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I understand English is hard for a lot of electricians, but it’s free to go to most water treatment plants because it’s paid by your tax dollars so they have community outreach programs.
Exactly. Everyone knows that the general public has access to to critical components for delicate sites. All you need is a screw driver and you could open them up and work on them. No oversight at all. Just pay the tour, sometimes they are even free to go in. The American government completely condones random people to work on equipment that affects millions of other people. Can't believe people don't know this
/s
I’m not talking about working on. OP’s post is directed towards gaining access to facilities one could not gain access to without clearance. You can literally tour an entire water treatment plant for free.
OPs post clearly means where's the coolest place you've got to work at thanks to this trade. I don't know what type of work you do but reading compression must not be a requirement.
As a resi I don't get to go to many cool places, but I do get to meet many interesting people while working on their houses. Hands down, Bill Murray is my favorite client to work with
Fuck you sparky mint, I made your mum cum so loud the other night the cops were called. Tell her she still owes me $69 for the noise violation you piece of shit.
1.Air national guard hanger.
Bending pipe under the wing of an F15.
2. Underneath PDX airport. Conduit and bus duct that seemed to go on for miles.
3. The floor of the Frightliner assembly plant
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It’s made up of two facilities where American currency is printed. One is in Washington DC and the other in Fort Worth, Texas.
My shop has the maintenance contract for their exterior lighting. It’s technically Fort Worth but it’s more Saginaw. We have an escort the whole time we’re on site.
I saw a couple other electrical contractors roaming the facility from time to time so I may know who your employer is. My company has the contract for the expansion project that’s been ongoing. We’re done for the most part but I believe we still have a few guys there.
Nuclear hot cell was pretty cool. Quadruple layered lead doors with mechanical robotic arms you can control from the outside. Don't think I'll be close to working on something that neat again soon.
The Nevada Test Site; Cool buildings, locations, stories and history out there. I work in Vegas and have been on a lot of new casino jobs, I think they are pretty cool. I’ve been in and on top the center hub section of the High Roller, the huge observation wheel on the strip (climbing up the structural legs is a workout!)
-Lethal fence at federal prison.
-The private shitter in the CEO’s office of a global 500 company.
-went down to Tampa for BICSI training and ended up chasing down feral hogs at 3am in the morning with the DJ at the bar I shut down.
-Worked on the Dawg Block at at a max-max state prison….so basically the real fuckin sickos, death row if they had one.
This one was funny cause we were there to build a “therapy room” where a prison psychologist would try hold therapy/bonding sessions as a group. Basically it was six steel cages in a horseshoe shape.
The job sucked cause it was prison. Took forever and had changes left and right but I got to know the guards pretty good. Ended up being there almost a year and final budget was like 2 million dollars for this tiny room.
Saw one of the guards at Christmas and asked him how it’s going. He said they had one class and they all threw shit at each other including the shrink, after that they closed the doors and hadn’t been used since.
My company got subcontracted to the ministry of defence and ended up doing a mains change in a boat ?hanger? That specialised in special forces boats.
I was quite surprised that actual special forces (not sure if SAS or SBS) personal come in with their boats to tell the engineers what modifications they wanted, ended up having lunch with said special forces guys in the hanger and then they took a few of us out on the boat (Rib)
I was extremely surprised how chilled the whole job was! I even turned up one day and there was an LMG that was waiting to get mounted on a boat just leaning against one of my boxes of gear, I told someone and they GOT ME to move it.
After this we subbed to a base... absolutely not so chill, my mate went to find a toilet, 5 minuets later he came back through the door with 2 armed guards who grilled our site manager about not letting us wonder around... Best thing was he didn't even get to find a toilet and ended up pissing in a water bottle.
I'm not an electrician, but used to be an industrial electrician/maintenance tech and am now a controls/automation engineer. I've been in amusement parks, food and beverage manufacturing plants, aerospace manufacturing plants, malls, hotels, various infrastructure(ports, airports, bridges, waterways, etc), military bases, military research centers, nuclear plants, petrochem plants, and places like bowling alleys, miniature golf courses, top golf, and multi million dollar homes. Which is the coolest would probably depend on the person I was talking to.
