>> Hello, my name is Jersey Power.
I'm a lineman for our Power Company.
>> Can you describe in detail what
your duties are on a daily basis?
>> Yeah, the arrangement of various activities.
On a normal day I would be going up to
a 53 or 60 food bucket truck and working
on an average 12,000 volts but also on a regular
basis I could be working with 500,000 volts
at a helicopter and climbing steal, poles
and towers and still working with hot sticks.
So, wide range of things.
>> What do you love about it?
>> Just the risk about the job, knowing that
I going to stay 100 percent focus all the time
and working with one of my coworkers that we
kind of have a brotherhood together and we join
and were going to get the job done safely.
>> What are some of the challenges
that you face?
>> Well, just some of the activities
of the job is just climbing.
Also working in climate or whether
conditions either snow, rain, ice,
high winds, trying to climb a polar tower.
We're also just going up in the bucket truck
and try to work safety with
12,000 volts in your hands.
>> What does it take to be successful?
>> One, you got to have a
positive attitude all the time.
You got to be at work with others
and you going to be how to learn.
If you can't learning and adapt
and work with your coworkers,
you will never get this job done.
>> Anything a kid could do to prepare
themselves for a career like yours?
>> You definitely want to do an internship.
If you don't do an internship, obviously
you won't know if it's for you or not
but it's something you would
want to look for into.
>> Anything like a certain major they
would have to have focus on in school or?
>> Just the science and any kind of
either electricity or anything like that.
>> What are your hours like?
Do you get to work from home?
Do you work a lot?
>> I always have to go to
my office on a daily basis.
Our hours are from 7 to 3:30, 40 hours a week,
but we're on call on a daily basis as well.
So sometimes I can work 40 hours in a work
week or if we have an ice storm up north
or if there's hurricanes down south,
we can work over 100 hours a week too.
>> So does your work is a territory based?
>> Yes it is.
Other than [inaudible] Pennsylvania
and I work at home most of the time.
But if there's emergency, we will go all
over the country and help people out.
>> Any final advice you'd like to give to kids
who would like to enter a field like yours?
>> Just research it, maybe talk to people that
are in their profession and do an internship.