One of my better friends, Arnold, is a guy who thinks right after he should. When he was a kid I watched him stick a fork into an electrical socket, because as he said, "I wanted to turn it 'on'" I think it's fair to say that he turned the fork 'on' but he did have his hand attached to it at the time and that turned almost everything 'off' for Arnold.
As we got older, Arnold became an electrician. How this happened with his mind and his history I don't know. But he likes it. He thinks electricity is fascinating. I think that helps when you're an electrician. Seeing a mystery or a beauty in something helps to keep you focused. Helps to keep things interesting as well. Being an electrician requires a lot of troubleshooting. Codes that exist in one place don't exist in another, and codes that exist now probably didn't exist 20 years ago. As well, homes and buildings can be done differently by a different electrician and still be in code. So what in one design might be the issue, in another could another. The other thing an electrician has to deal with is customers. Customers are important, but some of them just cause an electrician more of a headache. They try to fix things, or fiddle with things and then complain about the bill.
Arnold still likes it though, and every year or so still electrocutes himself like when he was a kid. Brings back memories.
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