I was always that tomboy type of girl that could hang with the boys.

I always knew that my grandfather was an electrician, but something that I discovered after starting here was he was actually an electrician for a ropery.

So I ended up following in his footsteps almost exactly.

A ropery is where we take metal wire and it's wrapped around and made into those big steel ropes that you see used on suspension bridges, mining.

They hold up communication towers.

We even send ropes to the Navy.

All of these reels here weigh about 20 tons each.

These are shovel lines for the mining industry.

And then the blue ones down at the end are for drag lines for the mining industry.

My skills and knowledge are in the controls of machinery.

So whether that be an actual physical push button or a button on an HMI, which is a human interface.

I also program programmable logic controllers, which uses ladder logic.

This is what makes a machine automated.

It's when you can hit a start button and the entire logic within the program will run the machine to the specifics that you want it to.

I just love the puzzle that you have to solve in order to make this logic work, to make the machine run.

I've been working here about seven months.

I'm starting to get into that rhythm and really know exactly what steps to take in order to be really productive within my position.

It can be intimidating at times.

You know, you don't know if people are questioning you because you're new at this or if it's because they don't think you're capable of doing it.

And a lot of it is just curiosity.

They want to know why a woman has chose to do something that mostly men choose to do and that a lot of women haven't chosen to do.

My fiance, he's an excellent carpenter.

He does a lot of renovation work and we started renovating our own home.

So I got to see that firsthand.

And then we have three children.

Our eldest, Max, he's ten.

And then I have a daughter who's nine, Mila.

And then our youngest is Vera and she's four.

My initial thinking was that I would be a residential electrician.

And I did that while I was in school.

And when I realized that there was a lot of opportunities, especially in this area, going in the industrial direction, you are capable of making more money than you would be staying within the residential realm.

Don't be afraid to say, I don't know.

That can be hard for me because I'm someone who wants to be the best at what I do.

I'm getting there.

It's been a really great team building type of environment.

I really enjoy the team that I get to work with here.

And I'm not afraid to admit that I have growth and learning to do in this field.

It adds it to the list of this is what I'm going to look into next.