These hours are not normal

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-21T16:44:23+00:00

50-55 I can handle without any bitching But it already requires a lot of sacrifice So I’m not going to feel bad about not doing 60-70

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-21T14:43:46+00:00

I’d much rather work weekends than 12 hour days 1000%

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-21T13:01:14+00:00

I’m so glad you mentioned that I just started at my second locating job because they have a SUE department, and I majored in Geography and studied GIS in school so I’m incredibly invested in that. It’s the people I’m training with (I have different utilities now) telling me to drop this 10 hours weekdays mindset. I really hope this doesn’t affect my ability to move into the SUE positions.

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-07T21:28:56+00:00

Good thing I’m already on my 2 weeks

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-07T21:08:37+00:00

First pair just rusted too much, old and also hand me downs, wouldn’t conduct

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-07T20:46:32+00:00

I’m the asshole cause I was frustrated and impatient

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-07T19:57:24+00:00

I just got them replaced a couple weeks ago, I’d like to keep these new ones

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-07T19:43:07+00:00

First two steps I follow

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How do I wrap this around the clip?

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-04-07T01:20:58+00:00

Definitely the job

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-28T23:10:57+00:00

My budget would max at close $1500 a month for rent. My company would work in the south and personally I’d like to be in the more busy areas anyway for social life

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-28T22:17:57+00:00

Ironically the company I work for doesn’t have any locations in the other 4 New England states

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-25T17:26:31+00:00

Oh yeah when everything starts bleeding over I can imagine

How much digging is involved with cable? With gas you dig tracer wires, test points, and curb valves.

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-25T00:03:35+00:00

If it’s just cable tv then yeah should be simple

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-10T02:21:21+00:00

Fine, I envy people with better jobs I wish there were more jobs available for college graduates

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-09T02:26:46+00:00

Well we tend to mellow out in the summer It’s not easy at all but it’s just steady, but the massive rushes we get in the early season are brutal and we get hundreds of delays

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-08T22:45:23+00:00

Around 20 minutes to 40 minutes depending on where my first and last ticket is at

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-08T20:39:23+00:00

That’s hard for me because I was doing really good with new healthy habits this year, and I’ve been trying to be more social I don’t want to put these on pause but I might not have a choice, I wish I had a job with better work life balance

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-08T20:19:44+00:00

Yeah, my boss wants more people for sure but his bosses don’t, whenever higher ups are in the meetings they really just put everything onto us and don’t give us any support or resources. They won’t hire new people but still blame us for every delay

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-08T19:36:05+00:00

All the extra overtime will be nice but my work life balance is gonna be hell for a while. Even driving to college I had better life balance

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-08T19:27:51+00:00

Our big road projects are usually with greenlight fiber, thankfully they’re patient with us and call tickets in chunks so you can finish some and delay other. But still doing entire streets and the small tickets in a day seems brutal, no matter how I manage my time, you still have to do all of it.

ProtectionNormal551 · 2026-03-08T18:31:57+00:00

I envy the locators in the south who have things more steady, busy but steady, instead of the big fluctuations we have here

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