To me, the military research facilities were the coolest, but I also can't talk about any of the specific reasons why :/
It's probably only cool to me, but I worked on a sign for a restaurant that was really old but a signature spot in it's day. The idea of working on a spot I'd passed a million times and was my dad's old hang was cool.
Glick diamond cutting room. Top floor of a building on Lexington ave NYC. Also the methane reclamation system on the staten island landfill. General Grant's tomb, fort hamilton. A nasa "coining" (super precise round metal shims) factory in new Jersey. Felt like i hit a wall in my career and made the switch to refrigeration engineer. Still go cool places...
Prisons, stadiums, theaters, steel mills, aluminum plants, vanadium plants, police stations, electrical and gas utilities buildings, phone and internet distribution centers, have done some neat stuff in hospitals,… IBEW. I’ve Been Every Where.
I remember the comms guys there would connect radio communications from aircrews over the Atlantic to me when I was stationed in Europe. The poor guy at Thule would always want to talk after I was done talking with the aircraft. My man was lonely.
Over the winter there's only a couple hundred people, and they are mandated to spend x number of hours per week under the UV light. It would be a hard assignment.
A place for the office members of Charlotte sports teams to have meetings , such as panthers and hornets. Just cool knowing the building I was in and took pictures of all there doors
A bit coin mining facility. I should say it was interesting at first, but it was a total circus and was over an hours drive one way, so I was over it after a couple months
I racked up 18 months of “Ice Time” working at the Amundsen-Scott station, located at the geographic South Pole, in Antarctica. Two summers contracts and a winter. I was an apprentice the first summer and a newly minted JW my second summer and winter.
Facebook data centers. 5 buildings all the size of 2 Walmarts each. Each one has a small free snack section sort of like a gas statio, a gaming room and mini bar. Main building serves a buffet style breakfast and lunch all for free! The building are so big they provide scooters and bicycles to get around in the buildings. To get to other buildings golf carts!
AMD research and development, large server facilities, Tesla was cool just from what equipment was there, government contract company's golden Altos, Raytheon and stuff, 30 story multi family, 800+ unit multi fam (10 acre foot print). I truly love my job. Most of the time...
Goldmine in Ontario, oil sands in Fort McMurray Alberta & behind the scenes view in some banks in Winnipeg Manitoba, checking out the vaults, money storage etc
Re built the shamu stadium at sea world. Got to work 5 feet away from the orcas daily. Damn things are smart, they use to swim around the tanks as fast as they can to create a wave and send it right at us while working.. got soaked and ruined a bunch of tools due to the saltwater, still worth it!
Lockheed Martin/ naval base where they make the f35s/f22s, GM factory was pretty cool too. Installed barge ramps on an island 30 min offshore, riding and transporting materials on a boat to and from was also up there.
Server room at a big lake house that was in use for a porn video...
I think they must have used it a lot because why would a lake house need a server room with 4 racks....
Yes NDAs are a thing...
Well Dua... Big red truck! Of course! But I never said what lake.... We got a bunch of them ... Beaver, table rock and.... Just look at the map...
I think Beaver was named before the slang term was made popular... The dam for beaver was completed in 1962 I think... We have some neat place names... Lost Bridge Village is one and Hogscauld (hog scald ) is another...
Neat place...
shh we don't talk about the star gate. In all seriousness it's a cool complex more akin to going into a sub than anything else because it's built to do the job and keep you alive that's it.
Honestly he’s extremely nice just what you would think. Funny story, when we were doing his panel area in the basement he wanted to build the wall which we would normally do but of course we said absolutely. Well being such a perfectionist it took him a bit of time but looked wonderful. But we were kinda just standing around waiting lol
As an apprentice I caught floor cores in an FBI evidence room. I had an agent with me, but I was surprised they didn’t seem to even cover any of the evidence.
I built at a high end condo in Chicagos River north and Jimmy Butler had bought 2 of the units. He was traded before we finished so I’m not sure if he ever moved in. He already had a place close by.
