On becoming an electrician

Rehabbed an existing dormitory for the University of South Carolina. Called Patterson Hall. Specs called for the existing switch gear to be converted from existing vented bus to underground conduit. When it came time to bid the job, I added the option to replace the board entirely and give them a deduction of , I think 40-50 grand (this was in 2011) They said nope, it was old as fuck and the head of their electrical department was in love with it. Sadly that 100% turned out to be true. Anyhow I hired a local company to make a metal structure to cover the new main service conduits and a few other provisions. Sadly looking at my pictures, I didn't take as good of ones as I would have liked. Black part is the new metal box. This job really sucked. Columbia/USC is HOT as fuck. I called Columbia SC 'hell on earth'. The town is in a bowl and the air quality was so bad my brother had asthma like problems the entire project.

Yeah bro sometimes you have to advocate for your own safety.

When I was green (as grass) I'm in one of those lifts like in your picture. Putting up lights under a 2 story high covered walkway between two buildings. The ground was poured concrete on a slope so there was zero level ground. Totally the wrong lift for the job but I'm too new to even know. My roommate / teacher tells me to come down so I do. I ask what's up , then he tells me I was on 2 wheels ready to tip over. This was before the current safety minded ways we have now.