A Career on the Line: Kentucky-Native Shares His 13-Year Journey as a Lineman

At just 32 years old, Matt Edwards is already a 13-year veteran of the electric utility industry. Quickly establishing an exciting and rewarding career is exactly what inspired him to become a lineman in the first place.

“Like a lot of my high school classmates, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do,” said Edwards, a lineman for Paducah Power System in Paducah, Kentucky. “I had some interest in a lot of different things, but I was never a student who liked to study or wanted to go to a four-year college. I mainly wanted something where I could find a job right away, and enjoy the work I would be doing. I just wasn’t sure what that might be.”