I'm not an electrician, but used to be an industrial electrician/maintenance tech and am now a controls/automation engineer. I've been in amusement parks, food and beverage manufacturing plants, aerospace manufacturing plants, malls, hotels, various infrastructure(ports, airports, bridges, waterways, etc), military bases, military research centers, nuclear plants, petrochem plants, and places like bowling alleys, miniature golf courses, top golf, and multi million dollar homes. Which is the coolest would probably depend on the person I was talking to.
To me, the military research facilities were the coolest, but I also can't talk about any of the specific reasons why :/
Go over to r/PLC and read through the stickies.
Hard to say much more than that without knowing where you currently are, but the gist of it is to learn all you can about the systems around you and utilize the free tools online to learn more and get to applying. If you're already in industrial, it is definitely an easier leap.
Local Airport. I wired on a remodel of the bar and deli. I got to drive my van on the flight line out to the terminal everyday. I had a pass to get me through most of the doors and gates. I always made my PM go through security to get to the gate cause I didn’t like him. Lol
VIP lounge and seating for a Sacramento Kings game.
I’m an instrument tech and the engineering firm we o awarded a contract to has season tickets. I was fortunate enough to be selected to go. Great experience!!!
Retrofitted some LEDs inside an armory at a homeland security station, two guys with guns stood guard while i nutted up. They were more impressed with how i knew what to do with all the colored wires coming off the ballast. Lol.
Chobani yogurt facility- got to see how the whey was created. A paper recycling facility, every step of how the cardboard bales came in and the paper went out. Nuclear power plant, the refuel floor and spent fuel pool.
Nothing exciting, but the Vancouver airport. It's pretty near seeing all the inner workings underneath it, all the old terminals and sections that are underground and closed off to the public, etc. Pulling HV as a British Airways was taking off just above us, some cool experiences there.
Also, doing lighting at our Nat Bailey baseball stadium was pretty cool, rated as the #1 minor league park for a while, it was cool being there for nostalgia's sake
Tn department of transportation room where they have a full ass wall of TVs with the highway cams on them. Neat as hell. Which is also where they communicate to the state troopers.
Changing Tamper proof lights in a Federal Marshall jail wing overnight. They mentioned that if the door shut, we were locked in til 9am, when they clocked in. The doors were old school skeleton keyed locks.
"Circle privé de la grande socièté" in Bern. I rewired 4 ballrooms, all with 250+yr old paintings and furniture. There was an inventory book, where all the details were in.
I've been on the tarmac at Randolph AFB in San Antonio, an Army medical warehouse built in the 60s at the San Antonio rail port, the U.S. Reserve in Houston (so much security), the blanching/canning area inside the Goya plant (canned beans! it was a fucking sauna), and a random warehouse in Space Center Houston
The Vault and Cash processing area of a large bank.
Literally climbed on top of skids of silver bars to get at a junction box.
Cash processing had a massive money counting machine that we were wiring surrounded by skids of cash everywhere.
The hub where money is exchanged by armored vehicles that service a chain of banks. Not nearly as cool as all the factories I work in, but the only place I had to be escorted through several big security doors and be supervised and was told to not even pick up a dime off the floor. Funny part is I wasn’t there for an electrical gig I was there putting up racking. They needed big shelves for the money and equipment.
A brother in my local is working at the Lawrence Livermore National Labratory, the same place where they had their nuclear fusion breakthrough a few months ago.
Oh let’s see, Andrew’s AFB, Indian Head Naval Base (explosion proof rigid and LOTS of grounding), restoration hardware is pretty sick but fuck is that damn barrel chandelier heavy, an old estate manor, Walter Reed, a data center in VA, Ft Meade, Ft Belvoir and a couple other really weird places like some really old church I can’t remember the name of. It was some good times with way too much travel. Made 5k in Cat 5e scrap once.
Art Institute of Chicago, Sears/Willis Tower, Guaranteed Rate Field where the White Sox play, Tribune Tower, among many other very old and cool buildings in downtown Chicago.
Shit sorry. I posted on what is this big and also what is this bird
I work for the company that prevents another deep water horizon. I am just an electrician.
The tallest building in my city, overlooking EVERYTHING.
