I understand what you're saying, but I don't mean personal recognition at all... I meant that it would be nice to see our crafts-folks who work in shutdowns whether they be boilermakers, pipefitters, millwrights, carpenters, electricians,laggers or whoever is working in a coal fired plant shutdown, to get the type of recognition they deserve regardless of what the owners may think of us or not!
There are even some folks in here who have never set foot inside a power plant boiler and it's associated areas, and they haven't a clue fo what we tend to take for granted of what we have to, or had to go through (I'm retired from shutdown work since my illness even though I still have my book) in order to get our work completed...
Heck, I don't beat my chest all the time either about being a Boilermaker, but I'm darn sure proud of what I've accomplished over the years, and it's about time some folks get to see what we do because after all, it's not like being an Iron worker who can point to a building or a bridge and say they played a small part in either building or repairing it...
You really can't point to a power plant and say to your nephew that you had a part in either building, or repairing one of those, but if you let them see what goes on inside, they get to see a totally different perspective of what it's like to fix something so strange and unfamiliar to most folks.
You know what it is like but, it doesn't mean that most of the other folks either here, or throughout the rest of the world have an idea of what it's like to do the type of repairs we did, or still do inside a steam generating - electricity producing power plant, and it may just enlighten some folks as to what is actually involved in producing such large amounts of electricity from coal and just how important it is to keep producing it from these power plants until we do have enough alternatives online with the grid in order to eventually move away from these types of power plants...
Anywho, enough of my plug for shutdown repairs on a power plant boiler... Good talking to you Sharp Tungsten! ;)
Respectfully,
Henry