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Glimpses From An Industrial Electrician's Lifetime, Ernest Thurkauf
Glimpses From An Industrial Electrician's Lifetime, Ernest Thurkauf
Swiss American Historical Society Review
My life's main line of work has been as an industrial maintenance electrician, though in early years I tried my hand as blacksmith's helper, arc and acetylene welder, coal mine laborer, lumber jack, farm hand, fruit picker, and other miscellaneous work. But it was as a trained electrician that I got my greatest joy in working especially in training men in my line of work. In my old years now, I have given much thought to what have been some very challenging jobs I had encountered as I struggled onward in this best of all possible. worlds, and these are· …