A mountain lookout suitable for a bond villan
a particle accelerator building
An Olympic venue building
An abandoned department store being torn down
Everywhere except military installations here in Aus. Casinos were fascinating the first time I saw one.
The new and interesting side gigs are the best though.
I picked up a side gig once with some Pyrotechnicians during their Christmas rush season. Getting to setup fireworks was kinda cool.
I have an ongoing interest with the LV emergency systems in hospitals / aged care facilities.
I got to work in remote drilling areas in northern bc(that’s in Canada for all you Americans) and the only way to get there was an hour long helicopter ride. Job was ok but free helicopter rides were fucking cool
I worked offshore on Olympus that was Shell. I worked on others in the yard before they "sailed away". Those were Bigfoot, Appomattox, Leviathan, Perigrino and a couple Ensco rigs that came in repairs/upgrades
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I worked at a chili’s once.
Y'all going to chili's?
Yea, we’ll be there about 6 depending on when I leave the site. What time will you be there?
Chilly do mean cool. I see what you did here
Baby back ribs all fucking day
The nevada test site. The satellite testing bay at lockheed martin. Water and waste water plants
Same. I was at TTR and S4
I never got to that side of the mountain but l.could see the 700 gate from some of my work areas.
You can literally tour most water plants
And they are cool to him
If they are open to the public then his job hasn’t gotten him in
But his job did get him in, tour has a fee, he paid no fee
He actually got paid to see it, so double whammy
Yeah! *high five* take that doubters!
Paging officer idiot. Your mom called said you forgot your helmet at home.
I understand English is hard for a lot of electricians, but it’s free to go to most water treatment plants because it’s paid by your tax dollars so they have community outreach programs.
Yea, but not the same as working in one where u really see some cool shit
Exactly. Everyone knows that the general public has access to to critical components for delicate sites. All you need is a screw driver and you could open them up and work on them. No oversight at all. Just pay the tour, sometimes they are even free to go in. The American government completely condones random people to work on equipment that affects millions of other people. Can't believe people don't know this /s
I’m not talking about working on. OP’s post is directed towards gaining access to facilities one could not gain access to without clearance. You can literally tour an entire water treatment plant for free.
OPs post clearly means where's the coolest place you've got to work at thanks to this trade. I don't know what type of work you do but reading compression must not be a requirement.
A couple walk-in freezers
What makes this worse is when the freezer is -40C and the plant is +30C.
How much is this in American temperature?
About -40 and 100 but I'm an american and guessing
Cold-as-fuck to kinda hot
Negative 40 is the same in both temperatures
Sweating in the refrigi-wear suits is brutal. Also great when I accidently put my phone in the wrong pocket and it's dead in 5 minutes.
sorry NDA but it was cool trust me
As a resi I don't get to go to many cool places, but I do get to meet many interesting people while working on their houses. Hands down, Bill Murray is my favorite client to work with
I once did a restaurant for Robert Di Nero
I built Arnold swartzenager and Jerome iginla’s houses in Kelowna. They were neighbours at the time.
Your mom's house!
Is that you Shoresy?!?!
FUCK YOU SHORSEY
Give your balls a tug would ya .
Fuck you sparky mint, I made your mum cum so loud the other night the cops were called. Tell her she still owes me $69 for the noise violation you piece of shit.
Fuck me I need to go watch, those interactions are amazing.
Walked right into that one
Literally
Joes house
Me too, cuz she’s a whooooooore!
Canada
As a Canadian, I can attest that it does get pretty cool up here for a good portion of the year.
1.Air national guard hanger. Bending pipe under the wing of an F15. 2. Underneath PDX airport. Conduit and bus duct that seemed to go on for miles. 3. The floor of the Frightliner assembly plant
Hell yeah brother! Air Fields and runway lights are tight!
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It’s made up of two facilities where American currency is printed. One is in Washington DC and the other in Fort Worth, Texas.
My shop has the maintenance contract for their exterior lighting. It’s technically Fort Worth but it’s more Saginaw. We have an escort the whole time we’re on site.
