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Ah ah, no way. Jobs you could never do!
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Bruce235
·Anything to do with being in the North Sea in bad weather.
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hronists
·When I took the dog for a walk this afternoon there was a guy hard at work about 100 meters down the road and it made me think that there is no way I could do that.
I'do his job in heartbeat. There are a lot more boring things in life than installing telecom equipment 50m above ground.
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Charlemagne1333
·Anything to do with being in the North Sea in bad weather.
Having read a few accounts of those involved in the Arctic convoys during WWII tends to put one’s own ‘hardships’ in to perspective.
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noelekal
··Home For Wayward WatchesDiagnosing clients' diets from evaluating the contents of their septic tanks.
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arturo7
·Anything that requires sitting behind a desk everyday.
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MRC
·Anything that requires catching the 06:30 flight to Detroit on Monday and getting home around 22:00 on Friday. OK, I did that for a couple of years 👎 but not every week 👍
Going out on the North Sea in bad weather was in the name of "sport", not to make a living 🙄
Going out on the North Sea in bad weather was in the name of "sport", not to make a living 🙄
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Vercingetorix
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Pastorbottle
·When I took the dog for a walk this afternoon there was a guy hard at work about 100 meters down the road and it made me think that there is no way I could do that.
What is it for you?
The job of telco tech / tower rigger is a piece of piss (easy to do) I used to do it, that’s only a little one, I’ve worked on towers hundreds of meters high. I have a natural fear of heights, but you trust your training, preparation, judgment, equipment and your coworkers… it is they who will rescue you if you fall and are dangling in your harness.
We’re all qualified in rescue at heights. Basically the process involves the rescuer gets above you and absails down to you, connects your harness to theirs and disconnects your lanyard (the one you are hanging by) and you both a sail to the ground.
In the job it’s good to have a healthy fear of heights…….it makes you careful, no room on the tower for cowboys..
It’s funny that it’s not the the great heights that are the scariest….. I you know if you fall from them you know that all you will be is a sploge of strawberry jam on the ground, no it’s the lower heights that you might survive…albeit a total wreck, that’s the real scary part.
The great height are sort of abstract when you look down people moving about on the ground look me like ants scurrying around.
I don’t do that sort of work. It is the physical effort of climbing on a worn out body that’s the biggest problem for me, not the fear.
I also used to do high rise construction (steel erection, and elevator installation.)
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Syzygy
·When I took the dog for a walk this afternoon there was a guy hard at work about 100 meters down the road and it made me think that there is no way I could do that.
What is it for you?
My Brother did this kind of work for years and said it's one of the only careers where you try to work your way down! I'm with you, no way you'd find me up there...a ten foot ladder is about my limit. For reference, my Brother took this photo from what at the time was the tallest man-made structure on the planet.
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Pastorbottle
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Where there’s muck there’s money……… I seem to recall, that there was a bloke up in PNG, ( Papua New Guinea) who ran a septic tank pumping business, he change his name to Mr Shit, he even ran for government office under that name.
So it was possible that had he been successful in his endeavour to become a politician, he would be the first to ever have a name that aptly described the holder of the office!
So it was possible that had he been successful in his endeavour to become a politician, he would be the first to ever have a name that aptly described the holder of the office!
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Cenzo
·I had a co-worker who was in Customer Support and he was driving with his parents when they passed one of these trucks. His Dad said "aren't you glad you went to college so you don't have to suck crap for a living".
His response was "I am in customer support, I suck crap for a living every day!"
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ghce
·The job of telco tech / tower rigger is a piece of piss (easy to do) I used to do it, that’s only a little one, I’ve worked on towers hundreds of meters high. I have a natural fear of heights, but you trust your training, preparation, judgment, equipment and your coworkers… it is they who will rescue you if you fall and are dangling in your harness.
We’re all qualified in rescue at heights. Basically the process involves the rescuer gets above you and absails down to you, connects your harness to theirs and disconnects your lanyard (the one you are hanging by) and you both a sail to the ground.
In the job it’s good to have a healthy fear of heights…….it makes you careful, no room on the tower for cowboys..
It’s funny that it’s not the the great heights that are the scariest….. I you know if you fall from them you know that all you will be is a sploge of strawberry jam on the ground, no it’s the lower heights that you might survive…albeit a total wreck, that’s the real scary part.
The great height are sort of abstract when you look down people moving about on the ground look me like ants scurrying around.
I don’t do that sort of work. It is the physical effort of climbing on a worn out body that’s the biggest problem for me, not the fear.
I also used to do high rise construction (steel erection, and elevator installation.)
I was a Telco Radio engineer for many years but I had zero head for heights, any thing above 10 foot above the ground would instill fear. That fear would come and go depending on the day, sometimes I could get 50 feet or more up with out problems but that was a trap, once up at that height it might be fine but then the fear component might return and you would find you couldn't get down again.
So being a Rigger is one job I can never do.
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Walrus
·@Mad Dog i meant to ask on the picture of that cool cloud you posted from which may have your cockpit. I went skydiving a couple times (I’ll never do it again) I think we were at around 16,000 ft or so. I have a certificate somewhere so that is a rough estimate.
Are you trained to avoid clouds when possible or is it routinely something you do. I have a “thing” for clouds but I enjoy being on the ground looking up at them.
Not sure if this is a dumb question but it’s certainly not the first nor last I will ask. I think piloting must be one of the more amazing occupation around. Ok feel free to skip the question if it’s too broad or dumb. I am “cloud and plane spotting” at the moment.
Stay safe, I got myself a seikito today. Edit, apologies meant to put this in WRUW. I did work at some heights repairing machinery. I was surprised how quickly I’d bypass all the safety harness as sometimes you could get caught in harness or you would be a half a foot short from where you needed to be it was just 100’s of feet not any of the type of stuff posted.
Are you trained to avoid clouds when possible or is it routinely something you do. I have a “thing” for clouds but I enjoy being on the ground looking up at them.
Not sure if this is a dumb question but it’s certainly not the first nor last I will ask. I think piloting must be one of the more amazing occupation around. Ok feel free to skip the question if it’s too broad or dumb. I am “cloud and plane spotting” at the moment.
Stay safe, I got myself a seikito today. Edit, apologies meant to put this in WRUW. I did work at some heights repairing machinery. I was surprised how quickly I’d bypass all the safety harness as sometimes you could get caught in harness or you would be a half a foot short from where you needed to be it was just 100’s of feet not any of the type of stuff posted.
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We are trained to avoid certain clouds…like convective clouds. Non-convective clouds are OK to fly through…unless they are reported to cause aircraft icing or turbulence. We avoid clouds that paint yellow, red, or magenta on our radar…we also receive good cloud/bad cloud info from ATC.
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Walrus
·We are trained to avoid certain clouds…like convective clouds. Non-convective clouds are OK to fly through…unless they are reported to cause aircraft icing or turbulence. We avoid clouds that paint yellow, red, or magenta on our radar…we also receive good cloud/bad cloud info from ATC.
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Pastorbottle
·One of the companies I worked for had Boeing as a client, they asked me to work there, but I refused on account of not wanting the responsibility of so many lives dependent on my workmanship…….not that I don’t take all care when working or I’m not competent or confident in my skills……no I couldn’t live with the consequences of a plane full plummeting to the ground augering in, with the irrational thought that maybe somehow I fυcked up!
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