I'm a Salmon

This coming February will mark 5 years of my running IBEW Forums websites. I started out knowing nothing about the internet and even less about the mechanics of forums programs and thought I knew everything about the IBEW. I now know more than I could ever have thought possible about building websites and modding forums programs but...I've come to realize that I know nothing about the 'new' IBEW and its members. It's not the same IBEW anymore that I spent 35 years working under its umbrella.

I'm a salmon...swimming upstream to spawn...and die...dodging the fish hooks thrown in the water by all who would drag me ashore and eat me...or worse, and now, I've run into a dam without fish ladders. But, I'm too dumb to know it and I swim in circles day after day looking for the falls to leap and swim over the top of...but, they're just not there. And, all the while, the very life is draining from my body in this apparently futile effort. I've just come to the realization that the spawn of all my brothers and sisters from bygone days have thrown up this dam to block my journey. I think I'm doomed...I'm part of something that I don't recognize, I don't know, don't understand and probably never will. Can you spell 'white flag?'.