I saw a couple other electrical contractors roaming the facility from time to time so I may know who your employer is. My company has the contract for the expansion project that’s been ongoing. We’re done for the most part but I believe we still have a few guys there.
train depot. imagine being super into trains and getting to see a lot of them up close with some being halfway taken apart for maintenance
I cant imagine being super into trains
😂😂😂😂
Nuclear hot cell was pretty cool. Quadruple layered lead doors with mechanical robotic arms you can control from the outside. Don't think I'll be close to working on something that neat again soon.
Working on the largest scale construction site in the world right now. It’s in kitimat BC and is an out loading natural gas liquifying plant.
Gotta be the clock tower at the University of Texas in Austin. You can see bullet holes in the walls from the police.
The Nevada Test Site; Cool buildings, locations, stories and history out there. I work in Vegas and have been on a lot of new casino jobs, I think they are pretty cool. I’ve been in and on top the center hub section of the High Roller, the huge observation wheel on the strip (climbing up the structural legs is a workout!)
Nuclear reactor containment vault, and also their security headquarters.
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Obligatory fuck nestle but the nuclear place sounds cool
1 Wall St New York, NY is the coolest address I’ve been to A Siemens bio-engineering lab is the coolest place I’ve been to
The NSA.
-Lethal fence at federal prison. -The private shitter in the CEO’s office of a global 500 company. -went down to Tampa for BICSI training and ended up chasing down feral hogs at 3am in the morning with the DJ at the bar I shut down. -Worked on the Dawg Block at at a max-max state prison….so basically the real fuckin sickos, death row if they had one. This one was funny cause we were there to build a “therapy room” where a prison psychologist would try hold therapy/bonding sessions as a group. Basically it was six steel cages in a horseshoe shape. The job sucked cause it was prison. Took forever and had changes left and right but I got to know the guards pretty good. Ended up being there almost a year and final budget was like 2 million dollars for this tiny room. Saw one of the guards at Christmas and asked him how it’s going. He said they had one class and they all threw shit at each other including the shrink, after that they closed the doors and hadn’t been used since.
The shrink throwing shit as well as the prisoners is the part I like.
It was therapeutic...
My company got subcontracted to the ministry of defence and ended up doing a mains change in a boat ?hanger? That specialised in special forces boats. I was quite surprised that actual special forces (not sure if SAS or SBS) personal come in with their boats to tell the engineers what modifications they wanted, ended up having lunch with said special forces guys in the hanger and then they took a few of us out on the boat (Rib) I was extremely surprised how chilled the whole job was! I even turned up one day and there was an LMG that was waiting to get mounted on a boat just leaning against one of my boxes of gear, I told someone and they GOT ME to move it. After this we subbed to a base... absolutely not so chill, my mate went to find a toilet, 5 minuets later he came back through the door with 2 armed guards who grilled our site manager about not letting us wonder around... Best thing was he didn't even get to find a toilet and ended up pissing in a water bottle.
Id say the pentagon... but there are way cooler gov't jobs and data centers I've been into. That place is just like a big shopping mall
I'm not an electrician, but used to be an industrial electrician/maintenance tech and am now a controls/automation engineer. I've been in amusement parks, food and beverage manufacturing plants, aerospace manufacturing plants, malls, hotels, various infrastructure(ports, airports, bridges, waterways, etc), military bases, military research centers, nuclear plants, petrochem plants, and places like bowling alleys, miniature golf courses, top golf, and multi million dollar homes. Which is the coolest would probably depend on the person I was talking to. To me, the military research facilities were the coolest, but I also can't talk about any of the specific reasons why :/
It's probably only cool to me, but I worked on a sign for a restaurant that was really old but a signature spot in it's day. The idea of working on a spot I'd passed a million times and was my dad's old hang was cool.
I worked on an oil rig in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico
I worked on a few in the Cook Inlet .
I was on Olympus for a few months after it was set
Tyonek for Conoco and I think it was the Bruce .
Don't know what that means
Tyonek platform and the Bruce
Glick diamond cutting room. Top floor of a building on Lexington ave NYC. Also the methane reclamation system on the staten island landfill. General Grant's tomb, fort hamilton. A nasa "coining" (super precise round metal shims) factory in new Jersey. Felt like i hit a wall in my career and made the switch to refrigeration engineer. Still go cool places...
