Think your job sucks?
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Jobs can suck for various reasons, but one of the most often quoted excuses for hating work is that it produces anxiety. You boss might be a megalomaniacal cacodemon, your co-workers idiotic mouth-breathing teabaggers. Perhaps you have a performance review every month upon which your job hinges. Maybe someone’s life hangs in jeopardy if you do a poor job (surgeons). Maybe you are universally loathed by the public (tax auditors, collection agents). Maybe your job is just really disgusting (roadkill collectors, sewer cleaners).
It might be that you seriously take your life in your hands every single time you go to work. Like this guy.
Many would need a couple Xanax just to watch the climb.
Then there are people who do things like this for fun- just to relax or as a hobby. Take freediving– a sport that involves descending to ridiculous depths in the ocean with no fins or oxygen- on a single breath. The world record freedive is by New Zealander William Trubridge, who plummeted to 101 meters into the ocean depths- no doubt using his huge brass balls as ballast.
Here is an artistic interpretation of a freedive at Dean’s Blue Hole, Bahamas.
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I can not watch the first one..heights make me lean forward and pass out..not a good thing. The rest were a trip!
I was a bill collector for awhile after the shuttle crashed and was quite good at it. I gave people respect and a chance to pay in payments, never yelled at them and explored other options such as rebilling medical insurance or getting a loan and I was in the top three every month. The men hated me for that as they yelled, threatened, demanded payment in full and were too stupid to figure out how to rebill insurance or sending them to a loan specialist.
I also got flowers and thank you letters when people paid off their bills. 😉 My boss kept all the letters and cards and showed them to prospective clients that wanted to hire us.
Something to be said for treating people as people,showing them a little respect and letting them know you don’t consider them deadbeats.Especially with medical bills, nobody plans on being sick and working class people are embarrassed to have trouble paying their bills, I paid off medical bills I was gonna shine on cause the collector was understanding. You’re smart, Dusty.
Well, I have been there before too Oso, it’s not rocket science to be respectful to people on hard times, you get more w/honey than you do vinegar.
MH,
You were right about almost needing a xanax to watch that tower climb.Just watching it was giving me the same feeling I get when attempting to gaze over the edge of a tall building. Dang that was terrifying.
No, no and no; especially that climb up the antenna pole… Some years ago, there was construction going on next to my office, and I’d watch the guys climb up & down the crane without a harness on. I was on the 6th floor and they went up above me. Seemed a little risky, but it was probably regular construction-guy protocol – brass balls and all…
Ooooh, LOVE it, all of it, especially that free fall dive. Just imagine, the serenity just you and that peace. Also manages to get some climbing done, to come out of there.
I saw that last video and I’m still having a panic attack.
That is something that I cannot, in my wildest imagination, ever even attempt. I would not be able to get within 50 feet of that deep blue chasm. Never, ever!
Loved this post!