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Pulled my 1,000th drop on Tuesday and had to sit in the van for a minute
I was running coax in a condo building in Dayton when the counter in my head hit 1,000 drops for my career. Took me four and a half years to get there, and most of those were single wall plates, nothing fancy. What got me was realizing I still fumble the same way on old lath and plaster walls that I did on my very first job. My supervisor keeps telling me to move to fiber splicing, but something about pulling cable still feels like the job. Anyone else hit a round number and feel weirdly stuck instead of proud?
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sandra1461d ago
The lath and plaster thing hits hard because thats the part nobody tells you about starting out. You think experience means all the walls get easier, then you're 4 years in standing in front of the same crumbly mess you fought on day one and it feels like the trade is laughing at you. But honestly thats not being stuck, thats just what old buildings do to everybody, even the 20 year guys still cuss those walls. The round number weirdness probably isnt about the cable at all, its that hitting 1000 means you cant pretend you're still new and figuring it out. Splicing looks cleaner and pays better but if pulling still feels like the job to you that counts for something most people never find in their work. Give it another 500 drops and see if that feeling changes or digs in deeper.
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