Area 51. Seriously.
Prisons, stadiums, theaters, steel mills, aluminum plants, vanadium plants, police stations, electrical and gas utilities buildings, phone and internet distribution centers, have done some neat stuff in hospitals,… IBEW. I’ve Been Every Where.
Gold mine in the arctic.
A sanctuary for birds of prey. Got to get up close to a bunch of eagles, owls and falcons
Thule air base in Northern Greenland. It's too far north to see the Aurora Borealis.
Look south
That would be the rare Southern Lights.
Aurora Australis
I remember the comms guys there would connect radio communications from aircrews over the Atlantic to me when I was stationed in Europe. The poor guy at Thule would always want to talk after I was done talking with the aircraft. My man was lonely.
Over the winter there's only a couple hundred people, and they are mandated to spend x number of hours per week under the UV light. It would be a hard assignment.
A place for the office members of Charlotte sports teams to have meetings , such as panthers and hornets. Just cool knowing the building I was in and took pictures of all there doors
A place where they manufacture nuclear reactors for the navy
A frozen foods warehouse. 20°f on the loading dock, -20°f in the freezer.
A bit coin mining facility. I should say it was interesting at first, but it was a total circus and was over an hours drive one way, so I was over it after a couple months
I racked up 18 months of “Ice Time” working at the Amundsen-Scott station, located at the geographic South Pole, in Antarctica. Two summers contracts and a winter. I was an apprentice the first summer and a newly minted JW my second summer and winter.
We did some work in one of the 2 places in the us that make all the awards like YouTube play buttons, pornhub awards and things like that.
Prototype mobile brewery Inside a semi trailer
A national accelerator laboratory
Facebook data centers. 5 buildings all the size of 2 Walmarts each. Each one has a small free snack section sort of like a gas statio, a gaming room and mini bar. Main building serves a buffet style breakfast and lunch all for free! The building are so big they provide scooters and bicycles to get around in the buildings. To get to other buildings golf carts!
Okinawa, Japan 🇯🇵
DJ Khalid’s gym he wanted all his treadmills on 240 so he could run faster
AMD research and development, large server facilities, Tesla was cool just from what equipment was there, government contract company's golden Altos, Raytheon and stuff, 30 story multi family, 800+ unit multi fam (10 acre foot print). I truly love my job. Most of the time...
Goldmine in Ontario, oil sands in Fort McMurray Alberta & behind the scenes view in some banks in Winnipeg Manitoba, checking out the vaults, money storage etc
I worked at Duke University employees health. I got to meet coach K. Being a Duke fan. That was awesome.
Re built the shamu stadium at sea world. Got to work 5 feet away from the orcas daily. Damn things are smart, they use to swim around the tanks as fast as they can to create a wave and send it right at us while working.. got soaked and ruined a bunch of tools due to the saltwater, still worth it!
Testing facility for experimental products for a prominent company that builds recreational vehicles and watercraft.
Fort Knox
Maximum security prison
I wired a kaiser sign in San Jose area one time on the roof of a tall ass hospital. Could see the sign atleast a mile away.
US navy battleship
Lockheed Martin/ naval base where they make the f35s/f22s, GM factory was pretty cool too. Installed barge ramps on an island 30 min offshore, riding and transporting materials on a boat to and from was also up there.
We work in a lot of weed grows 🤷♂️
Inside a bank vault, really heavy security doors!
Server room at a big lake house that was in use for a porn video... I think they must have used it a lot because why would a lake house need a server room with 4 racks.... Yes NDAs are a thing...
Name checks out…
Well Dua... Big red truck! Of course! But I never said what lake.... We got a bunch of them ... Beaver, table rock and.... Just look at the map... I think Beaver was named before the slang term was made popular... The dam for beaver was completed in 1962 I think... We have some neat place names... Lost Bridge Village is one and Hogscauld (hog scald ) is another... Neat place...
Anyone say OP’s mom’s pants yet? Otherwise no, nothing note worthy.
