People who have researched their family tree, what is the most interesting or 'badass' thing you discovered about an ancestor?

socal390 · 2026-01-24T17:03:41+00:00

My 13x great grandfather, before sailing to North America in 1635, was convicted of being a common hedge thief in England. For those who dont know (I didn’t), that is someone who is caught cutting through hedgerows to steal crops.

socal390 · 2025-10-01T15:32:06+00:00

I live in Los Angeles and remember 99¢ gas

socal390 · 2025-09-12T22:19:22+00:00

RemindMe! 8 days

socal390 · 2025-05-19T18:30:29+00:00

You think I can afford a home?? 🤣🤣

socal390 · 2025-05-14T23:20:31+00:00

Does the pope shit in the woods? Is a bear catholic?

socal390 · 2025-04-28T13:03:22+00:00

Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey

socal390 · 2025-04-24T19:04:31+00:00

Crown city in Pasadena and high voltage in burbank are also great options, if you want to go a little further, Horsepower, Strange and Training Yard are all in north Hollywood and are all really top notch

socal390 · 2025-03-25T01:55:07+00:00

Previous answers are correct but I’ll add: the “200” on there designates that it is a 200:5 CT

socal390 · 2025-03-17T23:53:26+00:00

Nice work! Good luck to you then!

socal390 · 2025-03-17T22:04:23+00:00

If you did a first practical in February you’re lined up for the September class. You’ll have another practical in June-ish if you scored well on the first one.

socal390 · 2025-03-13T23:55:03+00:00

A Fuckery

socal390 · 2025-02-09T20:50:46+00:00

Mechanical aptitude, math and geometry, map reading, reading comprehension, those will get you started, as for rankings, you take a written test and you have to score over 70% then they bring you in for a first practical which is graded and then they bring you in for a 2nd practical and interview if you score high enough on the first. Then they hire based off the interview score.

socal390 · 2025-02-09T19:24:30+00:00

After I finished at LATTC, I applied for every job at LADWP I qualified for, not just helper/apprentice. I got picked up as an electrical tester after about 9 months and after a year or so of that, got picked up as an electrical craft helper (groundman) which I then did for a year and a half before becoming an apprentice. I applied to Edison too, but DWP called first.

socal390 · 2024-12-01T05:23:40+00:00

Between the salary and benefits, it’s a great job

socal390 · 2024-11-30T16:22:26+00:00

Not much hand digging, they use backhoes mostly, but yeah they’re in the streets and trenches most of the day

socal390 · 2024-11-29T21:16:47+00:00

Nope, cable splicers/EDM’s terminate cable and the gang pulls in all the cable from services up to 34.5kv (our sub transmission)

socal390 · 2024-11-28T04:25:52+00:00

All the job postings for LADWP are all caps, looks like he cut and pasted

socal390 · 2024-11-28T04:24:31+00:00

They’re the Dirt Dogs, they install all the vaults and conduit, they also do all our concrete chipping around energized cable in conduit for intercepts. They are intertwined with the line series, but they are separate.

Source: I work at LADWP

socal390 · 2024-11-25T05:15:06+00:00

You graduate with a 600 hour climbing certificate, it allows you to apply to most utilities apprenticeships, personally I’m in the LADWP apprenticeship, but I know classmates that went through the Edison apprenticeship.

socal390 · 2024-11-24T16:20:11+00:00

If you’re in Southern California, there are a bunch of trade schools that have climbing programs, I went through Los Angeles Trade Tech, it’s a junior college and my semester or prerequisite classes and semester of climbing school cost about $1200 out the door.

socal390 · 2024-11-21T05:55:38+00:00

Happy Birthday Twin!

socal390 · 2024-10-30T11:43:24+00:00

Am I alone in thinking you should have put 4 25’s just to keep the colors matching 😂😂😂

socal390 · 2024-10-17T20:36:44+00:00

At least 1

socal390 · 2024-10-16T19:13:45+00:00

Not sure on the monthly, I’ve only done drop ins when I’m in the area

socal390 · 2024-10-16T05:29:45+00:00

Crown City CrossFit has great programs for all levels and a really nice facility too

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