While I agree on the "unhardiness" of most folks today, myself included, I want to disagree on part of the discussion.
The motto of the electric utility I work for is "No urgency of service ever justifies the safety of the worker or customer". This concept leads to longer outages, according to one of our trainers who started as a lineman in the early 1970's. We have virtually eliminated climbing poles and working lines hot in favor of the safer bucket trucks and line de-energization/grounding. Yes, much safer, but also more time-consuming. And required to keep your job, no one wants to work with an unsafe coworker, no "cowboys".
This guy watched his mentor get electrocuted working a line hot that could have been grounded, but he was cutting corners, as they "always" did. The cost of a life is way too high for that. So we slow down and do it right and it all gets back on eventually.
Still long days, dangerous work in tough conditions, but performed as safely as possible.
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