Disappointment Abounds · 3:46pm Feb 26th, 2014
I didn't get the job I applied for at the Denver Museum of Natural History. I've volunteered there for two years straight, with more hours than the average volunteer logs in three, and I still didn't get the job. Maybe one of my other applications will go through, but for now I'm exploring a new job option with a local contractor. I'd basically be doing the same job I'm doing now, just for a little more money and more reasonable hours. Here's hoping I get it and hoping that the first damage to a utility line on my watch yesterday doesn't count against me.
It was minor. A guy drilling holes for fence posts hit an electrical service to a house that I thought I marked properly. He dug within two feet of the line though, which is a no-no. In trying to determine what kind of line it is, I accidentally got shocked. Fortunately I wasn't grounded or that could have ended badly.
Still, definitely not what I thought I'd be doing after college. But then that's everybody's story nowadays, isn't it?
If you were grounded perhaps they'd give you a job at the museum.
You know, as an exhibit.
Please don't die. And for Pete's sake, whoever he is, don't touch cut cables. And what, dude can't see where the meter is on the house? The fool. Fence posts ain't that important as to risk dying. We never ever drill close the the locate lines. I gotta sit on a metal machine, shoving a metal auger down in there. Jeez, I'm getting mad just thinking about this. Kinda wanna smack that dude.
Please don't die.
Too many top-50 authors are MIA
Huh. Good that you didn't harmed yourself.
At least you do something :P I have no idea what to do...nothing makes me happy anymore or even give me "neutral" feeling. Eh...I should get back to acting as soon as I ended school before going to college. But at this point it wouldn't be even payed thing..
1875634 Woah
>>> Still, definitely not what I thought I'd be doing after college. But then that's everybody's story nowadays, isn't it?
More than you know, man. More than you know.
Ouch. Sorry to hear that. Hope you're good.
I hear that, bud. feels like ya should be doing better than ya are, doesn't it?
I know them feels.
Dude, you be careful with dem wires!
Dude, be VERY careful! And sorry you didn't get the job, either.
I know that feel. Well, probably most all of us do. *Hugs*
they say that good things come to those who wait, but that doesnt mean you stand still either, just go through it and an take the opportunity when it comes
1875631 Yeah, I have no idea why he decided he'd drill within two feet of the line when I TOLD HIM, repeatedly, that there's a two foot margin of error for a reason: We can't detect the lines themselves, just their magnetic fields. And I was touching the cut cable with bare hands because he was under the impression it was a CATV cable, not a live electrical wire. So just don't hire this guy to dig any fence post holes for you...
1875634 I'm not going to die any sooner than I can help it.
1877418 Up here we use a 3 foot margin of error. And I've seen em lay the wires and gas lines. They zig zag back and forth across the trench, then lay the detection wire straight down the middle. And I am a fence post digger. Safety is our number one concern. And the fact that when you nail a line you're bound to lose like 5 hours of time waiting for whoever's in charge of the line to come and fix it. We've been going for 6 years now and in that time we have hit only one electrical wire and that was because "Oh, we don't locate past the meter." Well thanks asshat, fence is in the backyard! Thanks for nearly killing two of my colleagues! I'll tell their widows that you don't locate past the meter so it's ok! We do hit quite a few cable television lines, but that's because cable company here just rubber stamps "ok to dig" on all the paper work and likes to play the odds.
Could be worse. One of my former co-workers condemned and demolished the wrong house.