"How much of my utility apprenticeship would be just mule work? How much of actual line work is just grunt work? Is there a lot of trouble-shooting and problem solving involved?"
John, if you have the chance to get the job,
don't worry about what type of tasks it takes to work your way up, just get in there and get started, if someone asked me how much mule work there was, i would discount him as someone that would not work out in the long term, the utility companies would start out new employees as waterboy, then they would get a chance to see how he melts with the crew, if that works, then they would make him goffer/utility man, as you put it mule work, if that worked out, and you were good at following instructions, then you would start line trainning, the crew, and the company would at that time be willing to invest in you.
[This message has been edited by LK (edited 07-08-2005).]
