When you work for a power company you quickly come to grips with the fact that you make and sell the most boring commoditized product imaginable: your customers can't see your product, taste it or smell it and if they have the misfortune of touching it, they die. So you compensate by taking pride and comfort in the fact that you are providing the very foundation to modern society - all human services, all wealth creation, much of what enriches the human existence - is made possible by the ready availability of safe and affordable electricity.
And that, actually, is pretty heady stuff and a compelling source of quiet pride for power company employees.
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