By Taylor Telford

The Washington Post

In 2023, after he was captivated by a video showing a day in the life of a group of trainees scaling a lattice tower for the first time, Dylan Healy moved from New York to Georgia with some friends to attend the Southeast Lineman Training Center.

“We’d rewatch that video over and over because it got us excited to go to trade school,” said Healy, 20.

Their love of that clip prompted a friend to suggest Healy document his first day of trade school on TikTok. He was stunned when it went viral. It had no music or editing, just snippets of his day: Eating a Clif bar breakfast and reading the Bible, lacing up his boots and chatting before his first class, going to a bonfire with other lineman in training, and capping off the day with some Grand Theft Aut

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