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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Jun 13, 2018 5:05:20 GMT
Climb towers? Gah.
I admit, I got a thing about heights, and had a hard time watching this video...
[br I have a reverse fear of heights. I'm good at being high off the ground (I mean I do have that feeling that falling could mean death but the fear isn't crippling and not on the forefront of my mind) but the world starts spinning if I'm at the base of a tall structure and look up. Even my beloved St. Louis Arch gives me that probablem. |
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Post by beren44 on Jun 13, 2018 6:04:23 GMT
The people who own the towers have a high demand for people to do the job, however there are not that many people who train to do it. That's what I meant. I understood you, caseyrook AKA Mechelle, and yes, haxemon, it is precisely both. In high demand, with low numbers of qualified/willing participants. Which raises the pay scale by a good margin. You can make a pretty comfortable living at it. And I applaud Casey for the sheer bravado. I've climbed tiny structures compared to towers, i.e. tower cranes 2-3 hundred feet. That alone is beyond the threshold of living or dying if things go foul. That being said, Casey, you say you have dyslexia in some form, and being on top of a 1400'+ tall tower is no place to become confused between, say, positive and negative. Stay on the ground and keep us entertained with your wit and insight! |
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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Jun 13, 2018 6:23:53 GMT
The people who own the towers have a high demand for people to do the job, however there are not that many people who train to do it. That's what I meant. I understood you, caseyrook AKA Mechelle, and yes, haxemon, it is precisely both. In high demand, with low numbers of qualified/willing participants. Which raises the pay scale by a good margin. You can make a pretty comfortable living at it. And I applaud Casey for the sheer bravado. I've climbed tiny structures compared to towers, i.e. tower cranes 2-3 hundred feet. That alone is beyond the threshold of living or dying if things go foul. That being said, Casey, you say you have dyslexia in some form, and being on top of a 1400'+ tall tower is no place to become confused between, say, positive and negative. Stay on the ground and keep us entertained with your wit and insight! There are guages tell you what elevation you're at, what direction you're facing, what the temp is, what the wind speed is, and more. And really, there are only two directions, "up" and "down". Tower climbing is something that I will do only if I feel like I'm in a position where I have to do *something* to make a lot of money ASAP. Because I'm not really, you know, the bank robbing type... |
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Post by haxemon on Jun 13, 2018 13:05:42 GMT
it is precisely both. In high demand, with low numbers of qualified/willing participants. Which raises the pay scale by a good margin. Don't want to get all semantic, but that means the people to do it are in high demand, not the job itself. But I get the intended meaning now and was just being cheeky in the first place. Mechelle - if you have the guts to do that job you've got more guts than I do by a long shot! |
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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Jun 13, 2018 17:11:07 GMT
it is precisely both. In high demand, with low numbers of qualified/willing participants. Which raises the pay scale by a good margin. Don't want to get all semantic, but that means the people to do it are in high demand, not the job itself. But I get the intended meaning now and was just being cheeky in the first place. Mechelle - if you have the guts to do that job you've got more guts than I do by a long shot! I think my brain is just wired wrong (or differently) and I honestly don't have proper survival instincts. I mean, I *do* experience fear but all my fears are more or less irrational and I've always been able to do things that are 'crazy' without much of a second thought. |
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Post by beren44 on Jun 14, 2018 4:55:26 GMT
The people who own the towers have a high demand for people to do the job, however there are not that many people who train to do it. That's what I meant. I understood you, caseyrook AKA Mechelle, and yes, haxemon, it is precisely both. In high demand, with low numbers of qualified/willing participants. Which raises the pay scale by a good margin. You can make a pretty comfortable living at it. And I applaud Casey for the sheer bravado. I've climbed tiny structures compared to towers, i.e. tower cranes 2-3 hundred feet. That alone is beyond the threshold of living or dying if things go foul. That being said, Casey, you say you have dyslexia in some form, and being on top of a 1400'+ tall tower is no place to become confused between, say, positive and negative. Stay on the ground and keep us entertained with your wit and insight! I was thinking more along the idea of the job which needs to be done once you get there..which usually involves electricity..if you decide to start robbing banks, be sure to practice your Mandarin..it got May and Bobbi out of a scrape.. 😁 |
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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Jun 14, 2018 19:01:00 GMT
I understood you, caseyrook AKA Mechelle, and yes, haxemon, it is precisely both. In high demand, with low numbers of qualified/willing participants. Which raises the pay scale by a good margin. You can make a pretty comfortable living at it. And I applaud Casey for the sheer bravado. I've climbed tiny structures compared to towers, i.e. tower cranes 2-3 hundred feet. That alone is beyond the threshold of living or dying if things go foul. That being said, Casey, you say you have dyslexia in some form, and being on top of a 1400'+ tall tower is no place to become confused between, say, positive and negative. Stay on the ground and keep us entertained with your wit and insight! I was thinking more along the idea of the job which needs to be done once you get there..which usually involves electricity..if you decide to start robbing banks, be sure to practice your Mandarin..it got May and Bobbi out of a scrape.. 😁 They actually cut the power to towers before they lay a finger on the bottom. If they didn't, the workers could get third degree burns from the intensity of the heat put off by the instruments/satellite/apperati up at the top. And if they have a 'live tower', odds are they weren't climbing from the bottom and came from a helicopter hovering overhead instead. personal-experiences-2308-5-terrifying-realities-my-job-as-cell-tower-climber.html That was supposed to link... |
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Post by caseyrook AKA Mechelle on Sept 28, 2018 15:22:02 GMT
I gave up and gave in and bought a PlayStation Vue package for $50 a month and well, I have over 40 channels plus my local stations now.
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