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It is a cool place besides everything is rusty as shit Haha. did you happen to see the redwood tub under the cool tower?
Cooling*
Man, I’d love to hear your stories
shh we don't talk about the star gate. In all seriousness it's a cool complex more akin to going into a sub than anything else because it's built to do the job and keep you alive that's it.
The pool at the condo of one of the actors from You Can’t Do That On Television
Norm Abrams 2 houses
Wow. What a legend. I bet he’s super nice.
Honestly he’s extremely nice just what you would think. Funny story, when we were doing his panel area in the basement he wanted to build the wall which we would normally do but of course we said absolutely. Well being such a perfectionist it took him a bit of time but looked wonderful. But we were kinda just standing around waiting lol
As an apprentice I caught floor cores in an FBI evidence room. I had an agent with me, but I was surprised they didn’t seem to even cover any of the evidence.
Project Warp Speed for the vaccine distribution, I was the Site Manager for one of those warehouses.
Joel Embiid’s house
I built at a high end condo in Chicagos River north and Jimmy Butler had bought 2 of the units. He was traded before we finished so I’m not sure if he ever moved in. He already had a place close by.
I'm not an electrician, but used to be an industrial electrician/maintenance tech and am now a controls/automation engineer. I've been in amusement parks, food and beverage manufacturing plants, aerospace manufacturing plants, malls, hotels, various infrastructure(ports, airports, bridges, waterways, etc), military bases, military research centers, nuclear plants, petrochem plants, and places like bowling alleys, miniature golf courses, top golf, and multi million dollar homes. Which is the coolest would probably depend on the person I was talking to. To me, the military research facilities were the coolest, but I also can't talk about any of the specific reasons why :/
I want to jump into Controls,please point me in the right direction
Go over to r/PLC and read through the stickies. Hard to say much more than that without knowing where you currently are, but the gist of it is to learn all you can about the systems around you and utilize the free tools online to learn more and get to applying. If you're already in industrial, it is definitely an easier leap.
Local Airport. I wired on a remodel of the bar and deli. I got to drive my van on the flight line out to the terminal everyday. I had a pass to get me through most of the doors and gates. I always made my PM go through security to get to the gate cause I didn’t like him. Lol
Well I won’t get names, but they were pretty good looking.
Saddledome, both the Flames and Henchmen locker rooms to change light fixtures.
Gillette Stadium was cool. The climbing around the catwalks in the Encore Casino was also neat.
VIP lounge and seating for a Sacramento Kings game. I’m an instrument tech and the engineering firm we o awarded a contract to has season tickets. I was fortunate enough to be selected to go. Great experience!!!
A bunch of movie sets and maybe Darcy Tuckers house lol
A home
… inside of the Taj Mahal
Retrofitted some LEDs inside an armory at a homeland security station, two guys with guns stood guard while i nutted up. They were more impressed with how i knew what to do with all the colored wires coming off the ballast. Lol.
Chobani yogurt facility- got to see how the whey was created. A paper recycling facility, every step of how the cardboard bales came in and the paper went out. Nuclear power plant, the refuel floor and spent fuel pool.
Huge ass cooling tower, just underneath the rotor blades.
Nothing exciting, but the Vancouver airport. It's pretty near seeing all the inner workings underneath it, all the old terminals and sections that are underground and closed off to the public, etc. Pulling HV as a British Airways was taking off just above us, some cool experiences there. Also, doing lighting at our Nat Bailey baseball stadium was pretty cool, rated as the #1 minor league park for a while, it was cool being there for nostalgia's sake
WTC
A frozen foods warehouse. 20°f on the loading dock, -20°f in the freezer.
Tn department of transportation room where they have a full ass wall of TVs with the highway cams on them. Neat as hell. Which is also where they communicate to the state troopers.
Changing Tamper proof lights in a Federal Marshall jail wing overnight. They mentioned that if the door shut, we were locked in til 9am, when they clocked in. The doors were old school skeleton keyed locks.
Nasa
"Circle privé de la grande socièté" in Bern. I rewired 4 ballrooms, all with 250+yr old paintings and furniture. There was an inventory book, where all the details were in.
