aluminum ladder and should only be on a fiberglass or wooden ladder while working with electricity because that could be fatal too. Though a fiberglass ladder has metal parts the fiberglass won't conduct electricity through the fiberglass to the metal parts so you are usually safe.
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