 My name is Brandon Burright and I'm a lineman. The hardest part about my job is being away from my family for an extended amount of time. Sometimes it's five days, sometimes it's eleven days, sometimes it might be three weeks. We wake up at 4.30 in the morning. Your wife and kids are in the bed at that time and sometimes you don't get off to after dark or even later. So they're in the bed by that time so if you talk to them it's very little throughout the day so it's hard to ever get to talk to your family or see them. The longest period of time I've been away from home on a job was 2005 Hurricane Katrina. I was going for over a month. It's about five weeks. The best part about being a lineman is the times it comes with difficult tasks and the feeling of accomplishment when you complete those tasks. When somebody shows us appreciation when we're out on a job storm and such it feels real good.