The tallest tower I ever climbed when I was in the electrician biz was about 30 feet tall -- a mere tad of a tower, *only* three stories tall. There was a light on top of it that wasn't working, and it was my job to fix it. Even that teeny tower scared me shitless and was one reason I decided to go to college and get my Computer Science degree.
These guys, however, climb thousand-foot towers *daily*. Talk about some dudes who clang when they walk. And whatever they're being paid, you can guarantee that it ain't enough. Not in a world where rich fuckup can pull in millions of dollars for being CEO's who run companies into the ground based solely upon being winners of the lucky sperm club. I probably make more money than these guys, and all I do is sit in a cubicle slinging bytes around, where the most dangerous part of the job is combatting middle-age penguin rotundity...
-- Badtux the Impressed Penguin
Literally can't watch this. It's been favorited for days, and I drag the slider forward and look at a bit, and drag it forward again and look at a bit... I squirm and pant and sweat. And it actually gets worse the farther along you go.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the deal at the top where they're literally on top of it all, climbing a mast about as big around as their legs that has metal spikes sticking out of it, is particularly shudder-inspiring. Though that's pretty much what the very short (30 foot?) mast that I climbed to change the light bulb on top looked like. And believe me, even 30 feet was enough to convince me to not make a career out of climbing masts :).
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