Workers in the electrical distribution or transmission industry who string and join powerlines, both overhead and underground. In some organisations, they can train to become "Live Linesmen", who are qualified to work on live voltages above 1000V AC RMS.
Extra linesmen had to be called in from other depots after the storm, with all the conductors down all over the region.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”