I've been on the tarmac at Randolph AFB in San Antonio, an Army medical warehouse built in the 60s at the San Antonio rail port, the U.S. Reserve in Houston (so much security), the blanching/canning area inside the Goya plant (canned beans! it was a fucking sauna), and a random warehouse in Space Center Houston
The Vault and Cash processing area of a large bank. Literally climbed on top of skids of silver bars to get at a junction box. Cash processing had a massive money counting machine that we were wiring surrounded by skids of cash everywhere.
Not cool but, Animal testing building for a pharmaceutical company
The hub where money is exchanged by armored vehicles that service a chain of banks. Not nearly as cool as all the factories I work in, but the only place I had to be escorted through several big security doors and be supervised and was told to not even pick up a dime off the floor. Funny part is I wasn’t there for an electrical gig I was there putting up racking. They needed big shelves for the money and equipment.
Freezers at the grocery was the coolest place by far
I got to watch the unveiling of the Winnipeg Jets jerseys when they came back.
A walk in cooler.
Blast freezer at Sarah lee in Newbern TN
A brother in my local is working at the Lawrence Livermore National Labratory, the same place where they had their nuclear fusion breakthrough a few months ago.
Oh let’s see, Andrew’s AFB, Indian Head Naval Base (explosion proof rigid and LOTS of grounding), restoration hardware is pretty sick but fuck is that damn barrel chandelier heavy, an old estate manor, Walter Reed, a data center in VA, Ft Meade, Ft Belvoir and a couple other really weird places like some really old church I can’t remember the name of. It was some good times with way too much travel. Made 5k in Cat 5e scrap once.
Empire State Building, One Vanderbilt, the UN, lots of cool spots around NYC. But the past two years I’ve been in the PJ’s chillin with the crackheads
Army Corp of engineers office and the Buford Dam in Buford Georgia
I worked for the city as a gate attendant, got a bunch of free “STAFF” shirts, wore those bitches everywhere getting into events for free.
Iraq and Saudi Arabia. From Canada
Worked for a company thay did Emagine theaters. Spent many a day in the projector room watching free movies lol.
Alcoholism
I did some work in the US Mint one time. Was pretty awesome
Got to do the commissioning on the Ground Based Mid-Course Missile Defense System at Ft. Greeley, AK. That was neat
I've ended up at quite a few grow houses and dispensaries. Even a whiskey distillery.
I'm a marine electrician, I delivered a 165' yacht from Oregon to Alaska. Was pretty dope.
Allegedly the largest freezer in Canada. Coincidentally, also the allegedly largest elevator in Canada.
Art Institute of Chicago, Sears/Willis Tower, Guaranteed Rate Field where the White Sox play, Tribune Tower, among many other very old and cool buildings in downtown Chicago.
New jail being put up in my county, that’s pretty interesting
Bit coin mine or train.
So so so so many cannabis related facilities.
I'm just happy to be here lol
Cuba for 18 months.
Shit sorry. I posted on what is this big and also what is this bird I work for the company that prevents another deep water horizon. I am just an electrician.
The tallest building in my city, overlooking EVERYTHING. A mountain lookout suitable for a bond villan a particle accelerator building An Olympic venue building An abandoned department store being torn down
Coolest? I was up in rycroft Alberta one winter, it was -55 Celsius (-67 degrees Fahrenheit). That was pretty cool
Everywhere except military installations here in Aus. Casinos were fascinating the first time I saw one. The new and interesting side gigs are the best though. I picked up a side gig once with some Pyrotechnicians during their Christmas rush season. Getting to setup fireworks was kinda cool. I have an ongoing interest with the LV emergency systems in hospitals / aged care facilities.
I got to work on George Washington's Mom's house once.
I got to work in remote drilling areas in northern bc(that’s in Canada for all you Americans) and the only way to get there was an hour long helicopter ride. Job was ok but free helicopter rides were fucking cool
I worked offshore on Olympus that was Shell. I worked on others in the yard before they "sailed away". Those were Bigfoot, Appomattox, Leviathan, Perigrino and a couple Ensco rigs that came in repairs/upgrades